One of the better things about being old -and there are damn few- is that time moves faster and faster every year. A few days ago was Thanksgiving, and Christmas is due in only a few more. This bothers some old people, but not me – I think if time slowed down [...]
Archive for the ‘baking’ Category
Sneaking Up On Christmas
Posted in Food, baking, tagged candied lemon, candied orange, Christmas baking, high gluten flour, individual panettone, panettone, panettone recipe, Wild Yeast blog on December 20, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Finally, A Fruitcake For Eating
Posted in Food, Our Favorite Dishes, baking, tagged Developmental Disabilities, fruitcake, group home, Mrs Harvey's White Fruitcake, Mrs Lucile Harvey, SSI, Tampa Tribune, The Collin Street Bakery on December 9, 2009 | 7 Comments »
In one of my past lives, I was a social worker for The Florida Department of Developmental Disabilities – aside from the poverty wage, it was a nice job to have at that point in my life – mostly, I spent the day driving from house to house of folks who had [...]
America’s Food Secrets #8, Vermont Feather Beds
Posted in America's Food Secrets, baking, tagged America's Food Secrets, Edmund Dulac, feather beds, sourdough batter muffins, The Federated Women's Clubs of America, Vermont Feather Beds, yeasted batter muffins on November 19, 2009 | 9 Comments »
There were two things that my sister and I liked about going to our grandmother’s house in Delaware – and they may have been the only things we liked about it – one was the fact my Gramma Warren (I never remember hearing her first name, my mother simply called her, Mom, or to us, [...]
Pierre Nury’s French Rye Ciabatta
Posted in Food, baking, tagged ciabatta, Daniel Leader, firm levain, Local Breads, Meilleurs Ouvriers de France, Pierre Nury, rustic light rye, The Fresh Loaf, wet doughs, zolablue on November 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
A few weeks ago, I did a Daniel Leader bread, Raisin Pumpernickel, to be specific. And recently, I was popping around on The Fresh Loaf and I found another Leader bread, this one Pierre Nury’s Rustic Auvergne Light Rye, which is one of the breads out of Leader’s newest book, Local Breads. Nury [...]
Let’s Celebrate Autumn
Posted in Food, baking, tagged autumn, basic sourdough loaf, French toast, local foods, mushroom bread, mushrooms, roasted mushrooms, seasonal foods, sourdough on November 5, 2009 | 8 Comments »
If you live in the U.S., anywhere in the U.S., there is a season when all normal activity takes a timeout to make room for that special local something that’s about to come into season – some lucky areas have dozens of special “seasons”, some only a few – but no matter where you reside, [...]
