“Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible and mars and the mutable, and finally has come to look and not to buy.” Marilynne Robinson, in Housekeeping This tangible is worth a finger or two. I ate, easily, six pieces. To mar this mutable seems a lovely thing. As close to purchase as it […]
For marriage counseling, KP and I did some group sessions with couples from Quest Church (Seattle). It was in one of these sessions that I met my first Turk. The way we all came to learn this about him: the group facilitator had asked us to share what ground rules we had thus far established […]
Hopped off the plane last night in Savannah, Georgia and went straight to the Pirate’s House to get me some low country cooking—Andouille Jambalaya. It shivered my timbers. Arrrgh, I have missed southern cuisine. The College English Association Conference is gearing up today, I’m polishing off my presentation for Saturday. The only literary tie-in I’ve […]
To my wonderful inlaws in Ballard, Washington I brought this gift last night. While making the bread I had my doubts regarding the strange procedure—scorch the bottom of the dough on a skillet, broil the top in the oven–why? They appeared to be amoebic pancakes, sprung to life from wet, primordial dough. And yet, viola, […]
See what I did there? Stealing the strategy of every self-respecting protein bar, I took something that was good for you but tasted awful and dipped it in chocolate. The Hunza Sprouted Wheat Berry Bread, this is a revision to my earlier post, needs help. No one, and this has an n=8, no one thinks […]
Making bread from wheat berries is the most pioneer thing I have ever done. It is unimaginably satisfying to plunge your hands into a bowl of the “whole” of whole wheat. I feel like I have been making this bread for a long time. And I have. I soaked the wheat berries for three days. […]
Got two or three inches of snow last night. I had hoped to find a pair of snowshoes in time for this recipe. I would stomp through the backyard posing intrepidly with today’s naan, but all I had was a pair of skates, hand-me-downs from Carol Sundholm. Luckily, the freezing rain from last week created […]
Back to the once-a-week Amazing Race-esque world bread scavenger hunt. This time we go to Herat, Afghanistan for another tasty flatbread. I now own a real pizza stone and a bread peel thanks to my birthday, and this recipe tested them both. What a vast improvement over the Uighur naan from China! This flatbread is […]
Pardon the interruption to our regularly scheduled programme with Baking Illustrated—I was recently gifted a “breads of the world” cookbook, Flatbreads and Flavors by an esteemed Calvary member, Greg. The authors describe themselves as “people caught in the grip of wanderlust” (and probably flour dust, I surmise). I’ll be making culinary excursions at the beginning […]