You can’t help but be smug. You can’t help but call your friends in frozen places. When you live in Southern California and it’s 75 degrees in January, you have to tell people. This weekend while my wife and I…
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The Fence Project, Continued
How long ago was it that I originally started on The Fence Project? Long enough that the brilliant orange/brown of fresh redwood has faded to dusty grey and a family of earwigs has taken up residence in the paper-thin slot…
Dinnertime Battle
Somehow I’ve fooled myself into thinking my return home from work at the end of the day will be a 1905s Norman Rockwell painting. My wife will be drying her hands on a lace apron daintily draped over a beautiful…
Outside Work
Glorious, glorious weekend. January in Southern California is really the best time of year. You are reminded why you live here and not in Michigan (no offense to Michiganders). By Saturday late morning it was up in the mid-70s with…
Fear Not, Bakers
Heat is a good thing. We like it when we put our palms to the fire after coming in from the wind-whipped snow. We like it when we blow on a spoonful of split pea soup with ham before gulping…
What Children Don’t Like
Where am I, now three-plus years into parenting? I can change diapers, make baby food, clean bottles, clothe a struggling child, and a hundred other skills of extremely limited utility in the outside world. But the list of things I…
Naturally Leavened
What’s not to like about naturally leavened bread? It uses naturally-occurring yeast in the air and flour, lasts much longer than commercially-yeasted bread, gives a better and more complex flavor, and reduces the number of ingredients. With just water, flour,…
Where Does Milk Come From?
You think you’re ready for the Big Questions when you’re a parent, but you aren’t. Toddler Harbat hasn’t yet begun to ask those questions that will make me pause, blush, and tell her to go ask Mamma. But at least…
What’s for Dinner?
Toddler Harbat has been growing up in our kitchen. She took her first steps there, and quickly learned where the bread was sliced. I’ve always tried to include her in food preparation, and her recent Christmas present shows where her…
Let Them Bake Bread
Hello readers! 2010 was a great year for the Handmade Blog. My readers came from all over the world, coloring my visitor stats with flags as familiar as the red, white, and blue bars of the U.K. and as foreign…
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