BREADS, PIZZA AND SAVORY TARTS

These breads, pizza and savory tarts are perfect for weekend baking.

Baking yeasted breads may be the most meditation-like thing you can do in the kitchen.

First, there's the magic of baking up something so light and delicious by using only a few ingredients.

But kneading yeasted bread dough from something raggedy into a soft, pliable, silky mound is calming. The rhythmic motions. Moving the dough around a work space. Watching how its elasticity changes over the space of a few minutes. I can feel tension seep out of me almost immediately.

Find breads (both yeasted and quick breads) and pizza dough here. I've also included some savory tarts in this section for you.