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san marzanos on the deck
Posted in cooking, photography, tagged summer, tomato, plants, deck on July 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Dadliness/ More Sourdough
Posted in cooking, tagged artisan breads every day, dadliness, experiments, peter reinhart, sourdough on June 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Happy Father’s Day, here’s more pictures of bread. Great dadliness requires patience and endless encouragement with little expectation of results- just like sourdough. I punched down the sad blob and left it in my steamy apartment for the day while I was at work because I couldn’t bear to throw it out. When I got [...]
Failure to Rise: Wild Yeast Pain au Levain
Posted in cooking on June 17, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Conclusion: Instant Yeast is a great invention. Like plumbing, the pasta machine, printing and maple syrup. I may throw in a bit of the wild stuff for flavor, but it cannot be relied upon as leavening unless you are building it up and baking everyday.
Somerville Pain au Levain
Posted in cooking, tagged artisan breads every day, baking, bread, peter reinhart on June 15, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Following Peter Reinhart’s instructions, I harvested yeast from the Somerville air and slept with the culture under my pillow every night for a month. But check out the sweet loaf! This version calls for both wild and instant yeast, I’m trying it tomorrow with only the wild. Will post results.
Food Writing for Edible Queens
Posted in cooking, writing on June 10, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Look I wrote an article about fresh pasta at Ornella’s, a great neighborhood restaurant in Astoria. And Jesse published it! I’m a food writer!
On the steps this morning:
Posted in cooking, tagged carina, lemon squares on June 10, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Peter Reinhart’s Artisan Breads Every Day: Book Review
Posted in book review, cooking on May 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I like bread more than I like chocolate. My stepmother Betty (no bakeries in Heath!), Carina, and I have all been conducting various no knead bread experiments to try to replicate the kind of bread we love at home. This Reinhart is some kind of bread guru and has a significant following. His recipes are [...]
cheese.
Posted in cooking on May 8, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I made it.
New Digs
Posted in cooking, tagged fresh pasta, cedar street, kitchen on April 14, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Here is the new kitchen, a week ago when I made 6 egg linguine. Today I’m home sick and only have the energy to lie on the couch and look out the screen door. I love the new place: snug and sociable floor plan. Carina gave me a still warm loaf of rye bread for [...]
St. Kate’s Day
Posted in cooking, tagged baking, irish soda bread on March 18, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I was sorely tempted last night to drive the two and half hours to Heath to eat corned beef. I knew it was a spring fever and tried to content myself with mixing together Kate Kearns’ family recipe for soda bread. I substituted cranberry sauce for most of the raisins. I’m moving and have become [...]
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