Thanksgiving marks the important beginning of the holiday shopping season but also demarcates the start of the equally important holiday food season.  Gone are the days of pumpkin spice, enter a blissful period of latkes and/or things flavored with nutmeg and cloves.    We first made these gingerbread waffles last year and I made them again last […]

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 […]

Here is a snippet from an actual conversation I overheard in my office this week: “How did the football game go last weekend?”…”It was great, another shutout!”…”Really? Didn’t they do that last week?” Yes, for the third week in a row the Michigan defense did not yield a single point and the rest of the […]

“Why would anybody ever eat anything besides breakfast food?”  This question is posed at the end of two of my favorite Parks and Rec episodes, first ‘Summer Catalog’ in season two and then in season seven’s ‘Leslie and Ron’.  Breakfast is undoubtedly my favorite meal, though I have not gone so far as to hang […]

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 […]

One of the great things about having a sourdough starter is sharing it with others looking to get into bread baking.  It can initially seem daunting but I’ve noticed that pretty quickly people realize there is not much maintenance work involved.  The idea of refreshing the starter, which involves discarding most of the current starter, is […]

A few years ago I spent weeks on end trying to make the perfect sandwich loaf.  After that I had a major Tartine phase and since then I have made sourdough boules far more often than your usual sandwich loaf.  As much as I enjoy a crust that shatters and a open crumb, sometimes it is […]

*Note: Last week I was inspired by the ‘April Showers Bring May Flours‘ project on Nuts.com to make a recipe using almond flour.  I have used products from Nuts.com before but didn’t receive any form of compensation from them and everything in the post is my own opinion. My love for breakfast has been well documented on this blog. […]

Nearly two weeks ago when Jay Harbaugh (son of Jim) was hired as a TE coach at Michigan he shared a story about when his dad had breakfast cereal with Gatorade when the family was out of milk.  This, of course, is a disgusting concept but one that must be investigated to the fullest.  Last week […]

Being able to multitask in the kitchen is a valuable skill.  If you want separate components of a meal to finish at the same time it not only takes planning but also requires the ability to potentially monitor several pots and pans at once.  But, there is a point where it is probably a good idea […]