my resolution to make bread every week for one year
March 6, 2010
Kare raisu is a rich, thick, and heavily spiced curry sauce with stewed vegetables such as carrots, potatoes, and onions. You’d choose your meat and temperature (like choosing hot wing sauce, ranging from mild to why-did-I-do-this-to-myself?) and they’d ladle generous helpings over white rice or noodles. Add a side of naan flatbread to help scoop and soak and life was good. I had to try my hand at naan.
March 3, 2010
Flatland is a fictional world in a satirical novella from 1884. In Flatland, there are two dimensions – which means that objects and people may be triangles, squares, and other polygons. To a Flatlander, another person is only visible as a line segment with very little to differentiate between the lowly isosceles triangle and a […]
February 28, 2010
About ten days after baking my first batch of sourdough bread I’m still going strong. I’ve made another few batches, including another round of sourdough boules. While it’s gaining in flavor profile – slightly more sour and complex – I screwed up the other night’s batch by not measuring and failing to add enough salt. […]
February 19, 2010
One of my great BreadYear goals is to bake a sour, crunchy bread bowl and ladle piping hot soup, chili, or chowder into said bowl. The first step to an excellent sour sourdough bread is an excellent sourdough starter. This week I decided to give it a try.
February 18, 2010
On Sunday morning of BreadYear Week 6, we woke up late and debated what to do for breakfast. After some debate, Amber decided on cinnamon rolls. I say that she decided because I didn’t think we had time – the dough would have to rise, the various recipes I was checking out seemed very involved, and it was already getting late in the morning.