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…
Category: Yeast Breads
Breads using yeast
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…
Insalata Caprese Loaf
Baking for the letter ‘I’ left me pretty confused. The almost obvious choice was the Irish Soda Bread which has also been on my to-bake list for quite a while. But at the same time, I had decided on the bread theme for this month and the soda bread is technically not bread since it…
Hungarian Bread Ring
When I started making a list of dishes for this mega marathon I thought it would be tough to get dishes from letters like Q, X, etc but to my surprise I hardly found any nice bread for the letter H. I searched quite a bit but was not too successful. But, like all other…
Grissini
When you have a kid, you assume certain things, things like you can influence the kid’s behavior. The practical side of you points out that the influence may be significant in the first few years and less so as the years go by. But you expect to have some control on your kid. Then the…
Focaccia
When I was formulating the list of breads to be baked, I was wondering what I would bake for F since I already had written about the most popular ones – Fougasse and Focaccia. Then when I actually checked my blog, I realised that I had not blogged about Focaccia. I was shocked, to…
Estonian Kringle
I received a note yesterday from my daughter’s school asking me to dress and prepare her for a short speech detailing what she wants to be when she grows up. I was and still am very irritated by that note. People don’t know what they want to be even at age 25 and here we…
Bread Therapy 