I was worried about this bread when I took it out of the oven – it seemed spongey rather than crusty, and I was afraid, because of the hot weather, that it would be like a sour dough loaf I baked last fall, on a hot day, that came out big and overblown and white. [...]
It’s still “unseasonably warm” here is WI – it was 81° today, ad it’s still in the high 60s at almost 10 p.m. In the morning, Rach and I walked, and because I thought my first advising appointment was by Skype, I figured I’d just do it at home. But when I got on and [...]
A new form of dieting? Over the weekend, I kept thinking about what if I tried to photograph everything I eat, before I eat it. I started today. This is the multi-grain cereal I just had for breakfast at work – Heidi’s recipe, but I didn’t soak it over nigh this time, and I only [...]
I was kind of a couch potato, again – but maybe a little more productive than Monday – baked the rye bread for the soup dinner Thursday. Which served nicely as my excuse for hanging on the couch, waiting for it to rise, and then bake. I realized in the morning that there was a [...]
Seasonal decor – Pumpkin surrounded by concord and seedless grapes Lots of pumpkin and orange fall-y foods – Autumn vegetable hash with eggs baked on top, squash challah – but the hits of the day were the bacon & cheese pull-apart bread, and the pumpkin sticky pudding. I got the bacon bread recipe from all [...]
Black bread with butter at work For the next installment of bread-a-week, I wanted to make Russian black bread. I used to use a recipe from Gourmet; it was contributed by a reader, so in the letters section at the front of the magazine. I remember making it when we lived in Chicago, so I [...]
I made a PBJ out a couple slices from the loaf I kept. I took it to work and ate half for breakfast and half for snack.
This year I guess I’m not celebrating Passover. Just sort of worked out that way. On Monday when I could have been having a first night sedar, I had a few friends over for a glass of wine and crackers & cheese (yes, they could have been matzoh crackers but they weren’t), and then we [...]
I was thinking about writing about all the haters I’ve been observing recently – it’s an election year, and the Republicans who are running are running some pretty nasty ads. My current “favorite” is the one by Scott Walker, a candidate for governor, who’s the current county supervisor for Milwaukee County, where they have the [...]
Soup, bread and salad for dinner sounded good to 24 grownups and 5 kids under seven, on a frigid night in late January, last Thursday’s dinner. But did I take a single picture? Nope. I tried to plan things so that people could be as acetic or extravagant in their food choices as they wished [...]
