I bake bread.
I don’t have a culinary degree, a background in food science, or a published cookbook. I am simply a person who had the great fortune of being my mother’s son. She’s the one with the foodie bona fides. Betsy Oppenneer was a world-renowned author and baking instructor whose honey-sweet Southern charm and deep knowledge of the kitchen led Julia Child to call her The Pied Piper of Bread Bakers.
I am just a guy who came home from school every day to a house filled with wondrous baking smells, and a mom saying, “I need your help in the kitchen, honey.” I clocked thousands of hours in the kitchen helping her shape dough, testing recipes, licking spatulas. And then, when she started writing cookbooks, I became her editor, helping to shape her words. I assisted in her baking classes, ran the shipping portion of her baker’s catalog, created her marketing materials and helped book her flights. I have always been there in the background as she spread her love of bread baking.
And it stuck. I am a bread baker by tradition. A few years after my mom passed away, I started the Blue Bowl Breads food blog to honor her and the tradition of bread baking she passed on to me. Seven years on now, and I am still sharing her vision and passion for bread baking – except that it has rightly become my own. Through publishing recipes on the Blue Bowl Breads website, teaching zoom and in-person baking classes, and sharing fresh homemade bread with everyone I meet, I proudly carry the torch my mom handed me.
This blog is my testament to her passion.
My original recipes…
- Adirondack Pine Focaccia
- Anise Agave Bread
- Anise Lemon Pecan Bread
- Apricot Brie Boule
- Autumn Apple Walnut Bread (extended edition)
- Bacon Whiskey Bread
- Bavarian Nussstollen
- Beer & Buckwheat Bread
- Black Rice Olive Bread
- Blue Cheese Pear Bread
- Boston Brown Bread w/ Rum-soaked Currants
- Brie Rye Bread
- Buckwheat Maple Pepper Rolls
- Burnt Sweet Potato Bread
- Buttermilk Black Bean Bread
- Buttermilk Müesli Bread
- Caffè Latte Bread
- Cardamom Brioche
- Celery Seed Herb Bread
- Chewy Fruit & Müesli Bread
- Chia Farro Seed & Grain Bread
- Chipotle Cheddar Sourdough Bread
- Chipotle Fig Baguettes
- Cranberry Flaxseed Boule
- Dark Cherry Chia Boule
- Death Wish Black Bread
- Fruity Potpourri Bread
- Gluten-Free Mostly Morning Glory Muffins
- Goat Cheese Chive Bread
- Green Onion Cheese Bread
- Horseradish & Mustard Rye Bread
- Icebox Rolls: an Odyssey
- Jalapeño Cheddar Sandwich Bread
- Kañiwa Coffee Pumpernickel Bread
- Lavender Sweet Bread
- Lemon Pepper Bread
- Lentil Garlic Bread
- Maple Millet Bread
- Mark & Mom’s Panettone Recipes
- Milk Stout Blue Cheese Bread
- Millet Molasses Bread
- Mini Bagels
- Motley Multi-Seed & Grain Bread
- Not Too Sweet Chocolate Coffee Bread
- Olive Feta Mint Bread
- Opa’s Energy Bars
- Pepper Mango Masala Bread
- Pesto Parmesan Bread
- Raisin Curry Bread
- Red Wine Sourdough
- Roasted Garlic Asiago Cheese Bread
- Rolled Oat Pillow Rolls
- Saffron Currant Boule
- Sage & Seed Bread
- Savory Portobello Bread #1
- Savory Portobello Bread #2
- Seeded Coffee Braid
- Sesame Semolina Flatbread
- Spinach Dip Bread
- Sprouted Sunflower Seed Spelt Bread
- Stealthy Healthy Bread
- Stump City Red Braid
- Sumac Currant Bread
- Sun-dried Tomato & Onion Bread
- Sweet Cranberry Cashew Bread
- Sweet Dragon Fruit Claw
- Sweet Pepper Semolina Bread
- Too Many Bits Bread
- Turmeric Ginger Sourdough
- Turtle Bean & Black Pepper Crisps
- Za’atar Bread