With apologies to my blog readers who have seen this bread before, but after several years, what I find interesting is how the weather affects my bread baking. I can’t get a decent loaf to work for me in the summer when it’s hot, but when my kitchen goes back to it’s usual 65-70 degrees, I can make a bomber loaf of bread. This is the no-knead bread I’ve been making for years now. Three cups flour (this is one cup each of King Arthur bread, all-purpose and whole-wheat flours, with a nice sprinkling of Bob’s Red Mill Dark Rye…
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When Patrick died, my manager at work said to me “Welcome to the club no one wants to be in.” Her first husband had dropped dead one day after carrying the groceries into the house. “I knew he was gone before he hit the floor,” she told me the time we talked about it, late at night, stuck in a bar in the Denver airport after a missed flight. She had a two year old at the time. One reason I grow impatient every year with the 9/11 coverage, is that it’s predicated on the idea that Americans had never…
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This month at Bookslut, I review three terrific books about making your own. Click here to read my review: D.I.Y. Delicious: Recipes and Ideas for Simple Food from Scratch Home Made Tart and Sweet: 101 Canning and Pickling Recipes for the Modern Kitchen