Mustard & Cheddar Loaf

So for the month of February, the British Bake Off International Challenge was to make a Mustard and Cheddar Loaf. I have had some successes with making bread in the past, so I was pretty excited about it. For our challenges, the admins of our little group are choosing recipes from “The Great British Bake…

Spinach Artichoke Dip

Eating out at restaurants is so difficult when you’re trying to eat low carb. You either end up eating salads constantly (not worth it) or being the guy who says “can you leave it off of the bun, please?” However, spinach artichoke dip, baby. That’s one thing that is diet friendly. Spinach, artichokes, cheese, cheese,…

Bread, you’re a star!

So just before Christmas, the baking blog I follow brought out this recipe for ‘Star Bread’. It was one of the most beautiful and complicated bread creations I’d ever seen. I really wasn’t sure I’d be able to pull it off. Basically, you make your bread dough like normal and then cut it into four…

January Baking Challenge

I’m so excited, guys. I completed January’s baking challenge for http://www.sallysbakingaddiction.com. A few posts ago, I mentioned that Sally does monthly challenges to help bakers learn how to bake new things and pushes us out of our comfort zones. This month’s challenge is bagels. Which means bread and yeast. Yeast can be really intimidating, and…

2018 in Review

My journey through baking started in June of 2018 and I used Instagram as the initial platform for tracking my progress. I had no idea the things I would learn along the way. I took a few webinars on how to photograph food and have been reading countless cookbooks by Paul Hollywood, Mary Berry, Sally…