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 […]

I did it! I made bread! You would think this should not be a notable achievement for someone who runs a bread blog, but this polenta and rosemary sourdough is the first loaf of bread I’ve made since we brought Maple home more than 7 weeks ago.  Oddly enough, I think it might also be the first […]

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 […]

I know I’ve said it several times in the past few weeks but I really don’t understand how people with complicated lives can have a puppy.  On the plus side, I reach my step goal every day just by parading Maple in and out of the apartment when she needs (or think she needs) to […]

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 […]

When I was in 7th grade we had to complete an assignment where we found out the names of various local and world leaders.  It’s why I still think that Maryland’s senators are Paul Sarbanes and Barbara Mikulski (Mikulski is still in office) and why I can tell you that in 2001 Gerhard Schröder was Germany’s Chancellor. […]

As I thought might happen on Monday, I had neither the time nor the energy this week to do a new Photoshop Phriday post.  There are a few blogs I follow that have continued to post on regular schedules when getting new puppies, I really don’t know how they do it.  I suppose when the […]