Smitten Kitchen Cookbook Round up

Olive oil ricotta cake was a big hit at work with recipe requests.

Chocolate chip brioche pretzels.  Butter and chocolate, what could be better.  It has inspired me to make more brioche.  Jacob and I would eat these for breakfast but Michael seems to have some rules about not eating chocolate for breakfast, silly man.



Happy New Year

We were invited to our neighbor's house this year for a Rosh Hashanah dinner party. We decided to make this honey challah that was featured in the LA Times this month. Michael (aka the bread man) made the dough and I braided it. It looked great and we were hoping it would taste great. The bread was a big hit at the party and we are going to make it again for our dinner with Michael's parents. In case you are in a baking mood, here is the link to the recipie.

http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la-fo-0922-roshhashanahrecipe1-20110922,0,6654780.story

Bread Man Strikes Again

Michael made this beautiful and tasty raisin challah. Jacob did the braiding. He is an expert braider and he shows his skills at camp in which the kids make a mini loaf on Fridays. We have a cook in the making.

The Bread Man

For those of you that don't know, my husband has turned into the bread man. Very often on weekends bread is baking in the oven. Sometimes he has varying degrees of success but this week he made the perfect challah. Jacob even helped, he braided the bread. Next weeks assignment, raisin bread.