A Vegetable Stock PSA + No-Knead Oatmeal Maple Bread, Potato-Leek Soup & More Recipes to Make this Week


Hi Friends,

Earlier this week I made a pot of this roasted butternut squash and garlic soup. It's a very simple recipe calling for mostly three ingredients —butternut squash, garlic, and stock — and what I love about the recipe is this: in the time it takes for the squash and garlic to roast in the oven, the stock — the vegetable stock — can materialize stovetop.

If you've never made vegetable stock, I think you will be so pleased by the process and result: It's made with scraps! It's full of flavor! It's done in 45 minutes! Every time I make a pot of vegetable stock I am astonished by how well-seasoned it tastes in such a short period of time.

Note: This recipe does call for whole vegetables (onion, carrot, celery) as opposed to scraps, but if you are good at saving your scraps — onion skins, carrot peels and ends, celery butts, etc. — moving forward, know that you can make your stock entirely from scraps. Store the scraps in the freezer. No need to thaw before plunging them into the stock pot.


6 Recipes to Make this Week

Simple Potato Leek Soup

Flaky Buttermilk Biscuits

Pasta with Butternut Squash Sauce

Favorite Kale Salad with Shallot Vinaigrette

No-Knead Oatmeal Maple Bread

Chewy Chocolate Sugar Cookies

In Case You Missed It

Easiest Homemade Romesco (No-Peel Peppers 🎉) + Charred Broccolini = Heaven

Crusty Open-Crumb Baguettes

Crispy Miso-Lime Tofu (so many of you have made and loved this!)


A Spec I Wish All Flour Producers Provided

In last Friday's pizza newsletter I shared some thoughts on a spec I recently spotted on a bag of flour. I had never before seen this information shared. Read more about it here:


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Review of the Week

Teddie's Apple Cake

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"I made this on Sunday afternoon, planning to take it to a meeting on Tuesday. One little piece detached itself from the bottom, so of course I ate it. OH MY! SO delicious! Now I can hardly wait for Tuesday. I’m wondering if I should make another one tomorrow, just for me."

— Jane Y


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Hi. I'm Ali.

Bread enthusiast. Vegetable lover. Omnivore. If the kitchen is your happy place, you're in good company. Let's hang.

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