Daily Unadventures in Cooking

A healthy and delicious whole wheat zucchini bread recipe flavored with rhubarb and ginger.

An Irish soda bread recipe which is made with browned butter, black pepper, and rosemary.

This 100% Whole Wheat Bagel recipe produces soft and delicious bagels.

Farmers markets are a great test to my self control, a test which I generally fail. Two weeks ago I hit up the Kitsilano Farmers Market and came out with peas, kale, 2lbs of cherries, zucchini, strawberries, raspberries, garlic scapes and one lone bay plant. Realizing how much fruit I had I was determined to [...]

I have had nothing but success with flatbreads on the grill. It always seems like a dodgy expedition to put a raw, dangly, piece of dough on a barbecue. (Will it fall through the grate? Will it stick?) But every time I have tried it, I have been so pleased with the flavour of the [...]

Walnut and Sage Focaccia, a quick and easy way to use up a surplus of sage.

This month the Daring Bakers made pizza. I don’t think I need to comment on this post, the picture says it all. Fantastic, absolutely fantastic. I did try tossing it once but I decided once was enough, plus the dough was very pliable. For my toppings I used pesto, spinach, feta and fresh tomatoes. Delicious. [...]

I love all my fellow bloggers out there. However, some days when I am attempting to eat healthy and I am reading through my feeds, all the cream based pastas and soups, cookies, brownies, pies and other delicious snacks are… distracting. So I have been reading all these fabulous healthy blogs along with my usual [...]

Since I am on a health kick I have been working on a whole wheat pizza dough that is easy, satisfying and filling. This is actually harder then it sounds. I started with a Mark Bittman recipe which was good but not great and modified it until it was too my liking. What I didn’t [...]

This is a crappy picture because I left my camera at home this weekend so I had to use my iPhone, but this bread is so good I simply had to post about it anyways. Simply put this is the best loaf of bread I have ever made, In fact that was the first thing [...]

One of the things that Rachael Ray does that I appreciate is her make-your-own-take-out meals. I have made a few of them with good success. (Before you stop reading Rachael Ray haters I did not do an RR recipe.) Here at the cabin we are very restricted by what can be cooked based on our [...]

So, either: My oven hates me and is deliberately moving the knob malevolently I am sabotaging my cooking sub-consciously. The oven is haunted I am an ass Why? Because when I went to check on my yorkshire puddings yesterday the oven was up at max again! I finally had made the yorkshire puddings and they [...]

FOoouuuuugasssseee….. Okay, fully just had to get that out. Now I promise I will act mature for another 100 words or so. This is another recipe out of Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day. I said I would run out and buy it and I did. In addition to this recipe I made two [...]

The infamous no knead bread is cool but I always found it kinda messy. You end up having to clean up dishes in multiple phases of the process not to mention your hands and the towels. Obviously too complicated for me. But I just tried a recipe from Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day. [...]

Never have I been so impressed by progress made. I have made bread multiple times before and formed baguette type loaves with French dough before too. However some of the techniques used by Julia Child made this truly superior to other breads I have made. Yes, thats right the Daring Bakers strike again! I was [...]

I made this awhile ago and just never got the chance to post. It is a Jalapeno Cheddar cornbread recipe from Ina Garten available here. This is the first time I had ever made cornbread and it worked pretty well, the only concern was that it was a little crumbly compared to those I have [...]

Trying to get it together for this month’s Daring Bakers challenge was really hard. I kept having it all planned out and then something would get in my way, not the least of which was our big power outage. So the days kept passing me by until this past weekend when I got home on [...]

Fresh herb bagels to be exact. I was all excited to have the house to myself Saturday night to really get into Harry Potter. But after about 80 pages I found it rather emotionally draining and felt the need to bake. Clearly my emotional attachment to Harry, Hermione and dear Ron is a little unhealthy [...]

I love épis de blé. I love the crunchy baguette-exterior plus the fun of being able to break off a piece and have your own section. It’s one of those silly things that I have been wanting to make since I have started making my own bread. Though this is my first attempt I feel [...]

After lots of focaccia, sandwich bread and artisan loafs I have finally decided to take the plunge and make sourdough. Armed with my new fabulous bread book – The Bread Bible – today I put together my starter. From everything I gather it is a labor of love that may fail but I think this [...]