Pav – the bread. Bhaji – the vegetables. Pav Bhaji – Popular Mumbai street food. Mumbai – The Business and Financial Capita of India. Mumbai – the city that never sleeps.
Kanel Snegle/ Kanelbullar (Swedish Cinnamon Snails/ Rolls – # We Knead to Bake 11
So another confession. I have never eaten a cinnamon roll. Yes! One more confession and one that I am not even ashamed to admit. I mean no disrespect to the American Cinnamon roll, but I just am not someone who can take in that much of sticky sweetness and then endure all that sweetness. I just don’t have a sweet tooth. My teen on the other hand loves the sticky sweetness but not the cinnamon so much. So we never had to have the conversation about making the American Cinnamon rolls in our house or buying them from the …
Soft Pretzels – We Knead to Bake # 8
Back to School month! You think you have it all planned and take it easy and suddenly it dawns on you that there is still so much to be done. You run like a headless chicken in all directions and that of course doesn’t make matters solve themselves, neither do you burn any calories running that way! So even though we bought the school supplies and uniforms before time, scheduled assessments and had most doctor’s and dentist appointments done with, the days leading to the back to school filled themselves with work – On their own! H*O*N*E*S*T ! Well …
Savory Kugelhopf – We knead to Bake #7
I have to admit, baking has taken a back stage at my home right now. It is after all Summer and we spend more time out than in. Grilling food and eating on the patio or packing a picnic is what we enjoy doing. So this Savory ( Savoury for the rest of the English world ) Kugelhopf came at the right time. I hadn’t baked in a while so it was a good project to work on. And since summer is also a time when I do tend to rise earlier than usual, making this bread early …
Bialy – Bialystok Kucken # Project We Knead to Bake – 5
Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are; they provide something steady, reliable and safe in a confusing world. Susan Libberman ,New Traditions Until I got down to baking this month’s bread, Bialy to me, was the mighty Bagel’s fancy cousin – stuffed with toppings and looking all pretty. It’s only when I started to read more on the bread & the history of Bialystok Kucken, that I started to admire and respect the human spirit and family traditions with a much greater zeal than I already did. To be able to recreate a home …
Hokkaido Milk Bread with Tangzhong
The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight… – M.F.K. Fisher, from The Art of Eating I think when MFK fisher said that she was thinking about the Hokkaido bread made with the Tangzong method. Well may be not really, but a girl can hope, especially when these were the exact feelings I had when baking this bread. The amazing tangzhong or water-roux method was introduced to the rest of the world by Yvonne Chen who wrote the book “Bread Doctor” in which she reveals her “secret” …