We had these sweet potatoes hanging around, and we were getting tired of roasting them! Even though roasted sweet potatoes are one of our favorite side dishes, we decided this time to make bread. This is an altered recipe of traditional banana bread from La Petite Brioche. You can get crazy with this if you [...]
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Snowy Weekend Recipe: Sweet Potato Bread
Aired January 23rd, 2012 on Bread, Recipes and Superfoods.0 CommentsTastes like an English Muffin, and has the nooks like one, but it’s in a handy loaf shape instead! This English Toasting Bread stays much fresher than the typical muffins in our opinion. Try this recipe from the one and only King Arthur Flour. Only the best for you, Phoodies! It’s super easy to make. [...]
Solving Your Leavening Mishaps and Other Kitchen Quandaries
Aired November 23rd, 2010 on Authors, Bread, Chefs and Sweets.0 CommentsAre you a good cook, but a not-so-savvy baker? Do you find yourself pulling your hair out, and screaming behind the glass oven door, as you switch the light on in your oven and watch your muffins and cakes rise to nothing but sad-looking bread pudding? Once your precious batter is within the confines of [...]
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OK GO’s New Music Video, Featuring Stop-Motion Toast!
Aired November 13th, 2010 on Bread and video.0 CommentsOK GO has come up with another brilliant video for their song “Last Leaf” – autumn inspired, with stop-motion toast no less! This video was made in partÂnerÂship with SamÂsung NX100 iFn, ProÂduced by Shirley MoyÂers, with AnÂiÂmaÂtion art by GeÂoff Mcfetridge, ChamÂpiÂon StuÂdio. Apparently all 215 loaves of bread used in the making of [...]
Rybread Makes A Mean Egg & Cheese… Guess It’s Phoodie Breakfast Edition!
Aired October 17th, 2010 on Bread and Breakfast.1 CommentNot only do they have some killer sandwhiches for breakfast an lunch, which left me in a food coma, but the story behind Rybread is pretty cool too. It all started with Ryan losing his job in the architecture profession… of course. But then realizing that he had no commitments, he and his girlfriend decided [...]
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English Muffin Men To Exec: Now That You Know All Our Secrets, You’re Ours Forever
Aired July 28th, 2010 on Bread.0 CommentsAh, the burden of knowledge. Thomas’ English Muffins wasn’t kidding when it said that its recipe (those mysterious “nooks and crannies”) was highly-classified (if you didn’t think that trade secrets were serious business, think again). Only seven people know all three trade secrets of the popular breakfast food. So when one of those seven, Chris [...]
Toast is one of those things that almost everyone likes. You don’t have to love it, but can you think of anyone that truly hates it? That being said, the other side of the spectrum actually does exist: People who LOVE toast. These people take that love to really weird obsessive levels. Wherever you may [...]
Happy Birthday, Metropolitan Bakery
Aired October 22nd, 2008 on Bakery, Bread and Celebrity Chefs.0 CommentsThe little bakery that began life with a shoebox for a cash register is celebrating 15 years of awesomeness in Philadelphia. Metropolitan Bakery has released a 15-month calendar with recipes from head baker James Barrett, and memories shared with everyday customers. Beyond their amazing foodstuffs, what sets Barrett and Wendy Smith Born apart from the pack is [...]
Fresh Video: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Metropolitan Bakery (But Were Afraid To Ask)
Aired September 30th, 2008 on Bread, Locavore and video.0 CommentsBack in June, the folks at Metropolitan Bakery were kind enough to let us see behind the curtain, which led us to love their bread even more than we already did. The Metropolitan gang are born educators, it turns out, and as we went back and looked at this bit of tape recently, we realized [...]
Two Things To Remember About Bread, Courtesy Metropolitan Bakery
Aired June 24th, 2008 on Bread and video.1 CommentRecently, the good folks at Metropolitan Bakery were kind enough to let us go where few ever do: Into their bakery, where wonderful and semi-secret things are done every day. We learned a lot — both about breadmaking as well as Metropolitan itself, now in its 15th year — and this is the first of [...]
