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Katie’s Basic Bread Baking Techniques (or lack thereof)

January 19th, 2011 · 36 Comments · Do It Yourself

Pin ItI come from a long history of amazing bread bakers, believe it or not. My Busia (Polish grandmother, 100%!) raised nine children and made all of her own bread, well over 5 loaves a week. Maybe 9? She kneaded it in a huge bread pan at her feet while she sat on a stool. [...]

Seeking the Perfect Homemade Whole Wheat: Claudia’s Bread (no. 3)

January 18th, 2011 · 23 Comments · Recipes

Pin It When I first announced this series last summer, one of my readers eagerly sent her two favorite recipes my way. I tried both of them for our camping trips this summer as the sandwich bread or buns in my Family Camping Handbook meal plan. That means this was the very first recipe I [...]

Seeking the Perfect Homemade Whole Wheat: Essential Eating’s Sprouted Bread and Rolls (no. 2)

January 11th, 2011 · 22 Comments · Recipes

Pin ItTime for the second installment of “let’s watch the girl who doesn’t know a whit about bread baking try to figure out how to make the perfect loaf!” There were so many excellent comments on last week’s two posts (the introduction and first recipe) that I now have SEVENTEEN bread recipes on my list, [...]

Seeking the Perfect Homemade Whole Wheat: Sweet and Simple (no. 1)

January 5th, 2011 · 50 Comments · Recipes

Pin It Welcome to the inaugural recipe in the Seeking the Perfect Homemade Whole Wheat Bread series here at Kitchen Stewardship! The first bread recipe I’m going to share with you is one that I fiddled with in December, testing it a number of different ways to find out how flexible it was. I still [...]

Introducing Seeking the Perfect Homemade Whole Wheat Bread

January 4th, 2011 · 70 Comments · Recipes

Pin It My sourdough starter may suffer for this, but I’ve been testing out yeasted breads for you all lately. I’ve got a number of recipes up my sleeve and more to come, and only a few loaves that have turned out concave. It is my fervent goal to find the perfect homemade whole wheat [...]

Whole Foods for the Holidays: Breads

November 9th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Recipes

Pin ItAs you might imagine, we haven’t done much in the way of breads in the past 6 weeks at our house. (Why?) By much, of course, I mean zero. The only flour-based products I’ve baked have been sourdough crackers and homemade tortillas. Diana at a Little Bit of Spain in Iowa is hosting the [...]

Food for Thought: Katie Learns About Gluten

November 5th, 2010 · 86 Comments · Food for Thought, Science of Nutrition

Pin It Is gluten good or evil? I’ve received a couple emails just in the past week from opposite sides of the court on this one, and it just demonstrates how controversial and confusing gluten can be. The first asked me if it was a bad thing to add “vital wheat gluten” to whole wheat [...]