It goes without saying that I have gotten a little behind on my bread blog work—technical difficulties mostly having to do international travel to Eastern Europe, but also with nearly losing a cell phone, lacking appropriate device chargers, and lastly, Charter’s decrepit modem that quietly expired while we were out of town on the graduation […]
Category: Yeast Breads
Spicy Burgers on Tartine Brioche for Graduation BBQ
For those of you who have come to believe this is a health food blog, with this post, I burst your bubble with a slick sud of saturated fat. As a flexatarian, I readily celebrate calls for exception, calls for wild food abandon, when such calls satisfy certain theology and geometry. Graduating from medical school, […]
Turkish Pita and Stuff
Stuff is the worst. Possessions are one thing, shoes are treasures, but stuff is a curse. It would be great if there were a giant flour sifter, a big silver cylinder, and I could just squeeze a handle to capture all the treasures while losing the dust, the stuff, that clutters my floors and shelves. […]
Epi Bread and Kalamazoo
Ran another 26.2 again today in Kalamazoo—which sounds like the first line of a Dr. Seuss book, but it’s true. KP and I are 25 marathons into our 50 states! Half way there! Turns out that Kalamazoo is far more hilly, and hot-climated than we had anticipated. A rough go of it, but as always, […]
Focaccia di Recco
Make this as part of my Daring Bakers Club Challenge for last month. Wasn’t my favorite focaccia ever, I think a little too simple, too little leaven. It was like a glorified quesadilla. But tasty and a nice snack. Maybe it would have been better had I been able to find the proper Italian cheese. […]
Whole Wheat Flaxen Tartine Bread
Bread dough offers a healthy reminder that even in your absence, the great world spins. Last night, when at long last I arrived back home in Rochester, to restore order in the only way I know I can, I promptly set about to making bread. But in the flurry of kisses from Izzy, the toppling […]
Rosemary Garlic Knots and Psychoanalysis
O wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied, New Orleans? I so wanted to find my roost, but it is slim pickings in the Crescent City housing market, unfortunately. Patience. Deep breaths. Meditation to break the very unproductive ruminative default thought loops, “Where will we live?…. Where will we live? ….. Where will we live?” I’ve […]
Artos, Greek Easter Celebration Bread
We near the end of the symbol-rich Holy week, and the start of the Poetry Month, and so I offer the lyrics to an old hymn we sang several Lenten Sundays ago which makes bold the fascinating parallels and circularity to the symbols we celebrate at Easter. Ahem, not chocolate eggs. O wheat, whose crushing […]
Tartine Baguettes
I have not been impressed with any green bread recipe I’ve ever tried. And Irish Soda Bread is, at best, a shot put. I did make some killer guac for the St. Patty’s Day party I attended over the weekend. This St Patrick’s Day, I’m simply celebrating nature’s early green curling onto the branches out […]
Pumpkin Oat Pie Squares for Pi Day
Pi Day, Pie Day. I know, it’s the big one. 3.14.15.9 – how lucky to live through such a date. KP said we should do something special to celebrate, and I suggested math problems, and he said he would prefer to eat something special. If you are in the mood today to make some pie, […]