Bake with Mike

Last year, for the first time since the tradition started, San Biagio cancelled its historic Arches of Bread festival due to lack of funds.

Every Easter, a Sicilian Town Builds a Cathedral Out of Bread It's a competitive team sport.

In honor of National Cheese Day today, break out some of those bread cubes from the freezer and make some cheesy bread pudding, a great side dish. https://www.sourdoughhome.com/cheesy-bread-pudding/

Starters, Dutch Ovens, Knives and maybe more! https://www.sourdoughhome.com/4208-2/

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Just in case you haven't made rolls for your Thanksgiving day meal yet, here are a few recipes. https://www.sourdoughhome.com/dont-stop-me-now-im-on-a-roll/

We've talked about The Bread Lab's Approachable Loaf project a few times. Their goal is to make a bread that is, well, approachable for people who are avoiding whole grain breads. They identified a number of customer sticking points and addressed them. https://www.sourdoughhome.com/2021-04-03-a-new-approachable-loaf/

Lately I've been making lots of rye bread, my wife's favorite type of bread and not readily available where we now live. Much to our surprise, many other people here miss good rye bread too! Here's one of our favorites. https://www.sourdoughhome.com/roggenmischbrot-mit-sonnenblumenkernen/

It is a simple recipe and because it uses an absurdly large amount of starter, it is much more likely to rise than more advanced recipes, even if a beginning sourdough baker makes mistakes, or if their starter isn't really up to s***f. https://www.sourdoughhome.com/101-world-bread/

Does Refrigeration Really Ruin Bread? Bread doesn't just go stale by drying out: It also goes stale due to the retrogradation of starch. Don't know what that means? We explain it, then show how best to store bread so that you can eat it days on end.

Winter always seems like pancake time .These pancakes with warm maple syrup (or maybe ginger syrup) and warm butter seem like a great way to start the day when it's cold outside. https://www.sourdoughhome.com/2021-03-07-youll-wholly-flip-for-these-sourdough-pancakes/

This bread is an easy loaf, and it is the first loaf I baked that was nicely sour! It also is a nice soft sandwich loaf for those turkey sandwiches after Thanksgiving. https://www.sourdoughhome.com/simple-sourdough-pan-bread/

Have you ever had your dough over-rise? It happens to the best of us, not just the rest of us. So, whaddya gonna do?

Pizza Today magazine has a great article on this topic that will apply to other baking as well. For your enjoyment and edification -

Overproofed Pizza Dough: Deflate Gate - Pizza Today When is a pizza dough overproofed and how to fix overproofed dough. Signs of a blown pizza dough. What does overproofed dough look like. Pizza rises too much.