Media Vita with Extra Protein

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 […]

Sourdough Waffles and Rum Cake To Match

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 […]

Shrimp Scampi with Orzo and Drake’s

“…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, […]

Bread by My Starter

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 […]

Kindnesses, myriad and without end

“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 […]