I feel I’ve come a long way since my very first ciabatta.  I’m not afraid of dough so runny that it must be corralled like oozing honey.  I’ve over-baked, under-baked, and dropped it.  Once I made 13 loaves of ciabatta…

I’ve said before that there’s nothing like fresh-baked cookies.  I would like to amend it to include icing fresh-baked cookies.  Break out the red sparkle corn syrup product! If I thought it was hard to prevent Toddler Harbat from eating…

Last night marked day #3 of Toddler Harbat’s routine evening meltdown.  It isn’t really possible to put into words what it’s like to see a walking, talking, and rational child into a screaming and flailing wolverine.  When I came home…

I am not crawling back to Team USA ciabatta, though I know it has its good points.  The no-knead easy-peasy ciabatta I made last night was…good.  My wife said it was as good or even better than the Team USA…

I’ve said it before, I’ll never leave Team USA ciabatta again.  I’ve tried other recipes and always come back to the Team, finding it has the best flavor, texture, and structure of any ciabatta.  And now I’m ready to be…

Toddler Harbat is experienced in many things.  Sleeping in a big girl bed is not one of them.  Each night we go in and find her somewhere unpredictable.  Maybe she’s got her feet on the pillow and her head jammed…

We are blessed to live so close to the beach.  From a narrow strip of soft white sand we can look to the Southwest at an impossibly far horizon on a bed of blue that stretches over 7,500 miles before…

Alert! [blows vuvuzela]  There is new site content! [bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzt] I figured since the site is called Handmade, I’d better pony up and make some new site areas for handmade stuff.  For visitors interested in bread, check out the Bread tab…