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Bread Balls

Bread Balls

Jan 24, 2024 | Bread Tips, Recipes With and For Bread

Do you like to eat the bud end of your bread? Carlos doesn’t.  What to do with them? I collect them and freeze them, then use them when I have saved enough bread to cook something with them. Typical uses, of course, are bread crumbs or croutons. But there is...
A Healthy Choice

A Healthy Choice

Jan 10, 2024 | Bread Tips, Musings

What is actually healthy? There is so much information about the health benefits of our food, some of it contradictory, I get quite confused sometimes. I do have some answers though: For bread, healthy means whole grain flour compared to refined white flour. Whole...
Rescue Your Old Bread

Rescue Your Old Bread

Mar 2, 2023 | Bread Tips

Your bread is getting dry or stale, even though you might have done everything I suggested in my “Fresh bread is happy bread” blog post. But fear not, there are a couple of tricks to liven up your bread: Heat your bread!  I am sure you noticed that bread is...
Fresh bread is happy bread —and makes for happy people too

Fresh bread is happy bread —and makes for happy people too

Jan 4, 2023 | Bread Tips

Have you ever gone to your favorite bakery and ended up buying more than you can eat? Don’t fear, here are tips to keep your bread fresh longer. Of all the bread topics I can imagine writing about, this is maybe the most dry, but definitely not stale. While there is...