This month Karen of Karen’s Kitchen Stories is hosting the #BreadBakers event and selected ‘Seeds’ as our theme.  I figured to truly get into the spirit I should pick a recipe loaded with different kinds of seeds.  Given that next week is St. Patrick’s Day I thought this would be as good a time as […]

With sourdough loaves while there is little hands on time from start to finish it might take a day and a half to make a loaf of bread.  Friday night I’ll feed my sourdough starter and Saturday morning I’ll make the dough.  After a slow rise Saturday morning and afternoon (spent this weekend by finishing House […]

This month’s #BreadBakers event was hosted by Heather of Hezzi-D’s Books and Cooks, who chose bagels as our theme.  I’ve made bagels several times before and tried a few styles (traditional New York bagels, thinner crispy ones) so I wanted to use this as an opportunity to try something different.  If you’re interested you can read […]

Most weekends I spend busy in the kitchen and catching up on all sorts of things.  This weekend I wanted nothing more than to stay in bed under the covers, occasionally leaving to work on a puzzle or read.  But yesterday morning I woke up and realized I didn’t have a bread to post about. […]

While I haven’t taken a break from blogging recently today is my first day back at work in about two weeks.  Working at a university I sometimes forget that the overwhelming majority of people don’t get so much time off at the end of each year.  When I was a student my parents would ask […]

A few weeks ago on Twitter I came across a link from Karen at Karen’s Kitchen Stories that was posted with the hashtag #BreadBakers. After some more clicking I found out it was not just a random hashtag but an organized group of bakers who (virtually) came together each month to make and share recipes around an […]

I made this bread a few weeks ago around the same time I baked up the Normandy apple bread.  While both are loaded with partially dried apples this loaf has a much stronger taste because of the addition of buckwheat flour and apple cider.  Cider is used both to make the starter and in the final […]

Two weeks ago I shared a recipe for pumpkin cornbread that you could make for your Thanksgiving table.  The pumpkin I roasted for that was about twice as big as others I had bought this year and I was left with several cups of pumpkin puree.  I made two batches of pumpkin waffles and still had […]

On Friday afternoon I set aside some time as usual to think about what I wanted to make this weekend.  Unless I have a particular craving that needs attention this usually involves perusing my list of bookmarked recipes and comparing those ingredient lists with what we have on hand.  For several weeks I had wanted to […]

In addition to being the time of year where my wife and I stuff our faces with all things pumpkin, we are also in the midst of a huge apple kick.  A few weeks ago in September we made our annual trip to a nearby orchard to pick an obscene amount of apples.  This year […]