Olive Focaccia

Focaccia is relatively easy to make, as it requires no kneading and only a few simple ingredients.  Focaccia also travels well, and retains it’s flavor and texture when served at room temperature.  I made this latest loaf for a boating picnic, and dressed it up with black olives – a personal favorite. Ingredients: 4 1/2…

Guinness Millet Bread

A Guinness and millet based bread enhanced through the judicious use of molasses and chocolate – my latest foray into bread baking.  I was actually aiming to make a dark sourdough rye for my mother on Mother’s Day, but I could not find any rye flour at the local supermarket.  Which is, in my humble…

Sausage Bread

I took a Guinness based pizza dough, loaded it up with sausage, and coiled it into a bread loaf.  Not too shabby, although, next time I might leave it in its jelly roll form and bake it in a long loaf pan, instead of coiling it all together.  It took about two hours to bake…

White Bread

All week I have been fielding a craving for my Grandma’s homemade strawberry jam on her white homemade bread.  I have been chalking it up to an ongoing craving for Spring, which has still been eluding us in these snowy northern environs.  I generally do not make white bread, if fact, I can not remember…