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…
Blog Archives
Stout Bread
Posted in Baking Tagged with: autumn, baking, beer, bread, fall, food, grains, stout bread, whole wheat
Bread and Horses
We had a lot of both this weekend. The great ciabatta bake day was a pretty simple affair. No-knead ciabatta is mostly about leaving dough in a bowl to bubble on its own—it’s the perfect lazy man’s bread. So bake…
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with: baking, bread, ciabatta, farm, horses, kids, thanksgiving, whole wheat
Wheat Bread Revelation
Sometimes it just hits you. And by ‘it’ I mean that brick a mason just nudged off a ledge with his boot forty feet above you. Other times, inspiration hits you. For me, inspiration comes from applying things I already…
Sourdough and Whole Wheat: Strange Bedfellows?
Last night I put together a batch of 40% whole wheat sourdough rolls and one batard. Because I’m a nincompoop I forget to get parchment paper so I had to lay down a carpet of flour to proof the bread. …
The Art of Making
Last night I got several hours free in the kitchen so I made things. To work with your hands at a simple task that creates food from raw ingredients, this is a pure joy for me. I made a new…
Food Should be Good
I suppose it’s all been building up to this. I’ve been trying to shop the outside of the grocery store. And buy more organic items. I’m reading The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan. Two nights ago we watched Food, Inc. …
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with: csa, farmer, food inc, milkman, omnivore's dilemma, tassajara, whole wheat
What a Difference a Day Makes
Baby Harbat is feeling better. Now she’s back up to shenanigans like wagging her finger at various things (parents, pieces of bread, dolls) and saying, “No no no!” Because she is such a gifted and advanced child, she is already…
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with: air conditioning, baby harbat, boboli, home depot, mythbusters, pizza crust, power tools, radial saw, whole wheat
Levi and Bread
I am so excited that Levi Johnston is weighing in on Alaskan politics! If somehow you don’t remember, he’s the dude who knocked up Sarah Palin’s daughter then did the manly thing and decided not to marry her after all. …
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with: levi johnston, multigrain, sarah palin, struan, todd palin, whole wheat
Ground
The new organic whole wheat flour arrived in the mail yesterday! Four five-pound bags, packed in crumpled pages of agricultural newspapers—ads for harvesters and large arm-removing equipment. It arrived just in time, as I’m making three multigrain struans and one…
Panem Nostrum Quotidianum
I can’t wait to get home and try this. It edged out cinnamon raisin as the best-smelling bread in the oven—wheat, honey, and grain caramelizing in a perfume that made my head spin. Here is my daily bread: whole wheat…
