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If you have your sourdough starter ready and want to know how to make homemade bread, today’s recipe is perfect for baking a wonderful loaf at home. This homemade sourdough bread baked in a clay pot is an easy recipe with spectacular results, thanks to the terracotta pot we’re going to bake it in. You’ll see just how soft the crumb and how crusty the crust turn out this way.

There are recipes that, when you try them for the first time, surprise you with how simple they are… and how good they taste. These buttermilk biscuits are exactly that: small pieces of dough, golden on the outside, tender and flaky on the inside, that are part of the most traditional cuisine in the United States.

If there is a waste-not cake that succeeds like few others, it’s Banana bread, which isn’t a bread nor does it use baker’s yeast, but it does include very ripe bananas. This loaf is delicious and very moist, keeps wonderfully for several days (if you’re lucky enough that it doesn’t get devoured at home), and is ideal for using up those bananas that, being so ripe, look like jam.

Sourdough is essentially a mixture of flour and water fermented with natural yeasts and bacteria found in the environment and in the flour itself (with no need for chemical yeast). When we talk about rye sourdough, we refer to this mixture, fed and developed with whole rye flour, which gives it very distinctive and valuable qualities for bread baking.

This homemade rye bread, made with sourdough, is the perfect excuse to turn on the oven. Once baked and after the proper resting time, each slice of this sourdough rye bread will be a full-on celebration. Delicious with butter, with honey or bitter orange marmalade; if you spread it with fresh cheese and top it with a slice of smoked salmon, you'll taste heaven in every bite.

Let’s make a mozzarella and pesto pull-apart bread shaped like a Christmas tree! Delicious and shareable, festive and easy to prepare with the step-by-step instructions I’ve included in this recipe.

Yes, I know it's summer and it's hot. I also know that just thinking about turning on the oven makes you want to fan yourself, but I assure you that when you try this roasted onion and garlic focaccia you'll forget the 250º C temperature it needs to bake at, because you'll want to make it again at the earliest opportunity. That's why I wanted to share this recipe today, despite being in the middle of a heat wave.

Whether you love spicy food or it's not your thing, today I'm going to tempt you with this delight in the form of cheddar and chili rolls, tender and warm they go down wonderfully. These slightly spicy cheese buns are the perfect excuse to gather everyone at home around the table. And if you prefer them without the spicy touch, you can omit the chili with complete peace of mind.

If you adore cinnamon rolls, with their delicious topping and intense flavor, this Pan cinnamon roll will feel like a dream come true. A cinnamon roll, wrapped inside another roll that is wrapped in a third, and finally wrapped in a fourth and last one, forming a large cinnamon roll, perfectly baked, generously covered with a wonderful cream cheese and butter frosting and rounded off with the aroma and taste of cinnamon. Could you ask for more? I don’t think a response is necessary!

The lack of time in daily life shouldn’t keep us from enjoying delicious breads. A combination that will undoubtedly help your gut and make breakfasts more enjoyable is this walnut and fig bread. It’s an easy bread recipe that yields a loaf with a soft crust and a delicious flavor inside.

The oil sweet bread or "pompe à huile" is a traditional bread from Provence, in southeastern France. Its texture is not as fluffy as brioche, but its flavor is unique and very aromatic. Although in its region of origin it is usually made during the Christmas season, I assure you it's worth breaking that custom and enjoying it for breakfast or as a snack at any time of the year.