The Power of the Poolish
Posted by Susan in Breads, Breads Made With Yeast, Featured Articles, How To on Jun 3rd, 2009 | 36 Comments
Name any ingredient you can think of, and chances are you’ve seen it in a bread recipe. Seeds, fruits, vegetables, nuts, herbs, spices, eggs, oil, sugar… all make regular appearances in ingredient lists, and contribute to some wonderfully flavorful loaves.
And yet, at its simplest, truest,...
Spiral Coffee Cake with Nuts and Orange Marmalade
Posted by Ari in Breads, Breads Made With Yeast, Desserts, Featured Articles on May 27th, 2009 | 56 Comments
It’s hard to describe the sheer awesomeness of this coffee cake, with its beautiful spirals and layers of brown sugar, pecans, walnuts and orange marmalade. But for you, I will try. Imagine the aroma of warm sugar and nuts, think about the sensation of fresh, fluffy bread melting in your mouth....
Cinnamon Pan Dulce (Mexican Morning Buns)
(Vegetarian) Whole Wheat Chorizo-Onion Bread
Cholula Cheese Bread
Easy Three Cheese Broccoli Calzones (Plus: My First How-To Video!)
Posted by Ari in Breads Made With Yeast, How To, Main Dishes, My Recipes, Work Lunches on Feb 18th, 2009 | 100 Comments
I always thought calzones were one of those sacred things that only professional bakers could make. Every time we ordered from our favorite brick oven pizzeria I always made sure to get one - plain cheese, spinach and cheese, or broccoli and cheese. Mmm mmm. I love dipping a warm calzone in marinara...
Homemade Tomato Soup & Open Faced Vegetable Melts (Plus: How to Bake with Yeast)
Posted by Ari in Balanced Eating, Breads Made With Yeast, How To, Main Dishes, My Recipes, Quick & Easy, Soups and Stews, Work Lunches on Feb 5th, 2009 | 111 Comments
Those of you who live in areas that see a lot of snow will understand when I say that sometimes a 10 minute drive to the market for a loaf of bread is so not worth it. Like last week, when Connecticut was being covered in sheets of snow and freezing rain, and I realized I’d forgotten to buy a...
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The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride By Daniel James Brown
It's not often that a history book will compel me to set all my novels aside, but "The Indifferent Stars Above" certainly did. Within the first few pages I was spellbound. I had to know how Sarah, a young woman newly married to her childhood sweetheart, would end up on top of the Sierra Nevada mountains in the dead of winter, starving and forced to do unspeakable things in order to survive.
"The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride" tells the story of the Donner Party from the perspective of newlyweds Sarah Graves and Jay Fosdick. In April of 1846 the couple joined Sarah's family as they journeyed west from Illinois to the promised land of California. (Read the rest of this review...)
