Category: breads and sweet breads

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breads and sweet breads

15 Amazing Homemade Bread Recipes

Who doesn’t love homemade bread?  It just puts store bought bread to shame, don’t you think?  Warm homemade bread is such a great comfort food.  Slather on a little butter and it’s just so…YUM!  Since I can’t think of anyone who doesn’t love homemade bread, I put together a collection of some homemade bread recipes for you that are just delish!  I reached out to some blogger friends for their favorites and they delivered!  I’m also going to share with you my secret for making seriously awesome garlic bread – no matter what bread you are using to make it!...

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breads and sweet breads

12 Sweet Breads You’ll Love

Today some of the best bloggers of the internet are sharing their amazing sweet bread recipes with us!  Aren’t we lucky?   Just look at these pictures and you will know you want to try these recipes!   Are you a huge bread fan like I am? I love breads of all kinds – regular bread, sweet bread, rolls, you name it!  (Probably why I have a chubby tummy! 😉 )  Which one of these amazing sweet breads do you want to try first?  Go on, then…click the links and check them out!       12 Sweet Bread Recipes...

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Crusty Garlic Bread

I use a recipe to turn a store-bought loaf of french bread into simply awesome crusty garlic bread.  It is soft on the inside with a wonderful blend of butter and garlic.   It’s a super easy garlic bread “recipe” (and much more tasty).  Whenever I make pasta there MUST be garlic bread to go with it. I don’t like to buy the pre-made store stuff because it ALWAYS is a disappointment.  Yuck. Anyway, here’s a quick little tutorial on how I make it: Crusty Garlic Bread What you need: 1 loaf french bread 1 stick butter, softened Garlic salt...

breads and sweet breads

My Husband’s #1 Breakfast Pick on Christmas-Kiefla

My husband’s family has some Romanian ancestry.  One of the family’s favorite holiday recipes is kiefla is a Romanian sweet bread filled with yummy pecans.  It is a Christmas tradition to eat kiefla in my husband’s family, so I guess I should not have been surprised yesterday when I asked him what he wanted to have for Christmas breakfast that kiefla was his reply.  🙂  I have eaten kiefla lots of times over the years, but this was my first attempt at making it.  I was a little reluctant because when it comes to making bread dough rise, I prefer...