Fritz Crisler may not be a household name for those outside the U-M community but if you have watched a Michigan football game in the last 77 years you have seen part of his lasting impact on the program.  Crisler played under legendary coach Amos Stagg at the University of Chicago and became the head coach […]

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 […]

Happy Holidays from Bakers & Best!  Hopefully you have the chance to take a few days off work/stressing about the Michigan football coaching situation to relax.  I wanted to share a few recipes I’ve posted before that I think would be a fun way to spend some of your time the next few days.  Enjoy!

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 […]

The first bread book I purchased was Peter Reinhart’s The Bread Baker’s Apprentice.  In the introductory pages he outlines the twelve steps of making bread, from mixing and fermentation to cooling and storing.  Before all of those, however, is the critical mise en place, French for putting in place.  Essentially it means that before you start […]