Tag: the holidays

  • uncooked

    uncooked

    What is your best winter treat recipe this year? I have been somewhat remiss in my kitchen efforts this whole year, falling back on a routine of regular home cooked meals, sure, but flopping spectacularly when it comes to anything more adventurous or creative. In fact, the Kid has almost entirely taken over on the

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  • What a fruitcake?

    What a fruitcake?

    December 17 of 31 December-ish posts First, before you read any further and must feel that crushing disappointment of yet another recipe blog that doesn’t seem to put the recipes at the top of the page, while you scroll to the bottom and try to find something resembling an ingredient list, let me be honest and up

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  • Local Flours Sours: Duchess Bread (Part One)

    You know your family thinks you are slightly obsessed about something when supporting your hobby winds up under the Christmas tree in holiday gift form. After baking some hundreds of loaves of sourdough the last couple years, I guess my family has noticed my obsession. This year I received a 5kg bag of bread flour

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  • Merry Christmas

    What did you want this year … and get? Too much. As I was wrapping up my work email for the holiday break yesterday, thumbing through my last few messages, a long thank you note rolled in from the president of a company with which my team does a significant amount of business. It concluded

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  • Salted Toffee Crisps

    For the span of a whole weekend in early December it seemed like I couldn’t look on my social media feeds and subscriptions without seeing a recipe for some kind of homemade chocolate toffee bar. In fact, I saw this (or a variation of this) recipe online on Youtube, Instagram, and Twitter no less than

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