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Breads, Breakfast/Brunch, Sweet Snacks

Cinnamon Swirl New Year’s Pretzel
(Grosse Zimt Neujahrs Brezel)

Happy New Year! Happy to have 2020 in the rear view mirror and I am hopeful that 2021 may be somewhat better. Here is this year’s Rendition of my annual Neujahrs Brezel (New Year’s Pretzel). A I have explained in the past years, in parts of Germany, it is traditional to bake these large, sweet (that’s not salt, that’s pearl sugar) pretzels. Like in some other places (France, Spain, etc), traditionally a coin or trinket is baked into the treat and whoever find it, has good luck for the coming year. In order not to have dental bills in the coming year (and seeing I am solo), I skipped the hidden coin, but I did “stuff” the inside with cinnamon-paste, so it’s actually a gigantic cinnamon roll masquerading as a pretzel. What’s not to love, right?
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1. January 2021
Breads, Breakfast/Brunch, Desserts, Sweet Snacks

Chocolate-glazed Banana Hazelnut Snacking Loaf

2020: THE YEAR OF BANANA BREAD. Unofficial … or was it Official? … Food of the Pandemic. Rivaled only perhaps by our sourdough starters. Who knew there would be so much banana bread in this year? I think that I might have ten new recipes this year alone. And I couldn’t help but make one more loaf just to shut this year down. May there be lots of other recipe in our futures and thanks for being there this year. Tomorrow will be just another new day and we can make and bake and share something new and different.
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31. December 2020
Breads, Sandwiches/Paninis

Honey Rye Crusty Sandwich Rolls

So, I am headed out on my travels today — I know, it seems so strange to say that these days, am I right? — and I have this extra special tendency to take a long a sandwich, just in case there is no food. I also bring along apples, but that isn’t nearly as fun to write about. At any rate, I made the rolls this morning and will be makeing a couple of sandwiches shortly. There is nothing like freshly baked bread!
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1. October 2020
Breads

Rosemary and Sea Salt Rustic Bread Loaf

Here is another one of my seemingly weekly bread experiments. This was actually a “fail” in terms of what I was trying to do: I was trying to make a long “snake” with the dough, wanted to swirl it back upon itself, and then curl it into a ball, to create a unique form with the actual bread, but that didn’t work and it just ended up proofing together again on the final rise. That is ok though, because it turned out really delicious nevertheless. This Rosemary and Sea Salt Rustic Loaf is going to make great dipping bread into olive oil. I also foresee a Grilled Cheese Sandwich in my future.
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15. September 2020
Breads, Dinner, General Reference/Tutorial

Harvest Grains Dinner Rolls

About ten days ago or so, I baked these Low-Knead Cast-Iron Crisp-Top Dinner Rolls. They were absolutely fantastic, but I was curious to see if a whole wheat or seeded (or both) variety would work as well and turns out, it did. I made them in the same cast iron braiser that I made the others, and the tops came up nice and crispy, the flavor is also great. Overall, definitely a repeatable recipe, though in all honestly, I did like the White Flour ones better. These are a recipe to add to the rotation for sure!
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8. September 2020