Taps mic…Testing, Testing…Oh hey, this still works!  After a much needed three month hiatus I finally found the time and willpower to sit down and write a blog post.  I’ve still be cooking plenty the past three months, although my bread baking still hasn’t recovered to pre-Maple levels.  That partially had to do with the […]

Maple continues to grow like a weed and weighed in at 40 pounds at her 16 week vet appointment.  She has gotten much better at being OK while unsupervised in the apartment (she is plodding around on her own while I write this) and doesn’t need to be taken out constantly.  She loves to go […]

I’ve been cooking a lot of Serious Eats recipes lately and this one has been on my ‘to-make’ list for a very long time.  Over three years, in fact.  I was introduced to the site by a friend of mine in 2013 when he sent me a link to this pan pizza.  I love any […]

Apologies once again are in order if you came here looking for a bread recipe.  I promise I will get back to that soon, but while you wait I encourage you to peruse the bread section of the recipe index to find a library of yeast and sourdough bread recipes.  However if you came here […]

Life with Maple continues to be both fun and exhausting which means far less time for cooking.  I used to spend most of my Sundays baking bread and cooking for the week but have done neither in far too long.  Fortunately for Maple is the sweetest and greatest puppy ever so I don’t hold it […]

If you’ve come here looking for the usual Photoshop Phriday post, I have some bad news.  But since I’m guessing that is relatively few of you, you’ll no doubt be excited to find more pictures of Maple, our new puppy.  My wife has been out of town at a conference since Monday so I have […]

On Friday morning my wife and I brought home the newest addition to our family, Maple!  She is a golden retriever and in my humble and completed unbiased opinion is the greatest dog that has been or ever will be (apologies to Daphne and Ginger).  This is despite the fact that she has kept us up […]

The past few weeks my wife and I have been doing more and more weeknight cooking.  Normally we cook a few meals over the weekend and then eat them throughout the week.  It’s good to have a stock of quick weeknight recipes that you can easily put together when you get home.  This chicken is a […]

Beef and barley soup/stew is one of my favorite winter meals and goes perfectly with some warm buttermilk biscuits.  I feel like this winter I haven’t made as many of what you might consider typically winter dishes.  Those hearty soups and stews or big roasts that heat up the whole house while it’s cold outside.  Much […]

At one point our pantry and freezer housed almost a dozen types of flour.  These days I’ve trimmed that back to a more modest seven: bread, all purpose, whole wheat, pizza, semolina, almond, & glutinous rice.  However as the types of flour has decreased our stockpile of rice has risen and now one almost rivals the other. […]