It’s that time of year!  The days are short, presents are being wrapped (or have been wrapped and opened if you celebrated Hanukkah), and the weather is…well not quite normal.  It was 60 degrees yesterday and I went grocery shopping wearing shorts and flip-flops!  Not your typical December weather, though I’m sure it will get there. […]

My wife and I finished watching all seven seasons of Parks and Rec a few weeks ago, the end of a five month journey.  I consume an amount of media befitting of a millennial (read: I watch a lot of TV) and having watched Parks and Rec before knew that my wife would enjoy it (and you would […]

On Saturday we had our first snowfall of the year (10 inches!) and it was the perfect day to stay inside and make bread.  The forecast had originally called for less but it just kept snowing and snowing all day long.  We had a potluck dinner scheduled at 6 PM and opted to walk the two miles […]

Today I’m winding the clock back to revisit a basic sandwich loaf that I first posted about in May 2012.  In the three and a half years since I have probably made this loaf close to 75 times.  This is the loaf I recommend to anyone who is just starting out making bread and looking for a […]

I was an avid reader of the back of the cereal box as a child.  Call it nostalgia, but cereal companies these days just aren’t putting out high quality content like they used to.  However the other day a recipe on the Kroger bran flakes box for an applesauce bran bread grabbed my attention.  Nowhere […]

What a weekend – Michigan football’s 28-0 win over Maryland ended up being just the warm up act to another no-hitter (and another near perfect game) by Max Scherzer.  However with the Nationals season ending yesterday my sports attention now shifts fully to Michigan football. On Sunday morning my cooking attention was given fully to […]

Last week the weather signaled that it was fall and this week the produce available at the farmer’s market followed suit.  In a few days the calendar will finally get with the program and make it official.  Instead of seeing produce stacks at the market piled high with zucchini and summer squash there were a […]

Three weeks after moving in I finally got around to using our oven!  A very busy summer is transitioning into a very busy fall so I went with a quick and simple recipe this weekend.  I would have liked to cross a few other things off my ‘to-make’ list but was sick most of the […]

Over the weekend we got the last of our stuff out of the old apartment and are officially moved in to our new place.  In the chaos of moving and having 90 degree heat for the first time all summer I haven’t gotten around to making any bread yet in the new apartment. Fortunately I […]

This month Pavani of Cook’s Hideout hosted our #BreadBakers event and chose ‘summer bounty’ as the theme.  Her idea was perfectly timed because as I began to think about it all sorts of delicious things started to pop up at the farmer’s market.  We got several zucchini in our CSA box so I thought about […]