Media vita in morte sumus, in the midst of life we are in death. Well, my chief goal for the last quarter of the year was to not die, and die I did NOT, although there was considerable dying of all sorts. Sorry if I scared y’all, I know one of my readers reached out […]
“How can a nation be great if their bread tastes like Kleenex?” Julia Child. I would have voted for Julia Child for President. Yep, even a drunk Julia sounds pretty good right now. Tweets from Mastering the Art of French Cooking. She’d sneak a meat tenderizer into the G7 Summit and bang it on the […]
O, that we could learn to camouflage with brightness day in and day out like the spring moth in New Orleans. Or that we could be so fearless in the face of predators. See me; I’m right here, living wild. May you eat as spicily as you live. This week’s work comes again from the […]
Sourdough Pillar #3: Taste Takes Time From the Portland Bake This Day kitchen, today we celebrate Bread Pillar #3 with a salute to the hours of extra time we all have at home. The perfect opportunity to better care for your starter, which should, by the way, have a name. Bake This Day starters are […]
“…You could sleep/ until Easter. Maybe the fog will have lifted/ by then and time will not seem to pass/ like small bones being broken in order.” Jack Underwood, from “An Envelope” Here on the other side of Easter, we are still “pounding on the windows like [flies],” buzzing with concern and ennui. Perhaps hope, […]
As Louisiana, Oregon and the rest of the country do our #AloneTogether routines, Bake This Day brings you English Muffin Bread, an easy and delicious addition to your sourdough repertoire along with a short lesson on Bread Pillar #2: Bread Percentage. This often over-mystified concept is simple to understand! We add to this a delicious […]
This post is all Mom, in honor of her recent birthday, we celebrate Andie Ellis. I like to think of her as my starter. She is the sourdough from which I’m torn. I’m just a bleb that bubbled off her blob. She is the master bread baker who has taught me everything I know. Now […]
“Wounding and healing are not opposites. They’re part of the same thing. It is our wounds that enable us to be compassionate with the wounds of others. It is our limitations that make us kind to the limitations of other people. It is our loneliness that helps us to find other people or to even […]
We are getting in the holiday mood over here as a lovely denial of the chemo week coming tomorrow. Here is a random and possibly fated collection of goodies that have flowed onto my porch, all gifted. Consider paying forward kindness into your community and rounding up some of these gifts to delight a loved […]
“Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore,/ only kindness that ties your shoes/ and sends you out into the day to gaze at bread,/ only kindness that raises its head/ from the crowd of the world to say/ It is I you have been looking for,/ and then goes with you everywhere/ like […]