Last weekend, a friend of mine and I celebrated our birthdays with a birthday brunch. Both of us cooked things, and then a bunch of people came over to eat them and to hang out. It was pretty great.
Forays into the Realm of Sourdough Bread Baking
Following the success of the sourdough bread from the Bread Feast, I was highly motivated to continue experimenting with sourdough breads. And so I began a more-than-month-long process of producing
Fig & Walnut Bread
My recent bread feast involved, among other breads, a fig & walnut loaf. It was made with Italian type 00 flour, dried mission figs and walnuts. It also had a thin, crisp, salty malt syrup crust.
A Saturday Night Bread Feast
On a Saturday night not long ago, we had a bread feast at our house. Planning a bread feast is always a risky endeavor, at least for me. When I'm experimenting with bread (which is how one ends up
Possibly My Best Bread Yet
I usually bake all the bread we eat at home. Since I began baking for real (you can read more about that here), I’ve mostly done variations on the same recipe. But last year when I was trying to
Tiger Bread
My boyfriend came home one day, all excited because he had remembered this special bread called Tijgerbrood (Tiger Bread). Actually, I think it was one of his colleagues who had asked him, if he knew