As soon as a happened upon this cake, (thank you Bloglines for delivering the blogs I like to read in such an easy way), I knew that I wanted to make it. I actually thought of the cake every day until this morning when I finally made it. Wait, let me correct that. Until this [...]
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mom, writer, cook, runner; in that order.
Monthly Archives: July 2009
Jul 24
Ciabatta=fail, Cinnamon rolls=pass
I don’t know what happened with my ciabatta, but something just wasn’t right. It looked promising, but like a marriage ending in divorce, something went wrong. I don’t know what, but something was wrong, very wrong. This made the matter of cinnamon rolls that much more important. I find baking more challenging in the warm [...]
Jul 05
Challah
I don’t think I’d ever eaten challah before, but I made it! This turned out to be a beautiful loaf of bread that left the nighttime kitchen fragrant and made me want to sit in front of the oven with my black notebook and write some poems about it. But I didn’t. By the time [...]
Jul 03
Brioche
BBA Challenge strikes again. This time, the bread is brioche. This sounds incredibly dense, but it didn’t occur to me until I came across the blog French Laundry at Home that what I am doing is cooking, or in this case baking, my way from beginning to end of a cookbook. I am glad that [...]