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 […]

This week I’ve been posting a series of Thanksgiving recipes.  Get your holiday menu started with pumpkin cornbread, bread stuffing, a vegetable tart, and crispy Chinese duck. And so, one week after I decided on a whim to make a Thanksgiving dinner, we reach the end of the blog recap.  I suppose I could have […]

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 […]