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May 8, 2021
2 min

Make Mom Some Cookies for Breakfast: Healthy Banana Oat Cakes

Most breakfast treats have large amounts of sugar in them and not much nutritional value. These Banana Oat Cakes are different. Yes, they do have sugar in them, but it's a modest amount, and, if you want, you can omit the step of dusting the tops of the cakes with sugar before baking them (although, the sugar on top does taste good!). The Banana Oat Cakes are soft, moist, and get much of their taste and sweetness from ripe bananas. Coconut also adds sweetness and richness

Dec 16, 2018
5 min

In the Advent Kitchen -- December 15

Broccoli-Bacon Salad Cheeseburger Bake Quick Brown Bread Butterscotch Nut Cake Tonight requires bread. So how about a simple brown bread made with whole grain? The kind you can eat plain, warm and crumbly from the oven. The bread goes well with a cheeseburger bake. Start the bread cooking while you put the casserole together, and then put the cheeseburger casserole into the same oven while the bread continues to bake. While the two dishes are in the oven, you can prepare

Oct 3, 2018
2 min

Air-Fried Sourdough Wheat and Oat Bread

I've finally come up with a better way to cook my sourdough bread--use the air fryer. The air fryer really is just a mini-convection oven, and so it's fantastic for baking sourdough bread. The bread comes out nicely browned with a slightly crunchy crust, and it's soft and moist inside. Admittedly, you can't bake a giant loaf in the air fryer, but, if you're okay with making boules, the air fryer is great. You can bake the bread in a 6-inch round cake pan, if you'd like.

Sep 17, 2018
2 min

Monday Sourdough: Cinnamon-Raisin Scones

Today's recipe is simple, fast, and perfect for using up the sourdough discard you may have from feeding your sourdough starter. Cinnamon-raisin scones are a little sweeter than biscuits, but have much the same texture, because the scones get their leavening primarily from baking powder rather than the yeast in the sourdough discard. That means you can make and eat them in about half an hour--no long wait for the yeast to do its thing. Nonetheless, the scones have a pleasa

Aug 1, 2018
2 min

Want a Flatbread? Bake Sourdough Naan

Below is a piece that ran in the Opinion section of the New York Times on Sunday. I'm attaching the link for anyone who thinks they're too busy to bake sourdough bread. You're not. The piece points out that making sourdough is "intentional," and that the final product, unlike much we do in life, is " tangible, edible and most important, useful." The author also notes that, "bread is real. It nourishes you." Here's the link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/28/opinion/su

Jul 17, 2018
3 min

Simpler Sourdough: No Knead Honey-Oat Bread

Why make life more complicated than it is? Resist the temptation to make the sourdough process a hassle. It isn't. Humans have been using the sourdough process to make bread for thousands of years--yes, "artisan" bread in the true sense--producing loaves of some sort in limited quantities often using techniques that have been passed down through generations. The "artisan" bread you find in bakeries may consist of flour, water, salt, but it may have additional ingredients,

May 23, 2018
2 min

Lower Sugar Breakfast Treat: Banana Oat Cakes

May 7, 2018
2 min

Monday Treat: Whole-Wheat Blueberry Sourdough Scones

These scones are simple to make but look and taste far better than anything you could find at the CoffeeBucks place. The scones are only slightly sweet. They get their flavor from blueberries, not excess sugar. Besides, the scones have a crispy, sugary topping that adds plenty of sweetness, tricking your taste buds into thinking sweet without the need to use as much sugar as many scone recipes do. The blueberry scones have a nice tang from the sourdough starter/discard as

May 5, 2018
1 min

Extra Discard? Make Whole-Wheat Sourdough Waffles

Weekends are a great time to feed your sourdough starter and use the discard to make sourdough waffles. You'll need to plan ahead. That means feeding your starter the night before and using the discard to make a sponge that sits overnight at room temperature. The next morning you add the remainder of ingredients and mix up and bake the batter. The tangy waffles make a wonderful weekend treat, and the extras (if you have any) are great to pop in the toaster for weekday mor

Apr 20, 2018
3 min

Easy Sourdough Bagels: No Boiling Required

A recipe for two-ingredient bagels is making the rounds of the internet. The recipe may have originated with Weight Watchers, but it's hard to tell. The instructions call for mixing a cup of self-rising flour with a cup of Greek yogurt for the dough, shaping the bagels, brushing them with egg (ingredient three, but maybe it's optional), and baking the bagels for about half an hour. The on-line reviews say the bagels are pretty good. Maybe. I liked the idea of skipping th

Mar 27, 2018
2 min

Sourdough Discard Recipe: Golden Raisin Scones

I fed my starters again, so I had a significant amount of discard to use. That was fine. Incorporated into my scone recipe, the discard gave my scones lightness, moisture, and extra flavor. The discard scones turned out puffy, slightly sweet, and I think better than the traditional biscuit-type scones. These discard scones are subtly flavored with cinnamon and orange zest as well as golden raisins and need no jam or extra butter to make them moist. They are perfect "as i

Mar 27, 2018
2 min

Whole-Grain Banana Breakfast Muffins: Use Up Those Malingering Bananas

Those bananas are not dead nor candidates for the trash, even if they don't want to be eaten. They are the makings of glorious, nutritious, eat-out-of-hand breakfast muffins. With white whole-wheat flour, oatmeal, and raisin bran, the muffins are packed with vitamins and fiber. Because they really are muffins, not cupcakes, the sugar content is kept in check. Sweet spices and maple extract make the muffins seem sweeter than they are, and the bananas contribute their natur

Jan 23, 2018
2 min

Better Than Panera: Whole-Wheat Blueberry-Walnut Bread

Panera has nice breads, but they're incredibly expensive. Plus, you have to stop at Panera or a grocery store and pick them up. And the loaves may have been sitting around on the shelves for quite a while. Why not make your own bread--fresh, soft, squishy, and as wholesome as you like? No added preservatives or other weird things? Making a loaf of whole-wheat blueberry-walnut bread doesn't take much active time, although the bread will need to rise and bake. The bread i

Dec 1, 2017
3 min

Knead in the Bowl Cheese Bread

I hate cleaning up the kitchen counter after making bread. So I don't. Instead, I make a bread that I can knead in the bowl I use to mix it up. Easy. No hassle. Great tasting bread. This isn't a particularly fussy bread, and it probably won't pass muster with America's Test Kitchen--not complicated enough--but the recipe does yield a soft, squishy, cheesy loaf of bread that will fill your kitchen with a yeasty smell while it bakes and your tummy with happiness when it's

Nov 27, 2017
2 min

Have Some More S'mores Cookies

My son likes marshmallows, so I decided to come up with a recipe that uses them. I found several recipes on line for s'mores cookies, but none really enthused me, as they all called for using graham cracker crumbs, which I don't generally keep on hand. Besides, graham crackers are just whole-wheat crackers with cinnamon and sugar. I should be able to make those, no? Well, maybe. It took a little trial and error, and I wanted a cookie, not a cracker. What I ultimately ca