When you're about to be on holiday cookie overload, it's nice to take a moment. Wrap your hands around a cup of freshly brewed tea or coffee and enjoy it with bread instead. Most breads are less sweet than cookies, if not savory.
Bread has a comforting texture, something homey and substantial to bite into.
And bread can even make a mini-meal along with a mug of soup for those rushed days of December. These recipes are the happy result of a baking disappointment Thanksgiving morning. The recipe was in a brand new cookbook. Well, it was the wrong recipe to try. The batter took forever to mix up and to clean up afterwards.