In addition to being the time of year where my wife and I stuff our faces with all things pumpkin, we are also in the midst of a huge apple kick.  A few weeks ago in September we made our annual trip to a nearby orchard to pick an obscene amount of apples.  This year […]

I did a double take the first time I saw this recipe.  Lemon poppy seed…sourdough?  I had seen plenty of muffins and cakes before with this delicious combination, but never a loaf of bread.  Now that I’ve made it I wonder why I hadn’t seen it before, because it is quite tasty. The crumb of […]

I recently read William Alexander’s 52 Loaves, a book which details one man’s quest for the perfect loaf of homemade bread.  Alexander takes ‘homemade bread’ to the extreme and much like the Little Red Hen, starts by planting wheat.  When his neighbor inquires as to why he is sowing wheat in his front yard he […]