I did it! I made bread! You would think this should not be a notable achievement for someone who runs a bread blog, but this polenta and rosemary sourdough is the first loaf of bread I’ve made since we brought Maple home more than 7 weeks ago.  Oddly enough, I think it might also be the first […]

The past few weeks my wife and I have been doing more and more weeknight cooking.  Normally we cook a few meals over the weekend and then eat them throughout the week.  It’s good to have a stock of quick weeknight recipes that you can easily put together when you get home.  This chicken is a […]

In the summer we make a lot of ‘kitchen sink’ type meals.  Every two weeks we get a box of produce from Frog Holler Farm and plan meals around it.  Inevitably after about a week and a half we still have lots of veggies and greens left but no concrete plans for them.  With the […]

Last fall after baking my way through a few Tartine books I decided it was time to get another bread book.  I had heard great things about Jeffrey Hamelman’s Bread for quite some time so I added it to my collection.  The book is more advanced and technique focused than others I have but is […]

2014 is just about in the books and it has been quite a year for Bakers & Best!  There were 97 posts shared with visitors from 130 countries (thank you!), including 36 new ones.  Let’s take a look back at all the fun, shall we?!

It has been quite a while, I think too long, since I posted a bread that wasn’t a sourdough.  It’s not that I only make sourdough but moreso that a lot of the yeast bread recipes I make are ones I’ve posted about before.  Just about every week I’ll make a sandwich loaf, either a […]