Ben Starr

The Ultimate Food Geek

Category: Recipes

  • Indian Stuffed Yeast Breads

    I ran across some recipe for yeast bread stuffed with curried veggies about a decade ago and over the years the recipe has morphed into my own.  My friends LOVE these, and it’s a great introduction to Indian food for those who are nervous about it.  These are individual rounds of crusty yeast bread stuffed…

  • Overnight Cinnamon Rolls

    Who on Earth can resist a warm, yeasty, sticky, sweet cinnamon roll fresh from the oven?  ESPECIALLY if there’s cream cheese frosting to smear on top? The problem is that it takes a solid 3 hours to get cinnamon rolls finished once they are started, and who wants to get up THAT early?  The solution,…

  • Easy Overnight Old-World Dutch Oven Bread

    Homemade bread is one of the most delicious and satisfying things you can make in your kitchen.  I’ve built a wood-fired oven in my backyard in pursuit of that supreme flavor and texture you get from high temperature baking, but you can get near-perfect results in your normal oven if you have a cast iron…

  • 1 Hour Buttermilk English Muffins

    I used to be grossed out by packaged English muffins.  In fact, all packaged breads give me the creeps.  I just can’t buy them.  If they’re not sitting in the open air on the shelf of a bakery, and I’m confident they came out of the oven that day, I can’t bring myself to buy…

  • Uncle Bill’s Aunt Hazel’s Hot Rolls

    This is actually the name my family associates with this recipe. If hot rolls are to be served at a family get-together, everyone knows that the rolls will be Uncle Bill’s Aunt Hazel’s Hot Rolls. Aunt Hazel was an extraordinary woman, one of those ladies who could do anything. Make breakfast on the wood-fired stove,…