My name is Hayley and I am an addict. A bread addict, that is! I came across
this wonderful artisan bread recipe from
Simply So Good while browsing Pinterest months ago. I have quickly become the favorite daughter and favorite study group member. I seriously cannot stop devouring this bread. I followed her methods verbatim in the beginning, but I have quickly found out this recipe is very hard to mess up. It always seems to work out even if my dough seems extremely sticky. The plain recipe is fabulous and a great place to start, but these are some others I have tried:
- Lemon, swiss, and rosemary (this one is probably my favorite)
- Cinnamon, nutmeg, rasin, and brown sugar
- Pumpkin and sage
- Dark chocolate and dried cherries (want to try)
- White chocolate chip and cranberry (want to try)
- Pistachio and cranberries (want to try)
- Garlic and caramelized onions (want to try)
The pumpkin sage bread was the recipe I brought to my study group on Sunday. We all spent days reading about lipids, gastrin, and gastric diseases and totally deserved to treat ourselves with a carb overload. I picked up a HUGE bunch of fresh sage from the farmers market for $1 (along with two asian pears, YUM). Of course bread always needs butter so I chopped up a bunch of sage and made a sage compound butter. The next day I sautéed leftover sage pumpkin bread in browed sage compound butter and had croutons to go on my salad. As you can tell, I am a little obsessed and will try this again. The pumpkin sage bread was devoured before I got any pictures, but I do have pictures of the loaf of rasin bread I made a few weeks ago!
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| Dat crust. |
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| Ignore the bag of soil in the background, my porch is the only place with adequate lighting! |
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| I wish smell-o-vision was a thing. |
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| Sometimes I think I just use bread as an excuse to eat a lot of butter. |
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| Just for fun (and because I took them on the same day), my new old lady glasses. |
Side note- I think the sage from the market was slightly spider infested. Every time I pull it out of the fridge I end up with a little cooking buddy. And not the cute Rattatoulie kind. Please don't tell Adam. ;)
I am linking up to a few linky parties this week for the first time. I always LOVE scrolling through lists of linky parties and seeing the wonderfully creative things other bloggers are doing, so I have decided to join in on the fun! If you're stopping by from one of the linky parties, welcome to my little space in bloggerland! :)
