Tuesdays with Dorie: (a variation on) Cinnamon Raisin Bread from Baking with Dorie

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe is was Cinnamon Raisin Bread from Dorie Greenspan’s Baking with Dorie.   And yes, I’m just scooting in under the wire this wek – unexpected circumstances saw me BAKING this on the day before this post is due… In over 15 years baking and cooking along with Dorie groups, … Read more

Easy soda bread rolls on eatlivetravelwrite.com

Soda bread rolls

Are you having a tough time getting your hands on yeast these days? Me too. Luckily I had a small stash from “before” but will admit to shying away from recipes requiring it these days as I’m not sure when I might be able to get more. So crazy that of all the things people … Read more

Australia Day Fairy bread on eatlivetravelwrite.com

Fairy Bread for Australia Day

It’s Australia Day! Sadly here in Toronto where the temps have been hovering well below zero all week (hello -32˚C with windchill = even too cold for kids to be playing outside for more than about 5 minutes!), it doesn’t feel much like it (meanwhile, Australia has been sweltering in temps well over 40˚C this … Read more

Cherry chocolate and hazelnut fougasse on eatlivetravelwrite.com

French Fridays: Chocolate and dried cherry fougasse from My Paris Kitchen

This week’s  Cook the Book Fridays recipe from David Lebovitz’s My Paris Kitchen was a super simple fougasse, studded with dried cherries, chocolate and toasted hazelnuts. A fougasse is a type of bread traditionally associated with the south of France and is generally a savoury item (with olives, for example) Fougasse is meant to be … Read more