Last night I started reading Peter Reinhart’s Crust and Crumb: Master Formulas for Serious Bakers. Now I know I’m ready to move to the next level. I’m ready to make better bread and do it the professional way. I…
Monthly Archives: April 2009
Aurora Bakery is Open!
I realized recently that making bread could be more than a hobby. I’ve been bringing bread into work and giving it away to our neighbors, and I always hear how amazing it is to have fresh bread. Looking at the…
Pool Guy’s Here
My weekly pool cleaning job has been getting more frustrating. I don't know if it's because it's windy or what, but the surface of the pool looks like a shag rug. There is so much pollen, dead bugs, leaves, dust,…
Sangue Nostrum
My cell phone rings yesterday and it’s the San Diego Blood Bank: “We see that you gave blood last year and we’re running very low on your type.” “How low?” “Less than a day supply.” “Can I come in on…
Night Night!
Bay Harbat now puts her stuffed animals to sleep. I don’t know how she learned this unless it was from seeing the teachers put kids down for naptime at school. Last night she spent fifteen minutes carefully laying down Kitty…
Bread, My Man
Last night I stepped into my zebra-stripe boots, cocked my purple fur cowboy hat to the side just so, and baked up some funky cinnamon bread. It was a stone cold groove, cat. Actually, I didn’t like James Beard’s…
Twittah
I'm trying something new with Twitter. Instead of twee status updates and space-filler, I'm now tweeting (twiddling?) in small morsels. Each morsel is something I could take into a full story, but somehow I like the little pieces, each one…
Summer!
Summer is here. Well, in Southern California at least. I went in the pool yesterday after very…slowly…lowering myself in. Men know there’s a border line when wading into water where things suddenly get serious. It only took about twenty minutes,…
Food, Glorious Food!
I used to work with a guy that had multiple food allergies ranging from wheat gluten to chocolate. He said he shopped the outside of the grocery store—produce, meats, dairy, and bakery. That way he avoided all the pre-made and…
