I wasn’t even going to tell you about this one, but then it really grew on me, as quick breads tend to do. They almost always get better as they mature, and by the time I was down to this last end piece, I was seriously regretting bringing nearly half the loaf to my neighbors [...]

I made challah for Kol Nidre, which I know was an embarrassingly long time ago, don’t even try to calculate it. And believe you me, it hasn’t been easy to keep this to myself for so long. This was my first time making challah! It was really exciting. So why did I wait so long [...]

And the bread baking continues, with a yeast bread that’s a lot easier and less messy than the no-knead bread and takes much much less of your time. How does this one compare to the no-knead bread? It doesn’t really. These are two completely different animals, but I should mention that this one is also [...]

Back when I made that Spring Panzanella, I decided I was going to do one for every season. This is the summer one. Oh. You got that? So I was eating this and I was thoroughly enjoying it, but then I realized that I was leaving a lot of the bread at the bottom of my [...]

It’s taken a few days for this to sink in. Over the weekend, I made…drumroll, please…bread. A loaf of bread. My first [yeast] bread ever! It had a crunchy and crackly crust and a soft and chewy interior, and it was easily just as good as any bread that’s ever been brought to my table pre-meal in [...]

I know. I’m extremely disappointed in me, too, for making something so ridiculously similar to something I just made. (You don’t even need to click on that link, you can just scroll down a few inches.) I couldn’t help myself with this one, though, because one of the most gratifying things for me in all [...]

I had a dream the other night that I had a C-section. Not to extract a baby from my womb, but to extract food from my stomach. They gave me painkillers so I wouldn’t feel them cutting into me, but I watched them do it, and I witnessed a whole mess of partially digested food tumble [...]