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 […]
“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 […]
All the time that I would spend coming up with some clever drivel to write here I conscientiously divert to the husband who has been gone for six weeks. Meanwhile, enjoy this happy commercial for easy quinoa bread. Quinoa Bread Adapted from Five Minutes a Day Artisan Bread 3 cups whole wheat flour 3 […]
I was beginning to exhibit snail behavior, slowing to near-imperceptible movement, curling my face downward, shelling most everything, things I’d like to say, feelings. Thank God I have a day off to sleep in, uncurl, put on my sneakers and leave some silver streaks around the neighborhood. Actually feel the sun on my body. Here […]
Popovers are the hollowest of muffins. The perfect bread-form soup spoons, or whipped cream receptacles. They look like a herd of mollusks perched on the cooling rack. I’ve made these before, to the smooth tones of Teddy Pendergrass crooning on about hot oils (key ingredient, here)—but never with sourdough starter, which is this month’s Sourdough […]
Rye bread is best when prepared by the sponge method, I believe. This bread is SUPER healthy, and tasty, but, as Janelle points out, needs a little butter. Its crumb is the color of ash, almost a lavender-grey. When I eat a slice, I feel as though I have had two breakfasts. One slice sustains […]
It is the day after National Pancake Day. Ambushed, I felt, when I saw that IHOP gave away stacks of free pancakes yesterday, and I missed it. Not ambushed because I missed out on the pancakes, but because I missed out on pancakes that were free. I will go anywhere and do anything for free […]