It is said, there comes a day in the life of every bread baker, when you make a successful sourdough. Finally that day is here for me and I have a beautiful bread for it. I tried making the sourdough starter thrice before and had to abandon it each time when the smell was too…
Author: Sowmya
Trying to get to the clearing in the maze of life
Rewena Paraoa
Rewena bread is a traditional Maori baked bread, known as Rewena Paraoa. The Maori are indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand. Paraoa is the Maori word for bread. The word rewena comes from the root word ‘rewa’, which is a potato. Rewena bread is made with fermented potato instead of yeast, which gives the bread…
Quick Bread – Beer Bread
I tried quite a bit but could not get a yeast bread with Q or maybe I didn’t look hard enough. So I decided to do a bit of ‘jugaad’ / compromise and do a Quick Bread from Q. Quick bread is any bread leavened with leavening agents other than yeast or eggs. They can be…
Pain d’Epi
This is another item off my bucket list. My bucket list, in a nutshell, is baking breads and adventure sports – bungee, sky diving, para gliding and the like. This bread was the first one I finalized on my list of bakes for this month. While I was baking this bread, the husband and I had another…
Olive Bread
I always find a reason to add olives to every dish. So when I had to decide on a bread for the letter O, it had to be olive bread. I found this amazing loaf which not only had olive oil in the dough but also olives stuffed inside. Truly, my calling. Olives are grown…
Nan E-Barbari
This bread marks a milestone in my baking life. I bought the book ‘Hot Bread Kitchen’ just by looking at this bread on the cover almost a year ago. Ever since I would glance at it every once in a while and sweep my hands over the images trying to feel the texture of the bread…
Montreal Bagel
We have touched the half way mark today in this mega marathon with 13 bakes done and another 13 to go. It is turning out to be a crazy, chaotic, enthralling and breathtaking adventure. For a long time, I was sure of baking Massa Sovada, the sweet bread from Portugal for today. But, as I dwelt…
Landbrot
My initial choice for today’s post was Lavash, the Armenian flatbread. But something did not feel right. It did not seem connected to the rest of the breads that I was baking. But I was also not able to find another bread to replace it. So with a heavy heart I decided to go ahead…
Khachapuri
At first glance, the name Khachapuri does sound like a chaat available at Chowpatty beach in Bombay, somewhere between sookha puri and pani puri. But probe further and you discover that it is a traditional Georgian bread filled with cheese. In fact, it is the national dish of Georgia. It is usually shaped like a boat…
Jamaican Hard Dough Bread
It is funny how there are certain things which disengage us very easily and others we never tire of. One such thing, for me, is slicing a loaf of bread. No matter how many times I have done it before, I get excited the next time I get to cut the loaf into equal slices. I get…
Bread Therapy 