Ah, finally getting back to working with my hands. I’ve been so busy lately I really haven’t had a chance to a leisurely Saturday of baking, knitting, reading and music listening. In fact, my turntable had a thick approximately 1-inch layer of dust on it that would make any OCD-clean freak or music devotee shiver.
And [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘bread’
February 28, 2009
Dusting off my life…
December 20, 2008
Peasant 3 was sure to note, “Well, she turned me into a newt!”
…thank you, Monty Python.
There’s nothing better than breaking bread with a friend, something I’ve been trying to make a habit of lately. While my wrists are just about killing me from all that dough kneading, those moments when the loaf cracks in two and the crusty crumbs fly everywhere, make those pains in my joints [...]
October 15, 2008
Breaking the loaf in half?
The Atlantic has a great article called “Half a Loaf: When Bakers Break Up, Who Gets Custody of the Recipes?” by Corby Kummer in the October 2008 Issue.
It’s an intriguing piece on recipe sharing, recipe creating, and partnership–what happens when that ends? Do you split the recipes in half? Does one take them all? Of [...]
September 22, 2008
Lazy, lazy, lazy, lazy, lazy, lazy Jane. She wants a drink of water?
Today has been one of the most relaxing Mondays I’ve ever had, which kicked off with copious amounts of coffee and the smell of homemade cinnamon toast baking in the oven. Rolling out dough can be one of the most relaxing exercises, even though it doesn’t seem like it…and clean-up is never actually relaxing, for [...]
September 17, 2008
“Nose, Nose, Nose Nose! And who have thee that jolly red nose? Cinnamon and Ginger, Nutmegs and Cloves, And that, gave me my jolly red nose”
Yesterday, my cohort and I had an afternoon of craft-up and flick watching, and while finishing off some cabled fingerless mitts I’ve been neglecting for some time, I also decided to whip up a loaf of my by now famous Cinnamon Toast for Laura’s roommate Ashley, whose birthday is today.
It made my entire apartment smell [...]
September 14, 2008
The roots of bread baking…
Birthdays can be such wonderful things; thanks to my latest obsession with bread baking, my sister Nicki-Cha gifted me the brilliantly large New Complete Book of Breads by Bernard Clayton, which I highly recommend for any bread baker who wants whites, ryes, sour doughs, brans, oatmeals, sweet breads, corn breads, and everything in betwixt (never [...]
