Category Archives: Breads

Oven-Roasted Tomatoes with olive oil and salt

Posted on October 2, 2012 by cuocaciccia

My friends, we have gotten way too extreme over here. I’m talking two months or so of homemade wild yeast starter breads. This has consumed the spare 4 and a half minutes that I used to dedicate to photographing for … Continue reading →

Posted in Breads, Breakfast, Dinner, Jams & Preserves, Jams and Preserves, Lunch, Tomatoes, Uncategorized | Tagged best egg tomato sandwich recipe, early girl oven roasted tomatoes, oven roasted tomato egg tartine, oven roasted tomato recipe | 1 Comment

Kamut Pumpkin Scones with Demerara Sugar Crunch

Posted on November 8, 2011 by cuocaciccia

In the past week there have been vegetable pot pies with potatoes, leeks, and carrots from our garden and flaky, buttery, homemade pie crusts. There was a wholly experimental, but scrumptious six-layer (!!!) strawberry cake (when three would have much … Continue reading →

Posted in Breads, Breakfast, Whole Grains | Tagged buttermilk pumpkin scone, kamut oat pumpkin scones, kamut pumpkin scone recipe with Demerara sugar, perfect pumpkin scones, pumpkin oat scones, pumpkin scone demerara sugar, whole grain pumpkin scones | 6 Comments

Multigrain Barley Flour Scones with Jam

Posted on September 27, 2011 by cuocaciccia

All summer Bob Marley has been singing to me. “Jammin, jammin, jammin.” First it was (the first batch of) strawberry jam. “Yea, I hope dis jammin’ gonna last.” I made lemon verbena-strawberry preserves, lavender-strawberry preserves, and just plain strawberry, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Breads, Breakfast, Jams & Preserves, Jams and Preserves, Whole Grains | Tagged barley flour scone, barley flour scone recipe with multigrain cereal, barley oat scone recipe, jam and scones, multigrain scone recipe, new dates with scones, Scone base recipe | 10 Comments

Every Day Multigrain Whole Wheat Bread

Posted on August 30, 2011 by cuocaciccia

Do you love whole wheat, multigrain bread like my family does? Would you like to make a loaf so tender with such a luscious crumb that the only thing limiting your perfect slice is a well-sharpened knife? I make a … Continue reading →

Posted in Breads, Breakfast, Vegan, Whole Grains | Tagged Homemade multigrain bread, multigrain bread, Recipe for multigrain bread, Vegan multigrain bread, Whole wheat, Whole wheat multigrain bread | 3 Comments

Focaccia to Dream About

Posted on June 22, 2011 by cuocaciccia

There are a lot of focaccia recipes floating around out there and many of them are pretty good. Others, are not so great. Some are just glorified pizza doughs overladen with toppings and others are drenched in oil…vegetable oil! Yuck. … Continue reading →

Posted in Breads, Uncategorized, Vegan | Tagged authentic Italian focaccia, focaccia recipe with mixer, long rise focaccia, perfect focaccia recipe | 16 Comments

Colomba di Pasqua–Italian Easter Dove Bread

Posted on April 22, 2011 by cuocaciccia

Natale con i tuoi, Pasqua con chi vuoi. “Christmas with your family and Easter with whomever,” goes the saying in Italian. Well, as I sit here typing this post, my house is absolutely quiet with everyone else napping and I … Continue reading →

Posted in Almonds, Breads, Dessert, Recipes for Egg Yolks | Tagged almond Italian bread, almond paste bread, colomba di pasqua, Easter bread, Italian Easter dove bread, recipe to use egg yolks | 1 Comment

Crumpets with Clotted Cream

Posted on April 5, 2011 by cuocaciccia

I thought about splitting this into two posts–one for the crumpets and one for the clotted cream. You see, this week I tried out a new clotted cream recipe to compete with my golden standby. I scrapped “The Great Clotted … Continue reading →

Posted in Breads, Breakfast, Jams and Preserves | Tagged clotted cream recipe, crumpet recipe, crumpets and clotted cream, raw cream recipe, what to do with raw cream | 8 Comments

Apple Oat Muffins with Brown Sugar Crunch

Posted on April 1, 2011 by cuocaciccia

Going to bed, I don’t know exactly what I am going to fix the next morning for breakfast. We have to be out of the house by 8am and I have early risers, so often we have some sort of … Continue reading →

Posted in Breads, Breakfast, Whole Grains | Tagged apple muffin recipe, muffins, oat flour muffin recipe, whole grain apple muffin recipe | 8 Comments

Perfect Ciabatta Bread

Posted on March 24, 2011 by cuocaciccia

I start this post by advising all of you not to buy lumber during the rainiest, stormiest day… nay hour of the year in San Francisco. I have started another vegetable garden in our backyard. We already have a couple … Continue reading →

Posted in Breads | Tagged baking, ciabatta bread, Ciabatta recipe | 9 Comments

Food Blogging in My Dreams Since 2006….

Posted on March 22, 2011 by cuocaciccia

I first stumbled upon food blogs during my leave from graduate school with my newborn son back in 2006. For a gal who reads cookbooks to bed and dreams of new ways to experiment with food, it seemed like a … Continue reading →

Posted in Breads, Breakfast, Dessert, Whole Grains | Tagged baking, banana bread, cinnamon olive oil banana bread, whole grain flours | 19 Comments