Tag: bread
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Peach, Goat Cheese and Mint Crostini
When I worked in the bakery, I started off on the pastry station. I lasted around one month before I switched to bread. Pastry, it turned out, was awfully repetitive, much too boring for me. While I loved baking scones and weaving lattices at home, that love simply didn’t translate to large-scale baking. Bread baking,…
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Poached Eggs & Avocado Toast
There is beauty in the poaching of an egg, in the way it swirls gently into togetherness. Water as land. Vinegar as air. Watch it. See how it starts out. Timid, first. Invisible, extant only by way of the bright yellow orb at its center. Drop! In the water, a ghostly, whirling specter as it…
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My Mother’s Challah
I’ve wanted to post my mother’s challah recipe for a while now. Things got in the way. I wanted to tweak it. She wanted to tweak it. We went on a challah making hiatus (what?!) But mostly I thought, who needs another challah recipe? The internet is full of them. They are all described as…
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Whole Wheat Sandwich Loaf
Ever since I started making sourdough bread, I’ve been giving other breads some serious side eye. Nothing is comparable to the taste and texture of sourdough and using instant yeast in place of a natural leavener seems like a major cop out to me. Why go the easy route when a slightly more involved one…
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Classic Jelly Doughnuts
Happy, happy Chanukah! I hope you’re all eating so many latkes. And doughnuts. I’ve already had 4, and it’s mostly thanks to these. I never want to lay eyes on another doughnut, but I think it was worth it. Only time will tell. These are my platonic ideal of a doughnut: light, fluffy, and endlessly…
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Buttery Dinner Rolls
It’s November! Welcome, morning frost and fresh cranberries. Welcome, soup and tea and nights-that-are-dark-too-early. Welcome, month of pies and all things good! This year, I’m hosting a Friendsgiving gathering at my house. We’re doing away with a lot of the traditional Thanksgiving foods, like turkey and stuffing, (mostly because we are teenage girls and there…
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Six Impossible Things
Here we are! At the crossroads of summer and fall. There is, despite the sadness I feel as I see summer go, something beautiful about this seamless changing of seasons. The days are hot but the nights are cool. Peaches and tomatoes are as abundant as ever, but local apples have taken up residence in…
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Heirloom Tomatoes with Chili Oil, Pesto and Mozzarella
Here is a little recipe for the unofficial last day of summer. Except, this isn’t a recipe so much as a suggestion, in the way that tomatoes suggest a sprinkling of salt, and that pesto suggests gratings of cheese, and that it all suggests a hunk of bread. In other words, here is a plate…
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Honeyed Asparagus, Beet & Chevre Crostini
For one hot minute, I thought spring wasn’t going to come. I envisioned endless winter nights, sunglasses that would never see the light of day, too many oranges, and a devastating dearth of peaches. I doubted spring, and I wanted to cry. But then something magical happened: hope appeared, first in the guise of a…
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Six Impossible Things
Last week was one of those weeks when everything just aligned. I organized my room, made a pile of clothing to donate, and did a little DIY project to spruce things up. I also finally got Tartine’s bread book, a dutch oven and a kitchen scale, and with those implements, succeeded in making amazing sourdough…
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