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My basic white bread recipe with the following additions:

1/4 cup sugar

1 Tbs. cinnamon

2/3 c. Craisins

1/3 cup Sunflower seeds

Powdered sugar glaze.

Used the recipe found here:

http://www.food.com/recipe/pretzel-dogs-448353

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Here's a yeasted white bread, my basic white loaf bread, I added one cup roasted white onions, 1/4 cup scallions, green parts only sliced thin, one tablespoon parsley, and a half teaspoon dried dill weed.

This recipe makes one standard loaf, put once again I quartered it for four mini boules, two to bake now, two wrapped in plastic for later use.

Proofed, egg washed, scored and saltd

With this kind of salt

Here they are, straight out of the oven

Here's the close up shot

Here's the crumb shot

This is a 100% whole wheat sourdough bread with lots of nuts and seeds mixed in (walnuts, almonds, cashews, pumpkin seeds and sunflower seeds).

I have recently taken a personal chef type endeavor, not like a gourmet chef, where I show up with wonderful ingredients and fix a 5 course meal. It's more of a I show up in your kitchen and fix dinner out of whatever I find in your kitchen. It's a hey everybody, grandma's going to come and fix us dinner kind of a thing.

http://www.finecooking.com/recipes/classic-croissants.aspx

Crust is a roasted onion sourdough with turmeric and quinoa

Sauce is home made

Toppings: Pepperoni, mushrooms, black olives, sweet red peppers, green onions, sliced tomatoes and a shredded Italian Blend cheese.

The recipe may be found in my previous blog.

I belong to several bread baking sites, and on one of them this was the Bread of the Month. The recipe can be found here: http://www.hearthbakedtunes.com/2014/01/pain-au-levain-with-caramelized-onions.html

To this recipe I added one tablespoon of turmeric, and one cup of pre-cooked Aztec Red Quinoa. It made a wonderful aromatic, colorful bread that had a mildly exotic flavor.

I made one large loaf, a mini loaf and a pizza. Good stuff, give it a try.

This is a tiger bread, an although the bread is not my best (I will try again!), I shaped the rolls as a crab to go with a crab salad. Just trying to have a little fun today.

A basic white bread with the addition of onion, garlic, cheese, green chili and bacon. An excellent breakfast bread when serving egg based dishes.