{ Easy Hearth Bread }

Submitted by Mal

King Arthur Flour Hearth Bread

(its also called 'the easiest loaf of bread you'll ever bake')

(this makes 2 loaves, when I make it I make the whole recipe, then freeze one loaf)

1 tablespoon (1 packet) active dry yeast 

1 tablespoon sugar 

1 tablespoon salt

 2 cups warm water (not over 110°F)

 5 1/2 to 6 cups King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour 

cornmeal 

boiling water 

 To mix: Mix together the first four ingredients. Let this stand until the yeast, sugar and salt are dissolved. Gradually add the flour to the liquid and mix thoroughly until the dough pulls away from the sides of the bowl. Turn the dough out onto a floured surface to knead. (This may be a little messy, but don't give up!) 

 Knead It: Fold the far edge of the dough back over on itself towards you. Press into the dough with the heels of your hands and push away. After each push, rotate the dough 90°. Repeat this process in a rhythmic, rocking motion for 5 minutes, sprinkling only enough flour on your kneading surface to prevent sticking. Let the dough rest while you scrape out and grease the mixing bowl. Knead the dough again for 2 to 3 minutes. 

 Let It Rise: Return the dough to the bowl and turn it over once to grease the top. Cover with a damp towel and keep warm until the dough doubles in bulk, about 1 to 2 hours. Shape it: Punch down the dough with your fist and briefly knead out any air bubbles. Cut the dough in half and shape into two Italian- or French-style loaves. Place the loaves on a cookie sheet generously sprinkled with cornmeal. Let the loaves rest for 5 minutes.

 Bake it: Lightly slash the tops of the loaves 3 or more times diagonally and brush them with cold water. Place on rack in a cold oven with a roasting pan full of boiling water on the oven bottom. Bake at 400°F for 35 to 45 minutes, until the crust is golden brown and sounds hollow to the touch. For a lighter, crustier bread, let your shaped loaves rise for 45 minutes. Preheat the oven and roasting pan with water to 500°F for 15 minutes. Brush the loaves with cold water, place in the oven and bake for 10 minutes. Lower the temperature to 400°F and bake for 10 more minutes. Remove from the oven, let cool and devour!

herb focaccia bread

My In-laws recently came home from a trip to Tuscany. They brought us home some amazing Olio Extra Vergine di Olivia, a.k.a. Olive Oil. Since I am only going to use it for dipping bread, I knew I need to make some special bread to go with it.
I introduce you to the yummiest focaccia bread ever!!

And if I could make it, you can make it! I have a lot of trouble over here with bread and, well, baking in general. But I figured out the problem!! My oven is retarded. I bought an oven thermometer so now I can adjust the temperature to the temperature I really need. Its been off by a good 25-50 degrees for who knows how long. Hallelujah!

Herb Focaccia Bread

2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon sugar
2 1/2 teaspoons instant yeast
1 large clove garlic, finely minced
3/4 teaspoon dried rosemary or 1 tablespoon fresh rosemary, chopped
1/2 teaspoon dried thyme or 1/2 tablespoon fresh thyme, chopped
1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
1/2 teaspoon dried basil
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 cup warm water

In a large bowl (or the bowl of a stand mixer), mix the flour, salt, sugar, and yeast. Mix in the garlic and herbs. Pour in the water and olive oil and mix until the dough comes together, by hand or with a dough hook attachment, if using a stand mixer. Knead the dough until it has pulled away from the sides of the bowl, about 4-6 minutes. The dough should be soft and pliable but not overly stiff.

Cover the bowl with lightly greased plastic wrap and let the dough rise for 30 minutes, until it is puffy. Deflate dough and allow to rest for 5 minutes.

Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F. Lightly grease a large, rimmed baking sheet and with your hands, spread the dough out roughly an 8″x10″ rectangle. Use your knuckles or fingertips to make indentations over the dough, about every 1/2 inch. Lightly brush dough’s surface with olive oil and bake for 15 to 20 minutes, until golden brown.

Immediately after removing from the oven, stir together 1 tablespoon olive oil and 1/2 teaspoon salt and brush over the surface of the hot bread.

Recipe from here

parmesan cheese knots

Easy and delicious! And I love rhodes dough because it rises so well. Me and rising have a love, no, hate relationship.

Parmesan Cheese Knots

12 Rhodes Texas™ Rolls, thawed but still cold
1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1 teaspoon dried parsley
1/2 teaspoon garlic salt
1/4 cup butter, melted

Roll each roll into a 9-inch rope. Tie in a knot. In a bowl, combine cheese, parsley and garlic salt. Dip each knot in melted butter and then in cheese mixture. Place in a sprayed 12 cup muffin tin. Cover with sprayed plastic wrap and let rise until double in size. Remove wrap and bake at 350°F 15-20 minutes or until golden brown.

open-face sandwiches

My mom recently gave me some fresh tomatoes out of Farmer Mel's garden and some fresh basil out of hers. She then told me to make some open-face sandwiches. She even offered to give us cheese. My mom always spoils us.

These delights were my dad's signature dish when we were little. If my mom was gone one night and he was on dinner duty, he would make these.
Another dish of his: buttered noodles with parmesan sprinkled on top and canned stewed tomatoes.
These always went together. These were common dinners in the Moser household growing up.
And now they have resurfaced. We just might be having buttered noodles for dinner tonight Kevin.
Yumdeliyumptious.



Open-faced Sandwiches

bread
cheese
sliced tomatoes
salt & pepper
basil (optional)

Put the oven to Broil. Place the cheese on the bread and place on a slotted cookie sheet.
Watch carefully, it only takes a minute or so. Then place the sliced tomatoes on top, sprinkle with salt & pepper and enjoy!

30-Minute Rolls

I wanted an easy recipe that I could use for pulled pork sandwiches for tonight. I found these on Sister Cafe, just tried them! Yummy and only in 30mins!! :) enjoy!

30-Minute Rolls (from Real Mom Kitchen)

submitted by Chelsey

1 1/8 cups plus 2 tsp. warm water

1/3 cup oil

2 Tb yeast

1/4 cup sugar or honey

½ tsp. Salt

1 egg

3 ½ cups flour

Mix 1st 4 ingredients and let rest for 15 minutes. Add salt and eggs – gradually add flour. Shape into dinner rolls, or use in your favorite recipe that calls for dough. After shaped, let rest for 10 minutes. For rolls, Bake 10 minutes @400 degrees ‘till golden brown.

{ Ashley's BBQ PIzza & Pizza Dough }

Submitted by Chelsey
This is so yummy! I don't know where I got the pizza dough recipe but it is an easy and yummy one! I got the BBQ pizza recipe form a good friend named Ashley! I made the pizza Florence,  Italy style in a square pan since I didn't have a pizza stone and it turned out perfect!

Tips:  (You might know this but it was new info to me) Use left over chicken for this recipe or buy a cooked rotisserie chicken. If you don't have the time you could also buy a pizza crust too! If you make the dough roll it out on parchment paper and then put it on the pizza stone! The parchment paper makes it so the pizza wont fall a part while putting it in and out of the oven and less mess

* Preheat oven/ pizza stone to 500 (My pizza stone broke so I didn't  use a pizza stone, but if you do then it turns on even better. still preheat either way)

Pizza Dough

Ingredients
1  1/2 Cup Hot water
2 teaspoons salt
2 Tablespoons sugar
2  1/2 teaspoons instant yeast
3-4 cups flour ( I used 2 cups Wonder flour, 2 cups white flour)

Directions: Mix  water, salt sugar,  and yeast. Slowly add flour until right constancy.  Knead for dough for 8-10 minutes. Roll out on to parchment paper and add Toppings



BBQ PIZZA TOPPINGS

Ingredients:
Favorite BBQ  sauce (Sweet baby Rays!!)
1 medium red onion, chopped (I used half)
Olive oil
Mozzarella cheese, grated
Chicken, cooked & chopped
* I added fresh basil and tomatoes too


Directions:
Saute red onion in olive oil and a little bit of BBQ sauce, until onion is soft. (I added fresh basil & chopped tomatoes to the saute pan) Pull BBQ sauce over the pizza dough, red onions, chicken and then mozzarella cheese. Bake  pizza at 500 for    7-10 minutes. enjoy

Feta buckwheat bread

Feta Sourdough Flat Bread

Submitted by Chelsey
Recipe by Chef Brad
The buckwheat makes this a wonderful rustic bread.

Ingredients:

1 cup sourdough

1 cup feta cheese

1 jar chopped pitted kalamata olives

2 cups hot water

2 tablespoons olive oil

1/4 cup sugar

1 tablespoon salt

2 cups Fresh ground buckwheat flour

1/4 cup Saf instant yeast

4 to 6 cups natural white flour

Directions:
Place all ingredients, except olives and feta, in mixer with half the flour and yeast going in last placing the yeast on top. Turn on mixer and add remaining flour until dough cleans sides of bowl. Knead for 5 minutes and than add the olives and feta, knead for one more minute and then remove and seperate dough into 2 pieces, roll out dough and let rise. Using fingers, make indents in top of dough and brush with oil and sprinkle with kosher salt and rosemary or herbs. Bake in hot 500 degree oven on preheated pizza stone until golden brown.

{ French Bread Rolls }

adapted from allrecipes.com
submitted by Chelsey for Mal

I thought I would post this since it goes with the BBQ Chicken Braid recipe that Mal posted earlier

*Makes about one dozen rolls or two loafs

1 1/2 cups warm water (110 degrees F/45 degrees C)
1 tablespoon active dry yeast
2 tablespoons white sugar
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 teaspoon salt
4 cups all-purpose flour
In a large bowl, stir together warm water, yeast, and sugar. Let stand until creamy, about 10 minutes.
To the yeast mixture, add the oil, salt, and 2 cups flour. Stir in the remaining flour, 1/2 cup at a time, until the dough has pulled away from the sides of the bowl. Turn out onto a lightly floured surface, and knead until smooth and elastic, about 8 minutes. Lightly oil a large bowl, place the dough in the bowl, and turn to coat. Cover with a damp cloth, and let rise in a warm place until doubled in volume, about 1 hour.
Deflate the dough, and turn it out onto a lightly floured surface. Divide the dough into 12-14 equal pieces, and form into round balls. Place on lightly greased baking sheets at least 2 inches apart. Cover the rolls with a damp cloth (or greased saran wrap), and let rise until doubled in volume, about 40 minutes. Meanwhile, preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
Bake for 12-13 minutes in the preheated oven, or until golden brown.

*Can freeze the rolls after baking – microwave on high for 2 minutes before serving.

Cream Biscuits

Kevin has been sick with food poisoning since friday so I haven't been able try any new recipes. Being the only one eating real food is not very fun. I ended up just eating PB&J sandwiches and leftovers for the past couple days, while watching him eat miso soup and chicken noodle soup. But last night he was feeling a little better, so I decided to make these biscuits that I had been craving. He ate these biscuits, so they must have been good!
They are super easy and super fast to make.

Cream Biscuits

submitted by Malorie

2 cups flour
2 t. sugar
2 t. baking powder
1/2 t. salt
1 1/2 cups heavy crea,

Preheat oven to 450 degrees

Whisk togethor flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt in a medium bowl. Stir in cream with wooden spoon until dough forms. Turn the dough out onto a floured counter, gather into a ball, and knead for 30 seconds.
Press dough into a cake pan, to make it into a big circle. Turn dough out onto counter and cut into 8 wedges.
Line baking sheet with parchment paper
Cook until golden brown on top, about 15 minutes.