Fresh basil from the garden, sun-dried tomatoes from last year’s harvest, olive oil from the sun-dried tomatoes, and fresh mozzarella – sounds wonderful, doesn’t it? Now put them all in a bread…oh my! I doubled the recipe to make one to eat and one to share. That worked very well. This bread can be a…
Category: Bread
Apple Bread
It is apple time again! One of my official shifts to fall is the change from zucchini bread to apple and pumpkin baked goods. The first treat of this year is Apple Bread. This recipe is from Mollie Katzen’s The New Enchanted Broccoli Forest cookbook. I love this recipe, the bread is moist and not…
Date Challah for Rosh Hashanah
Last year, I saw a post on The Smitten Kitchen for Fig, Olive Oil & Sea Salt Challah that simply captivated me. It sounded wonderful and looked absolutely beautiful. I decided to try a variation on it for the High Holidays this year using dried dates (since I still have so many from our trip…
Win’s Irish Soda Bread
Growing up in New York City, we all were Irish on St. Patrick’s Day, you never even thought about it, you just were. Even my Romanian Jewish father made corned beef and cabbage every year. My annual tradition includes my former mother-in-law’s Irish soda bread. I adored Win and am glad she is still part…
Butternut Squash Bread
As with the rest of my late harvest, many of the butternut squash were attacked by bugs while I was in California in August. But I still ended up with a few squash to play with. Today it is the Squash Bread recipe from Mollie Katzen’s Enchanted Broccoli Forest cookbook. This is one of my go-to fun…
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread
I love having daughters who like to bake. We are getting spoiled by hearing “what can we make?” whenever they are home. I have already shared posts of Arielle’s zucchini chocolate chip bread, this time it was Emily who came home and wanted to bake. Emily had just made pumpkin bread at school so she…
Cammy’s Cinnamon Raisin Challah French Toast
There is nothing better than challah french toast except, perhaps, cinnamon raisin challah french toast! And who better to make it than our own Top Chef, Cammy? See the recipe for the cinnamon raisin challah in the recipe for raisin challah. The bread is so flavorful, that a very basic egg dip can be used….
Cammy’s Honey Spiced Apple Muffins
For Cammy’s contribution to our Rosh Hashanah celebration, he made the apple cupcakes from Joan Nathan’s The Children’s Jewish Holiday Kitchen. We call them muffins because they seem better to us as a breakfast treat rather than as a dessert. The warm spices evoke thoughts of the oncoming fall. They are best drizzled with honey, but go…
Raisin Challah
We are preparing for Rosh Hashanah, so it is time to bake some raisin challah. Although I use a recipe I found years ago in Joan Nathan’s The Children’s Jewish Holiday Kitchen, I am not yet ready to tackle it with Cam. Look for that post in a year or two. I am perfectly capable of making…
Whole-Wheat Zucchini Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins – San Diego Cooking Adventures, Part 2
While I am here in San Diego, it appears that my role is to make the “treats” – smoothies, veggies to go with the wonderful fish Ken has been making, and now, muffins. When we went to the farmers market we picked up some zucchini from Sage Mountain Farm, then I ran to Sprouts to…
Andrea's Garden Cooking 