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Jalapeño Cheddar Bagels

Posted in bread, breakfast, tagged , , , , , , on May 16, 2011 | 7 Comments »

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I love bagels. It has been said that the road to my heart is paved with bagels. This is quite possibly true. Well, bagels and cupcakes.

Cream cheese always weirded me out, and so I didn’t try it until my freshman year of college. I was headed back to school and my boyfriend at the time was flying with me. He got hungry in the airport and bought himself a jalapeño cheddar bagel with plain cream cheese. I was suspicious of the cream cheese, but after some cajoling, he convinced me to have a bite. There was no turning back. I ate half of his bagel, and would have eaten it all if he had let me. From that point on, I started eating way too many bagels (hah, as if there were such a thing as too many bagels). (more…)

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Caramelized Onion and Olive Rolls

Posted in bread, tagged , , , on September 27, 2010 | 23 Comments »

The smell of baking bread is a smell like no other. The only thing that might match the comfort and deliciousness of the smell that permeates your home as you bake bread is possibly the smell of cooking onions. If you make these rolls, your home will both smell like cooking onions and baking bread, all in the same day! The same one hour period even!

These bread rolls are delicious. Each bite has that savory sweet goodness of the caramelized onion and the satisfyingly tangy salty olives. It’s also one of the easiest bread recipes I’ve used. There’s less than an hour of total rising time, and less than 10 minutes of kneading! I shaped my rolls into these cute twists, but you could use any shape, even just simple rolls. I recommend using some extra caramelized onion and chopped olives for garnish if you’re going for a simpler roll shape, but they’re rather colorful rolls as they are, studded with olives and browned onion. (more…)

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Raspberry Oatmeal Muffins

Posted in bread, breakfast, dessert, tagged , , , , , , on September 11, 2010 | 21 Comments »

In college I used to treat myself to these mouthwatering raspberry oatmeal muffins that the coffee shop in the library sold. I usually try to avoid such coffee shop treats, knowing that they’re full of sugar and fat, but these muffins were too good to pass up. After graduating from college and moving from Massachusetts to Chicago I didn’t have access to either the coffee shop or these muffins. Eventually I had to try my hand at creating a recipe to replace them.

The recipe I ended up with is nothing like the ones I got in college. This muffin is actually a rather healthy muffin–they contain no refined sugar, there is no oil, and I use only whole grains. The sweetness of the muffin comes from the juice that the oats are soaked in, the fruit pulp that is used in place of oil and egg, and of course the raspberries themselves. Of course this means that my recipe is nothing like your traditional muffin, but you can eat these essentially guilt free (which is always a plus!). I hesitate to call the muffins a dessert, unless your sweet tooth is on a very low setting, but I imagine with a glaze of some kind these could make a good stand in.

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Braided Pesto Bread

Posted in bread, tagged , , , , , , on August 17, 2010 | 23 Comments »

I could write a long ode to the amazingness (yes, I did mean to use the word amazingness) of this pesto bread. But right now as you read this, I am probably basking on the beach in Spain or swimming in the Mediterranean Sea. And who wants to think or be complicated at the beach? Instead I will keep this simple and straight to the point.

When I found myself with a large bunch of lemon basil last week, a stroke of brilliance (if you will allow me to toot my own horn) came to me as I had the idea of making it into pesto, slathering it over bread, and baking it all into this wonderful concoction.

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