Flour Power

“Tara’s a natural teacher, and this book reads as if she’s at the bench next to you, patiently articulating the core concepts and techniques of bread-making, as well as the joys and rhythms of the craft.”—Claire Saffitz, bestselling author of Dessert Person, from the foreword 80 easy-to-follow recipes and loads of know-how, troubleshooting guidance, and bread science intel for baking your best naturally leavened loaves—from sourdough whisperer Tara Jensen ONE OF THE TEN BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post Yes, you can make crusty, tender, bakery-quality sourdough bread—even if you’ve never baked before! Especially when you have a teacher like Tara Jensen (who taught both dessert guru Claire Saffitz and Southern-cooking evangelist Sean Brock) by your side. Tara’s friendly approach to technique and inspired flavors in more than eighty recipes for sourdough, rye, and whole grain bread will enrich both beginners and advanced bakers as they learn about the craft. With Tara’s guidance and supportive voice, she shares important lessons that cover all the technical bases—from learning about flour to exploring wild yeast fermentation and developing your (doughy) intuition. From there, Tara dives deep into the worlds of sourdough, rye, and desem, showing the true diversity of bread through recipes like Miche, Chocolate Beer Bread, and Mountain Rye. There’s even an extra credit chapter on making extra-flavorful Overnight Waffles, Cheesy Cheddar Crackers, and Sourdough Chocolate-Chip Cookies. With Tara by your side, artisanal bread at home is totally achievable . . . and fun!

The comprehensive guide to indulgent gluten-free dishes. Gluten-free food can be better than the real thing. In Gluten-Free Flour Power, food experts Aki Kamozawa and H. Alexander Talbot bring years of experience in professional kitchens—and countless hours experimenting on their own—to answer the call for delicious gluten-free food. Innovators at heart, Aki and Alex developed tasty dishes and easy tricks for boosting flavor at every turn. Starting with three all-purpose flour blends (including one suitable for soy, dairy, and corn allergies), they provide over 90 recipes designed to maximize flavor, texture, and taste in perfectly al dente pasta, crisp-tender buttermilk biscuits, flaky piecrust, and much more. With illustrated step-by-step instructions, Gluten-Free Flour Power is the indispensable cookbook for home cooks searching for reliable, satisfying gluten-free recipes.

“Kassem’s cakes are pure rainbow joy.” —Food & Wine In this wildly cheerful cookbook, New York bakery owner Amirah Kassem preaches the power of sprinkles. A modern-day Willy Wonka, Kassem reminds us that joy can be found in creating something delightful and delicious, that baking a cake for someone is the best thing in the world, and that, when it comes to cake decorating, any mistake can be covered in sprinkles (and everyone will love it anyway!). With twenty-nine different cakes—from unicorn cakes and donut cakes to cakes that look like reindeer, popcorn, spaghetti, and avocado toast—and packed with photographs, illustrations, and infinite ideas, The Power of Sprinkles is a book for bakers and cake decorators at every age and level. “One of the few figures in the food industry who can get the fashion set to eat their carbs.” —Vogue

This is the must-have baking book for bakers of all skill levels. Since 1992, Michigan's renowned artisanal bakery, Zingerman's Bakehouse in Ann Arbor, has fed a fan base across the United States and beyond with their chewy-sweet brownies and gingersnaps, famous sour cream coffee cake, and fragrant loaves of Jewish rye, challah, and sourdough. It's no wonder Zingerman's is a cultural and culinary institution. Now, for the first time, to celebrate their 25th anniversary, the Zingerman's bakers share 65 meticulously tested, carefully detailed recipes in an ebook featuring more than 50 photographs and bountiful illustrations. Behind-the-scenes stories of the business enrich this collection of best-of-kind, delicious recipes for every "I can't believe I get to make this at home!" treat.

Flour Power explains how a little-known kitchen appliance called the home flour mill can significantly boost whole-grain intake with just a few minutes of kitchen time: about three minutes for milling and a few minutes more to dump ingredients in a bread machine bucket. It also explains how home milling empowers home bakers with the capacity to select or create the ideal flour for any baked product. For example, with the appropriate wheat, delicious American-style light breads (similar to white bread but with much more flavor and nutrition) can be made in a bread machine without adding white flour or gluten. With the appropriate wheat, even the nutrient-free zone of desserts can be made more healthful. And by mixing the freshest (non-rancid) flours from grains like wheat, rye and corn, artisan bakers can learn what their hand-shaped loaves were supposed to taste like. In short, if you have a question about buying a mill, milling flour, or baking bread from whole wheat, Flour Power answers it.

Are you curious about all those nutritious flours you've seen at the store, but unsure about how to incorporate them into your favorite recipes? Or do you avoid them altogether because healthy foods usually taste like bark dust? You can add a great deal of nutrition to the foods you eat by simply switching to nutritious flours - it really is that easy. Tiffany Haugen's "The Power of Flour: Cooking with Non-traditional Flours" will answer all of your questions and guide you through this change with minimal hassle - and maximum health benefits! This exciting new cookbook incorporates healthy nutritious flours of all kinds into innovative and tasty recipes. Each recipe was tested numerous times on friends and family - with a special focus on picky young eaters - and was not included in this book until it was approved by the majority. "The Power of Flour" goes beyond baked goods to include delicious recipes for soups, salads, and simple home-made pastas. But, don't worry, your favorite desserts have not been forgotten. Tiffany also shares her amazing, taste-full recipes for decadent waffles, cookies, cakes, scones, pies, crumbles, layer bars, brownies, and more. You will be surprised at how moist and gooey Tiffany's desserts truly are, and with the added nutrition you can feel less guilty about serving them to your friends and family. Make the switch to nutritional flours now. This is one book everyone needs to add to their collection.

Alex Talbot and Aki Kamozawa, husband-and-wife chefs and the forces behind the popular blog Ideas in Food, have made a living out of being inquisitive in the kitchen. Their book shares the knowledge they have gleaned from numerous cooking adventures, from why tapioca flour makes a silkier chocolate pudding than the traditional cornstarch or flour to how to cold smoke just about any ingredient you can think of to impart a new savory dimension to everyday dishes. Perfect for anyone who loves food, Ideas in Food is the ideal handbook for unleashing creativity, intensifying flavors, and pushing one’s cooking to new heights. This guide, which includes 100 recipes, explores questions both simple and complex to find the best way to make food as delicious as possible. For home cooks, Aki and Alex look at everyday ingredients and techniques in new ways—from toasting dried pasta to lend a deeper, richer taste to a simple weeknight dinner to making quick “micro stocks” or even using water to intensify the flavor of soups instead of turning to long-simmered stocks. In the book’s second part, Aki and Alex explore topics, such as working with liquid nitrogen and carbon dioxide—techniques that are geared towards professional cooks but interesting and instructive for passionate foodies as well. With primers and detailed usage guides for the pantry staples of molecular gastronomy, such as transglutaminase and hydrocolloids (from xanthan gum to gellan), Ideas in Food informs readers how these ingredients can transform food in miraculous ways when used properly. Throughout, Aki and Alex show how to apply their findings in unique and appealing recipes such as Potato Chip Pasta, Root Beer-Braised Short Ribs, and Gingerbread Soufflé. With Ideas in Food, anyone curious about food will find revelatory information, surprising techniques, and helpful tools for cooking more cleverly and creatively at home.