French bread is the ultimate juxtaposition of refinement and simplicity – just fresh ground flour, water, salt, and yeast. While making bread can challenge home bakers (part of the fun!), the purpose of our “cool control” technique is to eliminate heartbreak and make your baking endeavors easy and delicious.
Category: Recipes
The arrival of summer screams for the most classic of all backyard grillable foods – the burger! These buns are quick and easy (25 minutes) to make and keep well in the freezer. Golden brown on the outside, sweet and soft on the inside, these whole grain buns are the perfect base for a classic beef or bean burger, portabella mushroom or grilled chicken breast.
Challah is an ancient bread with sacred origins in the Jewish culture. Enriched with honey or sugar, and often topped with sesame or poppy seeds, this style of bread has become popular worldwide, inside and outside the Jewish community.
This type of roll was popularized by Italian American immigrants, who filled them with Italian-style cured meats, cheese and pickled vegetable antipasti (like giardinera). The original “Italian” sub inspired many variations that are now famous in their own right, like the Philly Cheesesteak (recipe below!).
These iconic pizza meets grinder bombs are a staple of the sub world. Fresh-baked Italian rolls, a fantastic tomato sauce plus your featured protein and melted mozzarella is a no brainer!
Once you master the simple and ancient process of nixtamalization, it’s easy to whip up your own tacos, memelas (see recipe below!) sopes, tamales, or pozole. Warning, once you have the real deal, there’s no going back to the industrialized imitations found all over!
This hearty, nutritious rye bread is delicious sliced thin and topped with cheese, spreads, smoked meats and pickled vegetables. Because of its density, it doesn’t go stale as quickly as wheat bread, so you can keep it on hand for a healthy snack.
This style of sourdough bread is what opened my eyes to the aesthetic and transformative side of bread making. It’s biology, chemistry, engineering, pleasure and adventure all at once.
Hot off the grilll, our duck pizza is bursting with fresh summer flavors, unctuous triple cream brie, peppery arugula and just the right touch of smokiness.
Our whole wheat pizza dough is the perfect canvas for pizza and calzones, from traditional favorites like pepperoni and cheese to creative combos like Pizza Mousakka and Duck with Brie and Seasonal Fruit.