Happy New Year and Walnut Biscotti

Happy New Year everyone!

I hope you all had a good holiday and started off your New Year with a bang.

As for me, I started it lazily. Take this Walnut Biscotti for one. I photographed this... oh, 3 moths ago.Had all the photographs ready to go on a draft post and it's been sitting there waiting for me to write something.

This biscotti recipe is from Mark Bittman's The Food Matters Cookbook. You can find the recipe here. I was a bit skeptical whether it will turn out because it contains no eggs or oil. But it was really good. It is more crunchy and dry than other biscotti that uses eggs/butter/oil but we like the crunchiness. Hubby especially loves it and he likes to dunk his piece in coffee.

Soft Pretzels

Now that it's getting cooler I am finding myself baking more on the weekends. This weekend I wanted to make these soft pretzels from Peter Reinhart's Artisan Bread Every Day. I think I am slowly baking through this book. This is my 7th recipe from it.

As with all the other recipes in this book, the dough requires overnight resting and fermentation in the fridge so I started it on Saturday. It is a simple recipe, just mix all the ingredients in the mixer.

Granola

I seem to be on a roll of making snacks lately. First there was the orange marmalade, then lemon curd, next hummus, and now granola.

I have never made granola before. Now that I have, I wondered why it took me so long to make this. It is so easy and good. It took 15 minutes to put together and 1/2 hour to bake.

I used a recipe that I found on The Kitchn. If you've never visited the site, you should. It has all kinds of recipes and tips and tricks that are interesting and helpful.