Tuesday, December 30, 2008

what's cooking wednesday - garlic bread

I made this bread a little while ago when I was still crushing hard on my breadmaker. Unfortunately it's been stuffed away back in the basement again. Only because my focus has been on cookies for the past little while. I imagine it will work it's way back upstairs since I used up my stock of pizza dough and I got a new pizza stone for Christmas this year.

Garlic Bread


Garlic Bread

1 3/8 cups of water
3 tbsp olive oil
1 tsp minced garlic
4 cups flour
3 tbsp sugar
2 tsp salt
1/4 cup parmesan cheese
1 tsp dried basil
1 tsp garlic powder
3 tbsp fresh chives, chopped
1 tsp coarsely ground black pepper
2 1/2 tsp bread machine yeast

Place ingredients in the pan according to manufacturers specifications. Select basic or white bread cycle and press start.

Recipe Notes: This recipe had me at coarsely ground black pepper. I love. Love. Love. Pepper. [aside] black pepper triscuits are the bomb![/aside]. So I really wanted to love this bread, but I didn't. Not this time around, but that was entirely my fault. I forgot to set it for a 2 pound loaf so it came out pretty dense. I'm going to give it a go again and hope for better results.




What is What's Cooking Wednesday and how can I play?

What's cooking Wednesday was born out of a desire to get out of that what's for dinner rut. Playing is easy, on Wednesday post a recipe that has been tried and tested by you and then pop over here and add your name to the Mr. Linky. When entering your name also add the name of the recipe in brackets and make sure you link to your What's Cooking Wednesday post and not just your blog's front page. And don't forget to link back here, the home of What's Cooking Wednesday.

So for example I would write Shan (Speedy Chicken Stir Fry) in the name section. For the URL section I would post this: http://shanrev.blogspot.com/2007/10/whats-cooking-wednesday-speedy-chicken.html

I'll let you in on a little secret. Much to Kaffy's chagrin, my WCW recipes are almost never made on a Wednesday. So feel free to cook and photograph whenever you have time and join us posting on Wednesday.

2 comments:

Leah said...

oooh yummy!!!

Shan said...

Leah - It wasn't bad. I'm hoping it's better the next time around.