Living in Southern California I’ve had to give up on the idea of autumn as I experienced it back East: the echo of birds racing through a quickly denuding forest, the shush of crackly leaves up to your ankles, the…
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Stout Bread
Posted in Baking Tagged with: autumn, baking, beer, bread, fall, food, grains, stout bread, whole wheat
Back to the Things That Matter
Periodically you have to shut off the glowing screens, break out from your patterns of eating, sleeping, working, cleaning, and remember the things that matter. For the last few days we’ve been lucky to have family from Portugal in town. …
The Best Damn Cereal Ever
I like to think of myself as a breakfast cereal aficionado. Sure, I’ve had my youthful indiscretions with Honeycomb and Froot Loops, I’ve trudged through the lean times with generic Cheerios, and I’ve thrown money at tasty but fleeting boxes…
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Easter Braid
Sometimes Uncle F%#k-Up does something right. For Easter I was tasked with making a pretty bread. Since I am King Pretty I thought this would be a snap. Then my wife gave me a Martha Stewart recipe that showed…
Oh Yeah, Pizza!
It seems like a silly thing to forget, pizza. People are constantly talking about it, folks on TV are eating it, people who work at pizza shops are asked to make complex drawings on pizza boxes. It’s everywhere! So how…
Keep it Simple, Stupid
There’s this saying, “If it tastes good on its own, it’ll taste good on a pizza”. I haven’t had an ice cream pizza yet, or a Cheerios pizza, but I have my doubts. If you reduce pizza to its basic…
Be a Prince/Princess of Baking
“Oh, I can’t bake, it’s too complicated. I can hardly make toast.” NO! No excuses! If my five-year old daughter can make these little yogurt cups, you can too. And everyone will be impressed and you can proclaim yourself prince…
Ciabatta Sandwich Bread
I don’t know why I haven’t thought of this earlier: no-knead undead ciabatta dough poured into a loaf pan to make strong and holey sandwich bread. This weekend I was feeling lazy and uninspired to make the same wheat sandwich…
Baking Together
Last night I was making our weekly bread and Child Harbat begged me to help. She couldn’t wait to get her hands washed and the stepstool set up so she could work beside me, pouring the ingredients and mixing them…
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Hey kiddies, here’s a very short lesson in tempered glass and thermodynamics. When you are, say, putting a pizza in an extremely hot oven, please be sure your hands aren’t wet. Because just maybe a single drop of cold water…
