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Bake Your Own 5:3 Bread

Michael Ruhlman — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:38:54 +0000

Bread basics on the rise and ready to go. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman.

Taking a bit of a break with Ma in West Palm—Goodbye, Cleveland grays!—but wanted to keep up the culinary inspiration via Donna's photos. Here a basic bread ratio of 5 parts flour to 3 parts water can be turned into pizza dough, flat bread, or even a braided loaf with kosher salt My Bread Baking App has more info or watch this video. Or have a look at these past bread posts: pretzels, multigrain bread, no knead bread, and challah. What is The Book of Schmaltz? Find out on Vimeo; then win a copy of the app from Edamam’s giveaway on Click to Continue Reading

Top Posts of 2011

Michael Ruhlman — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 22:26:49 +0000

Photos by Donna Turner Ruhlman
The economy struggled but cooking and writing about food sure didn't! My colleague Emilia and I decided to have a look at the most popular—or most viewed is perhaps the better phrase—posts from this site this year. By far the most exciting blog event of the year was Cathy Barrow's and Kim Foster's Charcutepalooza. What an amazing thing happened, and all because of that catchy hashtag on Twitter. This would not have happened without Twitter. Congrats to all who participated and who pushed themselves to cook in unfamiliar and often difficult ways! Special congrats to Cecilia, who blogs at One Vanilla Bean, and Peter, who blogs at Cookblog, as the two year's end finalists. Good luck to you both! Top ruhlman.com posts from ...
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Brioche Revisited

Emilia — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:54:17 +0000

Freshly sliced brioche. Photo by Donna
Michael has been traveling all around the United States promoting his new book Ruhlman's Twenty. Yesterday he had a long day in New York City where he appeared on the Martha Stewart Show. Michael sends his apologies, as he is nursing a wicked hangover. He returns to Cleveland today and will be appearing at the Fabulous Food Show this weekend. Please enjoy this favorite post of mine on how to Make Brioche. This post reminds you to begin preparing for the holiday season, which is quickly approaching. Original Post Date: November 30, 2010 December is the month for making brioche at home. It's the great holiday bread. Though calling it bread doesn't do it justice. Good brioche is like a cross between bread and cake. Hell, it's really ...
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What makes a great cooking app?

Michael Ruhlman — Thu, 26 May 2011 12:45:52 +0000

We've just released the Bread Baking App for iPhone/Pod/Touch
In the headlong rush to turn everything into an app, we have created amazing apps (shazam is truly amazing) and ridiculous apps (won't name names). The publishers of cookbooks and chefs are among them. Some publishers (S&S, my last publisher) are not entering the market; smaller more agile ones are (Chronicle, by chance publishing my next book). But what makes a valuable app? Since teaming up with Will Turnage, VP of technology and invention for the digital media firm R/GA, I’ve been creating apps for the iPad and smartphones and so have been thinking about how to proceed. They take a lot of time and work and so far, return on investment is spotty (except in the games department). My goal is to create only ...
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Bread Baking Basics App For iPad

Michael Ruhlman — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 14:51:34 +0000

Baking bread is one of the oldest forms of cooking, fundamental to civilization and satisfying to the individual soul. Is it because baking bread is so powerful that so many fear it, feel that it's beyond them? Baking bread is easy and and its pleasures are deep, not just for the one baking but for everyone in the house. The smells of baking bread are a natural analgesic and stress reliever, the bread itself nourishing. This fall, talking with my partner in digital productions Will Turnage (by day, Will is the upstanding VP of Technology and Invention at R/GA, a digital ad agency—I want to be a VP of Invention!; by night he's a digital Mr. Hyde), about what kind of App to do next, we looked to the iPad because tablets are ...
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Bread Baking Month: Multigrain Boule

Michael Ruhlman — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 16:03:37 +0000

Mulitgrain Bread/Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman
A multigrain bread recipe will open the new year for a reason. Will Turnage (aka @wubbahed), Donna and I finished and submitted to Apple last week a bread baking app for iPad. It's time finally to act on a fascinating email I got from a baker in North Carolina about bagel making. And Shuna privately but with her own inimitable force and clarity begged to differ on my take on English Muffins. And just yesterday a reader emailed, pleading for a good all-purpose gluten-free bread recipe. So it's now officially bread baking month here, when the cold and early darkness are subdued by a hot heart and hands-on kitchen work. (And yes, kneading should be a part of the process—it's part of the goodness of bread, ...
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