For Christmas this year we decided to make pizzas using those bags of grocery store pizza dough. There was an extra bag, with garlic and herbs mixed into the dough, that we used for cheesy breadsticks. For the recipe, I followed Easy Cheesy Breadsticks from food.com with some small adjustments, and holy cow, were they delicious. They came out of the oven just before the pizzas went in, and all but 3 were devoured before we had a chance to sit down for dinner. My version 1 bag of garlic herb pizza dough (plain white dough would also be great)…
Category: breads
Middle Eastern Mini Feast
After finishing Jerusalem: A Cookbook by Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi, I was craving Middle Eastern food. Specifically, I was craving the Middle Eastern food from my favorite restaurant for that sort of thing. They make this fried eggplant dish that is like candy, and these spicy cooked carrots that burn the tastebuds but are soooo tasty. But instead of running over there for takeout, I wanted to try cooking my typical order at home. Recipes Whole Wheat Sourdough Pita adapted from Skillet Baked Whole Wheat Pita (Using Sourdough) Hummus adapted from Lebanese Hummus Recipe From Scratch – Hummus b Tahini Fried Eggplant…
No-knead bread
Recipe NY Times No-Knead Bread Process notes used all purpose flour 18-hour resting time Results This is a gift, so I couldn’t very well tear into it myself, but it looks beautiful.
Flatbread
Recipe Homemade Flatbread from melskitchencafe.com Process notes used a combo of hard white wheat, hard red wheat, soft white wheat, and AP flour cut the recipe in half and made 6 pieces Results They were a tad thin, but tasted great! For some reason they were extra delightful with scrambled eggs.
No-knead bread
Recipe The instant classic, NY Times No-Knead Bread Process notes used all purpose flour Results Spectacular results — it’s unbelievable that a bread so easy to make would taste so good and have the qualities of artisan bread. Too bad it was processed flour.
