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Adapted from Bread Toast Crumbs 11/15/2024 Update: I recently updated the recipe slightly in that I've upped the amount of flour from the start to 550 gram, and I've also, as a result, upped the salt. This higher amount of flour makes the dough slightly more manageable to work with and does not sacrifice any flavor. Notes: Scale: For best results, please use a digital scale to measure. Salt: I now make these with 15 grams of kosher salt, which is about 5 teaspoons of Diamond Crystal kosher…

If you love pizza with ballooned and blistered edges and a crisp but pliable crust, this is the pizza dough recipe you’ll come back to again and again. And it’s easy to make—the pizza dough is no-knead, made with 4 simple ingredients, and doesn’t require special flour. Video guidance below. Attention Pizza Fans: My new cookbook, Pizza Night, is here. NOTES: This recipe yields 4 rounds of dough. Recipe can be halved; dough can be refrigerated for up to five days. I refrigerate individual…

If you have Bread Toast Crumbs, this is essentially 2/3 the light brioche recipe in the book with the sugar cut back by a bit more. To create a warm spot for your bread to rise, turn your oven on for one minute, then shut it off. That brief blast of heat will create a cozy place for your bread to rise. As always: for best results, use a digital scale to weigh the ingredients. Water: Some people find this dough very wet and tricky to work with. If you live in a humid area, I would consider…

Alice Waters' Potato Gratin

Adapted from the King Arthur Flour Cookbook After attending a King Arthur Flour baking tour last fall, my friend Katie posted detailed notes on what she learned along with the recipe for Walter Sands’ Basic White (or Whole Wheat) Bread. She also explains how to do a “head-and-shoulders” shaping technique, which helps prevent air pockets from forming in the finished loaves.

Butternut Squash Lasagna — an old Gourmet recipe...such a good one!

This chickpea curry is an adaptation of this chicken curry recipe I learned to make while working at Fork in Philadelphia many years ago. In place of 8 bone-in chicken thighs, I've swapped in two cans of drained chickpeas. A few notes: I have only ever made this recipe with canned chickpeas, but if you wish to cook the chickpeas from scratch, here are two methods I love: Simple Slow Cooker Chickpeas (I make these often) and How to Cook Chickpeas From Scratch. Thai red curry paste. Maesri…

Adapted from the outdoor variation of the Neapolitanish pizza dough recipe from my cookbook, Pizza Night. Notes For best results, use a scale to measure everything. Flour: In most of my experiments I used King Arthur Bread flour but I also got excellent results and often an even more open crumb when I used Petra 0102 Flour, which is made from partially sprouted wheat. Salt: I use Diamond Crystal kosher salt, but you could use fine sea salt in its place. Again, for best results use a scale…

Notes: The bread: This is a sticky, no-knead dough, so, some sort of baking vessel, such as pyrex bowls (you need two 1-qt bowls) or ramekins for mini loaves is required to bake this bread. See notes below the recipe for sources. You can use a bowl that is about 2 qt or 2 L in size to bake off the whole batch of dough (versus splitting the dough in half) but do not use this size for baking half of the dough — it is too big. Peasant Bread Fans! There is a book: Bread Toast Crumbs, a…