Mona is moderately content in her life persuading the scones they don’t want to burn, making gingerbread men dance and feeding the grumpy sourdough starter called Bob that lives in the cellar and eats rats if they get too close. But this is a fairy tale so Mona gets thrown into a bigge...
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Step Three: stop across the street at the grocery store and pick up some pre-packed salad, a tiny sourdough loaf, a couple of bottles of juice, and some hummus. Step Four: walk the mile to the botanical gardens. The walk between the shipping place and the botanical garden is nowhere ne...
Crap, I can hear the remnants of the slight lisp I had as a child[addressedin this blog], which resurfaces when I’m tired or need a glass of water…and danged if I don’t hear the echo of my family tones – specifically, my two sisters’ – in my own voice….). You’d have...
I sit now, all by myself in the morning sun (with HT away for an exam), with my basic bitch breakfast of avocado on sourdough toast and a latte, admiring the simple pleasa
Trying not to micromanage them to the point of uselessness for all (“Let them be happy, free children!” BUT DO NOT LET THEM GET HARMED IN ANY WAY WHATSOEVER.) Spending so much goddamn money on food at every meal you resort to buying loaves of sourdough at grocery stores and throwing...
Had a delicious sourdough pizza and a local hazy IPA I can’t forget at a place calledBrewers. Pointed at pigeons with pretty feathers. Found a spot where I’d spend a lot of my writing time if I lived there; place is calledKopps. ...
I think a lot of you are interested in getting good at sourdough bread making, I live in France and work in an artisan bakery, so I though I would try to teach some of you. I am not an expert yet, but I know enough to get you going in making bread. First step, is getting ...