The fourth loaf
Posted in Food and drink on Jan 29th, 2008
Monthly Archive for January, 2008
Bowtie pasta drying on the counter
Posted in Food and drink on Jan 29th, 2008
The first loaf
Posted in Food and drink on Jan 29th, 2008
Making sourdough starter from scratch
Posted in Food and drink on Jan 21st, 2008
I’ve been making sourdough starter from scratch using Nancy Silverton’s Breads from the La Brea Bakery recipe. It’s a two-week process. You start with flour, water and organic grapes, you monitor the room temperature, you’re careful about the temperature of the water that you add, you feed it on a rigid schedule, you don’t let [...]
Yesterday
Posted in Miscellaneous on Jan 17th, 2008
Yesterday, a cat who I was getting to know died. I found him in the morning, stiff, with his eyes open, laying next to our trashcans out in the street with a little bit of blood on the ground near his head. He used to watch me in the back yard from a distance. He [...]
Morning light
Posted in Miscellaneous on Jan 15th, 2008
Kitchen in the morning
Posted in Miscellaneous on Jan 15th, 2008
The venus fly traps are still alive. The trick is to give them only distilled water. I have a sprig of rosemary on the window sill. It’s growing roots. Next to it is a fighter jet I found in the back yard. And here’s the tea kettle on the stove.
What’s funny in our house today
Posted in Links on Jan 14th, 2008
Weight Watchers recipe cards, circa 1974 (again) — be sure to click through them all Bill Gates’s last days at Microsoft mindy does minneapolis: 10 Stupid Places to Meet Men
Flower silhouette
Posted in Garden on Jan 12th, 2008
Apple pie
Posted in Food and drink on Jan 8th, 2008
(photo by Gavin) I remember the first time I ate this apple pie. It was the first time Gavin invited me over to his house, and we made it together. It was his mom’s recipe. Every time I eat it, I think about that early date. Here’s the recipe, verbatim. (I hope that’s okay, Andrea!) [...]