I was all set to switch to spring and summer cooking this week but Michigan had other plans.  Over the weekend it cooled back down and even snowed a bit on Saturday.  But that was OK because it gave me an opportunity to make soup and bread to warm up the apartment.  I made tortilla […]

In the past few weeks my Facebook newsfeed has been heavily populated with people posting links to various recipes from Tasty, the food branch of Buzzfeed.  I’m primarily annoyed by these because of the way in which the headlines are written but also because rarely if ever do I see a recipe if I want to […]

When I was younger one surefire sign that we were at a fancy restaurant was the presence of grissini, or long, thin, and crunchy breadsticks (in contrast to the chewy and doughy kind).  They would be brought to the table in a tall thin glass and I would make a pile of crumbs while snapping […]

Living in an apartment community in a college town means you are bound to get mail every now and again that is addressed to someone else.  I found it odd that this still happened in our old apartment last year (having lived there for three years) but it was always junk mail that went right into […]

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 […]

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 […]

Everyone I know has at least one strange habit when it comes to food.  It might be a specific way you peel a fruit, prepare a dish, or eat your favorite food.  For example, at a young age I picked up from my dad the habit of eating grilled cheese by cutting strips off each side […]

When my wife and I got to Paris last summer the first thing we each ate was a piping hot bowl of French onion soup.  It was surprisingly cool afternoon and we had been walking around for a few hours and sufficiently worked up an appetite.  We stopped at a cafe across the street from […]

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. […]