This year my family finally signed up for a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) share. Every Friday, our farmer wakes before dawn and drives to the Twin Cities and other communities to deliver the week’s bounty of organic produce. We pick up a half-share; above is just a portion of one Friday’s haul (though this year’s drought has […]
I’ve spent a lot of time this summer talking about how easy it is to do loaf breads on the outdoor gas grill, but if truth be told, this is the bread I make every day when it’s hot. Why? Because it’s crazy easy and fast. I go into the yard and do it in the […]
Today promises to be 95 degrees with humidity that makes my hair as wide as it is long! In other words it is WAY too HOT to bake in my kitchen. As you’ve probably noticed, Jeff and I continue to bake all summer long and most of it happens on our gas grills. With a […]
OK, it’s finally 85 degrees in Minneapolis, so we really have to get outside and do everything on the gas grill. Even Swedish Limpa Rye. Here’s how to do it, in a cloche, on the Grill:
A fruit pizza: The fruit sat on top of our basic non-enriched white dough (Master Recipe in the book, page 25), but I’ve been wondering whether we could get away with using brioche dough on a stone placed in the gas grill. I wasn’t so sure, because brioche dough is a bit finicky and prone […]
The idea of turning on an oven to bake a pizza is less than a thrilling one in the summer. I love to grill and with this heat I’ve been doing a lot of it. So, pizza: I pulled out my bucket of dough, rolled it out and loaded it up with toppings. Instead of […]
People kept asking us whether our very wet, stored dough could be grilled directly on the grates of a hot gas grill, and the answer is a very delicious yes– I stopped lugging my stone outside last summer. Read on if you want to see some highlights on how to grill the pizzas I made for friends […]
It’s the heart of summer now, and with Fourth of July entertaining on the immediate horizon (and super-hot temps all over the country), the grill is the place to bake bread if you don’t want to heat up the kitchen — and yes, it works. I’ve posted many gas-grill recipes over the years, because its such a great way to keep baking fresh bread […]
It’s almost Father’s Day and that might mean pulling out the grill this weekend and serving Dad up some serious burgers. Here’s a soft and delicious Potato Brioche Bun to serve alongside your favorite burger recipe, and it’s easy to put together. As with all my no-knead, refrigerated dough recipes, you can bake as little […]
This is the New York-style rye bread that got me interested in baking bread when I left New York for Minneapolis in 1987. It continues to be very hard to find–pretty much anywhere in the US. Why? It’s too complicated (and for commercial bakeries, expensive) to create the rye sour that defines the taste of […]