Posted in book review, bread, favorites, healthy, whole grains, yeast bread on Mar 10th, 2010
As much as I love Peter Reinhart’s Whole Grain Breads, I’ve only made a few recipes from the book. Instead, I’ve been busy using his techniques to adapt my old favorite bread recipes to whole wheat versions. While you can, in general, simply substitute up to half of the flour in a bread recipe with [...]
Posted in book review, bread, freezer friendly, healthy, whole grains, yeast bread on Sep 11th, 2009
My guidelines for nutrition can pretty much be summed up by: Only eat when hungry. But don’t eat too much. Don’t eat processed crap. Eat as many fruits and vegetables as you can stand. Don’t be a baby about whole grains. I’ve been getting worse and worse about that last one recently. I’ve walked by [...]
Posted in book review, gluten free, healthy, italian, salad, side dish, vegetables on Jun 18th, 2009
I used to read cookbooks like novels. I don’t require pictures, and I don’t like to skip around – I’ll be annoyed making the chocolate cake from Chapter 10 if I’m still reading through Chapter 2′s salads. It feels like a spoiler; like when I was sad to see Gandalf die in The Fellowship of [...]
Posted in Bread Baker's Apprentice, book review, bread, freezer friendly, yeast bread on Jun 1st, 2009
It’s a good thing I had well-behaved friends for the most part in high school, because I am apparently highly susceptible to peer pressure. A new baking group has recently been formed, somewhat similar to Tuesday with Dorie, but baking their way through Peter Reinhart’s Bread Baker’s Apprentice. I resisted joining the group for a [...]
Posted in book review, citrus, cookies, dessert, freezer friendly, fruit on May 3rd, 2009
Is it possible to have a cookbook crush? I received Tartine in the mail three weeks ago, and I’ve hardly put it down since. I heard about the book when Mark recommended it, so I flipped through it one day in the bookstore. I flip through a lot of the books in the bookstore, but [...]
Posted in beef, book review, casserole, cheese, italian, pasta, vegetables on Jan 12th, 2008
I’ve been kept away from cooking for too long. Between holiday traveling and moving, it’s been at least a month since I did any serious cooking or baking. Every time I have a cooking dry spell like this, I end up thinking of food constantly. I start to make lists of what I want to [...]
