TWD White Loaves

Don't my White Loaves look gorgeous? I've never tasted a better piece of bread. I have always used a bread machine and those loaves can't be compared with what came out of my oven. So delicious. I loved the density too. I was able to slice it very thin with a regular knife. Sooo glad this recipe made 2 loaves, because the first one was gone in a snap.

I love looking at this photo. I think it was suppose to be browner.

Notice that white hook looking thing? It's called a dough hook thingy. It's been sitting in my cabinet for the past 15 years. I've never used it before this recipe.

Here's the dough rising.

Here it's rising again.

I can't wait to get started on the next project.

A Dorie Recipe

Pumpkin Stuffed With Everything Good, that's the title of this delicious looking meal from Dorrie's Around My French Table.

Mine looks like goo-over-easy.

It was delicious, and 3/4 of us ate it, and 1/2 0f us ate the next night. I had it for lunch, and brought it to grad school for dinner. Yum-bo

Some of what I used: sausage, chunks of bread, and cream.

It was so tasty.

A Dorie Recipe

As usual, I was listening to NPR on the way home, and Dorie Greenspan was on. I loved the interview. I immediately ordered Baking From My House to Yours from Amazon. I love that Amazon Prime.

Then I downloaded Around my French Table onto my Kindle Fire.

My first attempt at a Dorie recipe was on the front cover. That chicken dish with the crust around it.

Why show the book cover and not your food, you might say? Ahemm, not a pretty sight. First the crust looked like some kind of growth that needed to be lanced. Then, I used chicken breasts instead of a whole chicken. It wasn't a pretty sight. In the recipe, Dorie says to unlock the seal at the table so everyone can delight in the aroma. [The dough is circled around the top of the pot and the cover seals it shut.] The result was not what I expected. We all had a good laugh.

The taste? Let me just say it was delicious the next night, after I cooked it more and added a few more veggies to make up for the lack of chicken pieces and the resulting juices that weren't there.

I bought a whole chicken and will try again tonight. I'll take pictures this time.

Recipe #2.....the chocolate cake from the cover of the Baking Book.

Again, no photo. The cake looked beautiful, and tasted great. Still looking for a perfect chocolate cake. There are some small round shortbread cookies I want to try next.

I'm thinking of joining a group cooking the recipes in another Dorie book, Baking With Julia. Julia is of course, THE Julia. Two recipes a month and posting them. Why not, just add it to my growing list of things to do.