The secret of the elusive sourdough bread oven spring

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11 minutes reading time

Or how I learned how to bake artisan sourdough bread. Sourdough bread is the new black. Everybody wants to eat it and, more than that, bake it. Getting started can be difficult: making the starter, different techniques that go into making and baking the bread, and in the end, all you get is a flat piece of bread. What gives? These are my secrets to getting great oven spring in your sourdough bread.

I started baking sourdough bread a while back. I knew nothing about it, but I had a month at home recovering after surgery. The first struggle was to make the starter. It was winter, so my kitchen was rather cold, and I didn’t know what effect it would have on making a starter.

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Chicken Katsu Curry Recipe | The best Japanese curry

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5 minutes reading time

When you say Japanese cuisine, most people will think of sushi or ramen. There are so many more delicious dishes and sushi is not commonly prepared at home, and is usually something you’d go out for. Japanese curries are commonly made at home. You can even buy the easy sauce, but we’re gonna do it properly here. This is my recipe for chicken katsu curry.

My son Tom loves a variety of Asian cultures. Specifically South Korean and Japanese. So whenever I make a dish from either of those countries his face just lights up and he is so insanely happy. It doesn’t hurt that everyone else thinks it’s super tasty too.

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Triple cooked fries recipe – The truth of the crispiest fries

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4 minutes reading time

French fries are probably the ultimate way to cook potatoes. Unfortunately, it’s very easy to end up with limp and soggy fries when you do it at home. In the industry, it’s common to actually cook the potatoes by frying them at a medium temperature before they are frozen. Then you just toss them in super hot oil and crisp them up and heat the middle which is already cooked. This method takes it to the next level. This is the recipe for triple-cooked fries.

If you follow this recipe you will be rewarded with the absolute best and most delicious fries you have ever tried. The crispy, almost glass-like surface shatters between your teeth in the most satisfying way. In the middle of the fry is the softest, creamiest mashed potato. I’m salivating just thinking about it.

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Chocolate Sourdough Bread recipe – Terrific bread that’s pure joy

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6 minutes reading time

Sourdough has become a slight obsession of mine. I’ve noticed that it’s common for people who get into sourdough to get wholly engulfed in working their starters (Tamagotchi, anyone?) and baking delicious bread. Sourdough bread is much healthier than your average store-bought bread and a hundred times tastier. Typically these bread are your typical “bread and butter” types of bread, but I’ve started branching out into the world of add-ins and changing the flavor overall. This is my recipe for chocolate sourdough bread.

Sourdough bread is usually something you’d think of as tangy, not sweet, but this bread takes the whole taste experience in the other direction. The crumb is dark and chocolaty, with specks of chocolate pieces, sweet Cointreau-soaked raisins, and crunchy and very nutty hazelnuts. You get a cakey vibe, but it’s not sweet at all.

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Orange bundt cake with browned butter – Unique cake that fills you with love (of butter)

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4 minutes reading time

Bundt cakes are an American phenomenon inspired by the traditional European cake Gugelhupf. Bundt cakes. There are infinite variations of bundt cakes, but here is the absolutely best bundt cake recipe.

I follow an Instagrammer and baker called Maurizio Leo. He’s an amazing sourdough baker, but one day he posted a picture of a cake that had the most wonderful design. A sort of three-dimensional shape that I had never seen before in a cake.

He wrote in the comments that it was made by a company called Nordicware, so I went into research mode and I found their site and they had so many different options. I just wanted them all.

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