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Best Ever Cornbread Recipes – Northern and Southern Style

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If you've been searching for the best cornbread recipes, your hunt is over. Gram Irene's makes a light and moist cornbread; Grandmom Murphy's makes a gluten free, southern style skillet cornbread that you can sweeten with a drizzle of honey after baking, if you're so inclined.

Both of these recipes are featured in my book, “Never Buy Bread Again – 20+ Homemade Bread Recipes“, now available in spiral bound print and digital formats.

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Easy Sourdough Bread Recipe from Starter, Plus Sourdough Starter Tips

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This easy sourdough bread recipe from starter can be made with your homegrown starter or a purchased sourdough starter. Whichever one you choose, make sure your starter is active before baking sourdough bread. Real sourdough bread requires an active starter to raise, since you don't add extra commercial yeast. Feed your sourdough starter 6-8 hours before bread baking. (Inactive starter can be used for recipes like sourdough cookies or sourdough crackers.) [Read more…]

Leftover Mashed Potatoes? Make Potato Bread

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Potato Bread Recipe Using Leftover Mashed Potatoes - easy to make, great sandwich bread. Recipe can be doubled, freezes well.

Quite often when I make mashed potatoes for supper, I end up with just a dab (less than a cup) of potatoes left – not really enough for another meal. So how do you stretch a small amount of potatoes into another meal sized portion? One option is chicken and gnocchi soup, another favorite option for our family is this easy potato bread recipe. [Read more…]

Is Commercial Bread Making You Sick?

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Commercial breads may be loaded with questionable ingredients to make them cheap and durable, but that doesn't mean you should give up bread completely.

Commercial bread is designed to be durable and cheaply mass produced. As such, it often contains ingredients that I prefer to avoid. Since you’re reading this post, I assume you might be concerned about them, too. The Commercial Bread Ingredients to Avoid list is an excerpt from my new book , “Never Buy Bread Again – 20+ Homemade Bread Recipes“.  [Read more…]

Mom’s Best Zucchini Bread Recipe – A Homestyle Country Classic

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Although zucchini noodles and stealth zucchini uses have become popular in recent years, mom's best zucchini bread recipe was a summer staple when I was growing up. I still make zucchini bread for my family – although now I sometimes use gluten free flour. The recipe is quick and easy, and you can use fresh or frozen zucchini. It makes two loaves, so you enjoy one now and have one to share or freeze for later. (Or, if you have teenagers in the house, simply watch both disappear.)

My husband and I like nuts in our zucchini bread and my youngest doesn't care for them. To make everyone happy, I sprinkle nuts on top of the loaves instead of mixing them in so he can dodge them if he likes. I usually mix some coconut right in the batter. The boys aren't huge coconut fans, but they like it in recipes like this and it makes the bread more filling. [Read more…]

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