Nourishing Joy in the Home Kitchen
I’ve written before about how much I enjoy baking homemade bread here: Sunday Baking Series: The Miracle of Bread. After baking many different types of loaves, mostly from Ken Forkish‘s fabulous book Flour Water Salt Yeast, I was ready to branch out on my own. I thought …
Bread gets a bad wrap these days. It always seems like everyone is trying to “cut down” on their bread intake, be it calories, carbs, gluten, or whatever other fad diet grabs our attention. And yet, bread has sustained humans for thousands of years. I’ve …
I am writing this post as I recover from a bout of illness-induced anosmia. As in, I couldn’t smell. For most people, not being able to smell during a cold is annoying, but for someone who lives to cook, it felt like a crisis. Which …
Bread may be one of the most intimidating things to try your own hand at, especially if you already have access to good-quality bread from a professional baker nearby. Yes, most recipes look more like chapters out of a textbook and use weird words like …
Focaccia has never held a ton of appeal for me. I typically associate it with those spongy, oily, crustless pieces of bread surrounding “fancy” sandwiches at places like Panera, so why in the world would I want to make it at home? That all changed …
Every year, the first night it sorta feels like Fall, I get the itch to bake quick breads. I want to dump a bunch of ingredients in a bowl without caring too much about technique. I want big, warm, comfy loaves filling my house with …