Bread

I’m not on the gluten-free diet, but gluten-free baking recipes that include interesting ingredients intrigue me.

So when I found this recipe posted by “痩せレシピ研究室” on YouTube that uses tofu and rice flour as the main ingredients, I knew I wanted to try it.

This recipe (Japanese) is not vegan, so I did have to veganize it, but it was a minor change.

This time I made two versions, plain and cocoa.

It’s not exactly like the bagel, but it has nice chewiness, and more than anything else, it’s tasty as what it is!

(If you exactly follow the recipe without veganizing it, the texture may be more like bagel’s. Next time I will adjust the changes I made to veganize the recipe to see if it helps improve the texture.)

I have a few more Mochi pictures, but I thought I would take a little break.

These are basic Boule loaves.

This was the beginning of my bread-baking.

I’ve baked these so many times, and I still love them.

It’s delicious simply with butter, but it’s also great to make a sandwich with.

I was very productive today.

Our bread section in the freezer was getting scarce, and one of the things on my today’s to-do list was bake some kind of bread.

Since the bagel got my husband’s vote (things are easy in the household of two), that’s what was baked.

I made two kinds today.

This one is cranberry apricot cinnamon.

This is what it looks like inside.

The other is the everything seasoning version, which is my husband’s favorite.

Which would you prefer?

I bought a package of fresh strawberries for something else.

After using some for that, I still had a lot left.

I could think of a lot of sweets I could use them for, but at that time we had too many sweets in the house, and I decided to create something different.

Pureed strawberries are in the dough, and the swirl was made with cinnamon and date sugar.

It smells like a strawberry heaven if something like that exists!

And I love the combination of strawberries and cinnamon.

This is not “sweet” bread, but it’s super flavorful.

I could have made two loaves, but I thought it would be fun to made rolls.

Remember that I just bought Star Wars cookie cutters.

The first thing I made was cookies, of course.

I had no other plans to use them, but when I was making bread last weekend, my husband suggested using it like a stamp on the Boule I was making.

I was not so sure if that would work, but why not trying, right?

Well, it kind of worked!

It’s not super clear, but if you look for him, you will definitely find him.

It’s actually pretty cool.

How often can you have a loaf of bread with the face of Yoda (actually two, one on each side)?!

I took a little break from sourdough bread making, but I still enjoy it when I do.

At this point I feel pretty comfortable with the process.

Every time my bread turns out good, it gives me confidence.

Italian herbs.

The bread smelled so good even when it was still in the oven.