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Comments keep rolling in each week for our Jim Lahey’s Basic No-Knead Bread post. Some of you are baking pros and others have never baked a loaf of bread in your life. Hundreds of you have tried this recipe and have come to the same conclusion: this is some seriously delicious bread. I would have to agree. I have baked dozens of these beautiful loaves since I first tried the recipe over a year ago.  My Dutch ovens don’t have a chance to gather dust (find affordable dutch ovens on Amazon here) and my husband is one happy camper. All...

For our family, summer means cookouts, and cookouts often mean burgers. We load our burgers up with lots of fun toppings so I don’t have the patience for wimpy burger buns! They need to hold up to a juicy burger with all the fixings. To me, store-bought burger buns just don’t cut it. They get soggy with the first gush of burger juice and squish flat on your first bite. Not to mention, they often don’t taste like anything at all, and they’re typically full of preservatives and other unnecessary ingredients. Bread should be hearty, nourishing, flavorful, and supportive. Not...

No-Knead Everyday Bread is a simple homemade bread that needs just 90 minutes to rise and doesn’t require special methods or equipment. (No Dutch oven. No bread flour.)  Many years ago (and again now, as we’re all adjusting to this socially distanced life) the internet fell in love with Jim Lahey’s No-Knead Bread. His is a bakery-style bread that needs 24 hours to rise and is baked in a Dutch oven to give it a thick, sturdy crust. The bread I bring you today is not that long-rise Dutch oven bread.  No-Knead Everyday Bread is, I dare say, a more...

No-Knead French Bread loaves have golden, crisp crusts and lightly chewy centers. This homemade bread needs just 90 minutes of total rise time and makes two rustic loaves. It doesn’t require special methods or equipment. (No bread flour needed.)  Yesterday I shared the basic recipe for making No-Knead Everyday Bread which is baked in a bowl to produce a single, round loaf of bread. Today, we’re using that same recipe to make these French bread loaves. These loaves just use a bit of flour for dusting and can be baked on a sheet pan. Whether this is your first time...

If you've exhausted all your banana bread ideas, it's time to switch over to zucchini bread. The sweet bread, which is very reminiscent of banana bread, packs in a bunch of veggies without actually tasting like veggies. Joanna Gaines's zucchini bread recipe is super simple and bakes up a delicious snack you'll definitely enjoy. I made Joanna's bread today following her recipe closely - I even made the same mistake she did in her YouTube video, using an 8-by-8-inch pan instead of a 9-by-9. Lesson learned: a 9-by-9 is definitely the pan you need! I also opted to leave out...