Category Archives: Quick Breads

Week Twenty-Nine: African Breads The bread for today hails from Botswana, a country of cuisine unique in the Southern end of Africa.  Covered mostly by the Kalahari Desert, wheat doesn’t exactly grow well there; but bread made with imported wheat has … Continue reading →

Week Twenty-Eight: Breads With Nuts The last bread for this week is a quick bread, true; and I did say that I was trying to avoid those.  But this recipe is so good, I couldn’t pass it up.  The title … Continue reading →

Week Twenty-Seven: Try It Again, This Time With Feeling.   Okay, I am apparently denied the great virtue of impeccably turning out one of these breads.  Perhaps you remember, but I crucially neglected to use a nonstick pan the first … Continue reading →

Week Twenty-Five: Beer Bread Week! For my final beer bread variation this week, I wanted to test a hypothesis.  As you may have read yesterday, I determined that the main thing that makes beer bread so magically delicious is the … Continue reading →

Week Twenty-Five: Beer Bread Week! After tinkering with flavorings and non-alcoholic liquids, the next beer bread variation I wanted to try was to add some sourdough starter.  I used this recipe for the starter; but sadly, I finally had to lay that … Continue reading →

Week Twenty-Five: Beer Bread Week! Having determined yesterday that beer is a crucial ingredient in beer bread (for as-yet undetermined reasons), I decided to keep that ingredient unchanged (PBR ftw!), and instead mess around with the dry ingredients today.  I’m … Continue reading →