It’s probably a sin to admit this, but…I don’t really like crusty bread. *gasp!* Crackly crusts hurt my mouth. I don’t like it when the soft center of the bread squashes as I try to bite into it. I’m basically a bread pariah. This is probably why I love sandwich loaves so much. By their […]
Friends, it’s time for some bitter truth about Thanksgiving. Hang on to your tri-corner hats.
The end of an era has arrived: this month marks the last Secret Recipe Club exchange, ever. I have to admit that I have mixed feelings about this. I have been part of this group since I was pregnant with Jake (who just turned 4!) so the SRC has influenced a lot of my cooking and baking […]
Three years ago, I made cinnamon buns for the first time. And the first time I made them, I must admit, it was a bit of a gory experience. Butter and sugar were all over the counters and my clothes and I was furiously beating confectioner’s sugar into glaze by hand at 2am. Since then, I […]
When I was in high school, my best friend and I liked to take walks through Carytown. We almost always started our jaunts at Montana Gold Bread Co., where we would snag a free slice of challah and slather it with butter before venturing out to a bench to people-watch and pretend we were cool. […]
So it’s Spring, which is a beautiful thing. Except that my children have been rising with the sun. The very early sun. Before we go any further, I must come out as strongly against The Morning. Specifically, all of the hours before 8:00 am. I cannot get behind anything that causes me to get up […]
I really wish I had been one of those kids who stood in the kitchen with her grandmother, wearing a humongous apron and up to her elbows in flour. (Instead, I was generally quite preoccupied with the book attached to my nose.) We love to eat, but my family wasn’t built on a long history […]
Sarah and I have been meaning to grill together for ages. Inevitably, we gather all of the ingredients and our courage to cook with charcoal, and then it pours rain. But this week we were determined, rain or shine, to grill some veggies and some flatbreads! Naturally, on the big morning, the rain clouds rolled […]
This pizza crust is made out of flour and time and magic. Every time I make it, a phrase from 1 Corinthians comes to my mind: “A little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough” (1 Cor. 5:6). Whenever I hear that phrase ringing in my head, I feel tempted to tell you that this […]
You know the phrase, “It’s the best thing since sliced bread”? This is the best thing since sliced bread. (And then, you can slice it and butter it…and the irony will only make it more delicious.) I can’t stop baking this peasant bread! I convinced myself a few weeks ago that it was worth it […]