Taps mic...Testing, Testing...Oh hey, this still works!  After a much needed three month hiatus I finally fou

I've been cooking a lot of Serious Eats recipes lately and this one has been on my 'to-make' list for a very l

I did it! I made bread! You would think this should not be a notable achievement for someone who runs a bread

I know I've said it several times in the past few weeks but I really don't understand how people with complica

Life with Maple continues to be both fun and exhausting which means far less time for cooking.  I used to spe

When I was in 7th grade we had to complete an assignment where we found out the names of various local and wor

Bialys are a traditional Polish roll filled and topped with diced onions, bread crumbs or sometimes poppy or s

It snowed almost a foot earlier in the week and the winter weather, something we've been lacking this winter,

At one point our pantry and freezer housed almost a dozen types of flour.  These days I've trimmed that back

One of my favorite new shows last fall was Aziz Ansari's Master of None which stars Aziz as an actor, Dev, li

The artisan bread wave that has swept the country over the past several years has developed a few particularly

Do you ever have what seems to be a great original idea, only to have it turn out to be something tons of othe

Happy New Year!  I hope you enjoyed the long weekend as much as I did.  2015 finished on a high note with Mi

I've gone down some strange Youtube rabbit holes recently and last week somehow ended up watching videos of pe

Thanksgiving marks the important beginning of the holiday shopping season but also demarcates the start of the

On Saturday we had our first snowfall of the year (10 inches!) and it was the perfect day to stay inside and

Today I'm winding the clock back to revisit a basic sandwich loaf that I first posted about in May 2012.  I

Living in an apartment community in a college town means you are bound to get mail every now and again that is

I was an avid reader of the back of the cereal box as a child.  Call it nostalgia, but cereal companies these

"Why would anybody ever eat anything besides breakfast food?"  This question is posed at the end of two of my

What a weekend - Michigan football's 28-0 win over Maryland ended up being just the warm up act to another no-

Well, that was a fun weekend to be a Michigan football fan.  No doubt bolstered by their recent Photoshop Phr

Last week the weather signaled that it was fall and this week the produce available at the farmer's market fol

In case it seems to be otherwise these days, I promise this is still a bread blog.  Though I posted about spe

Three weeks after moving in I finally got around to using our oven!  A very busy summer is transitioning into

I think I tend to naturally gravitate towards fall and winter style meals so summer meal planning can be tough

Over the weekend we got the last of our stuff out of the old apartment and are officially moved in to our new

When I first started following various food blogs several years ago I was amazed at the incredible meals thatÂ

One of the great things about having a sourdough starter is sharing it with others looking to get into bread

In the summer we make a lot of 'kitchen sink' type meals.  Every two weeks we get a box of produce from Frog

I'm excited to be back and participating in the #BreadBakers group once again this month!  Summer craziness p

I haven't gotten much use out of my sourdough starter the past few weeks and instead have just been keeping it

A few years ago I spent weeks on end trying to make the perfect sandwich loaf.  After that I had a major Tart

I always imagine summer is going to be this period where I have nothing to do and have endless amounts of tim

Living in a small apartment prevents us from accumulating too much clutter.  There is, after all, only so muc

Most people regard Memorial Day as the start of the summer vacation season in the U.S.  This year for us I th