Bread

When we visit Robert and Judy, we often get to sample Robert’s latest delicious homemade bread. Robert shared with me the NYTimes recipe he follows for no-knead bread. He uses this recipe(also...

Larry is harvesting figs by the gallon. In the past I’ve made fig pie, compote, and jam, and even dried figs. Yesterday I tried a fig banana breadwith a few tweaks: whole wheat flour, less...

Our pantry still has lots of oatmeal and almond butter from pandemic stockups. Looking for recipes to use up some of these ingredients, I came across these healthy almond butter baked oatmeal cups....

It’s lemon season! When the frost comes they go bad, so Larry is bringing in scores of meyer lemons and limes. After success with key lime yogurt, I got a craving for lemon cake. Larry said yes,...

Pat and Allen shared at least a dozen persimmons with us from their bountiful harvest, along with their persimmon bread recipe. Here’s a slightly tweaked, vegan version of their bread; turned...

Oh my, these are delicious and healthy. This recipe is adapted from my favorite Isa Does It cookbook to use slightly less sugar and a couple other small tweaks. This makes a dozen; consider doubling...

Our friend Judy shared this roti for two recipewith us, which just uses flour and water, and is very good! Munira adds some spice to her roti, and luckily, she shared her secrets with me in Whatsapp....

We like the Trader Joes Sprouted Whole-Grain Pizza Crust for this homemade pizza, but I wanted to make my own for a Greek meza (photos below) with Yannis, Merche, John, & Elsa. Mom made homemade...

Larry calls this “danger bread” because he can’t stop eating it 🙂 Ingredients Dry 3 cups whole wheat flour 1 tsp salt 2 tsp baking soda 1 cup walnut pieces Wet 3 medium bananas,...

Given our abundance of carrots, I decided to tweak my zucchini walnut bread recipe to make carrot muffins. I borrowed some ideas from the Carrot-Raisin muffin in Vegan with a Vengeance, replacing...

From Isa Does It, with a few adaptations to replace the coconut oil and applesauce with coconut yogurt, and reduce the sugar a little (it’s plenty sweet). And it’s a good opportunity to...

My mom’s recipe, with less sugar and whole wheat flour instead of white. Really easy to make, not overly sweet, and hard to stop eating! I like to make mini loafs to give as gifts. (Like for...

Mom’s easy recipe for zucchini bread, except with about half the sugar, using whole wheat flour, and with flax “eggs” to make it vegan (you can use regular eggs if you’re not...