The Salty Cook

Category: baking

  • Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

    Oh man, who doesn’t love a good, chewy, chocolate-chip cookie? These bad boys won’t even make it into the cookie jar. Ingredients Process

  • Sourdough Bread

    Oh hell yeah. Everybody likes sourdough bread. Well, a lot of people do. Some people anyway. I personally love it. There’s nothing better than a slice of home-baked sourdough bread. I like to toast it and slather it with honey and butter, but you do you. Note: Begin this process about 4 days before you…

  • How to Build and Maintain a Sourdough Starter

    The first step to making sourdough bread is making sourdough starter. Sourdough starter is essentially a “mother culture:” a living colony of yeast that you’ll use to leaven your sourdough. Some people can keep a starter alive for years; commercial bakers have sourdough strains that are who knows how old. The process is simple: take…

  • Cheesecake Followup

    I forgot to post photos of our cheesecake from last weekend. Here you go: This thing was a beast. Dense, flavorful…decadent. If you like a good cheesecake, you owe it to yourself to bake this recipe at least once in your life. It puts commercial cheesecakes to shame. And best of all, it’s all ingredients…

  • Tonight’s Dinner: Homemade Pizza

    I have always loved making homemade pizza. Pizza is probably my favorite food. You can prepare it in so many ways: thin crust, thicker crust, Chicago style. You can top it with anything. There are hundreds, maybe thousands of sauce options. There are hundreds of cheese combinations. You can add herbs and spices to the…

  • Chewy Lemon Cookies

    These lemon cookies have a chewy texture and a soft lemon flavor. If you want a more intense lemon cookie, check out our Lemon Drop Cookies recipe. Ingredients Instructions Did you like this delicious cookie recipe? Check out the Recipes Page for more!

  • Addictive Chocolate-Chip-M&M Cookies

    This recipe makes a small, but potent, batch of highly addictive chocolate-chip-M&M cookies. Be warned: these cookies will be devoured before you know it, so maybe plan to make a couple of batches. Ingredients Process Did you like this recipe? Check out the rest of our Recipes Page to find more!

  • Lemon Drop Cookies

    These cookies have a bright, lemony flavor and a lovely soft texture, which makes them short-lived in the cookie jar. You might consider making a double-batch and freezing half the dough for later — these cookies have proven to be tremendously popular in our house! Ingredients For the glaze: Process That’s it! I hope you…

  • Homemade Pizza Dough

    Pizza is definitely my favorite food. A tasty crust, a nice sweet sauce, melty cheese, and savory seasonings…it makes me salivate like one of Pavlov’s dogs just thinking about it. This pizza dough recipe is a family favorite — bake and enjoy! Ingredients Process Did you like this fabulous pizza recipe? Check out the recipes…

  • Ben’s Delicious Cheesecake

    This cheesecake is a real panty-dropper. It’s moist, flavorful, and hard to stop eating. Best of all, it’s surprisingly easy to make! NOTE: This recipe needs to cool overnight, so build in plenty of time when baking it. Bake it the night before you want to eat it. Ingredients Cheesecake: Graham cracker crust: equipment Process