I did a double take the first time I saw this recipe.  Lemon poppy seed…sourdough?  I had seen plenty of muffins and cakes before with this delicious combination, but never a loaf of bread.  Now that I’ve made it I wonder why I hadn’t seen it before, because it is quite tasty. The crumb of […]

You know those 5-Hour Energy commercials that always talk about that ‘2:30 feeling’?  Well maybe you don’t, I actually haven’t seen one in a while.  It talks about how everyone has this energy crash in the mid-afternoon of a work day.  I don’t really get that…I get hungry.  Usually I have lunch around noon, sometimes […]

It has been quite a while, I think too long, since I posted a bread that wasn’t a sourdough.  It’s not that I only make sourdough but moreso that a lot of the yeast bread recipes I make are ones I’ve posted about before.  Just about every week I’ll make a sandwich loaf, either a […]

I spent most of this past weekend making things to restock our freezer.  We’ll be out of town the next two weekends and I’ll be starting up school again at night in a few weeks so it was a good time to make a few things to have in the freezer for those nights we […]

My wife is not one to eat lots of junk food.  And if she does, her definition of it is different than most.  She won’t wolf down an entire Hersey’s bar or pint of Ben & Jerry’s.  She’s more likely to have a nibble of some dark chocolate bar or try and make her own […]

Wow, it has been over two months since I posted a bread recipe.  Right before leaving for France (and again last weekend) I made this Swedish rye bread.  I had been wanting to try a 100% rye loaf for some time and this was a simple quick bread that could be made in under an […]

Note: While my wife (!) and I are walking, driving, and eating our way through France on our honeymoon, I wanted to look back at some recipes and techniques I’ve discussed before.  Be back in July! If that post title doesn’t get you excited, I don’t know what will!  Working with the Tartine forumla the […]

Note: While my wife (!) and I are walking, driving, and eating our way through France on our honeymoon, I wanted to look back at some recipes and techniques I’ve discussed before.  Be back in July! In bread making an autolyse is the process of mixing water and flour and letting it sit before making […]

I have previously discussed my strange food habits as a child, in particular my decision to not eat a certain food despite never having tasted it.  These reasons ranged from completely arbitrary (I just never got around to eating red grapes) to unreasonable comparisons (cherry medicine does NOT taste like cherries).  I am sad to say […]

This past September I began a Master’s program and I usually had class two nights per week.  Since my classes were typically from 5-8 PM and many people in the program work full time, everyone took turns bringing food to class so that there was something to eat when we got there.  The last day […]