Posted in Food and drink on Apr 12th, 2008
Check out those blisters on the crust of my last batch of sourdough bread.
I baked it inside a cloche:
Here’s the bread inside:
It was delicious.
My mother-in-law, Andrea, has been baking sourdough bread for years. A few years ago, while out on a visit, she taught me how to make it. She turned me on to Nancy [...]
Posted in Food and drink on Mar 29th, 2008
Photos by Gavin
Posted in Food and drink on Mar 17th, 2008
Brownie Points posted a tutorial last week on how to make your own butter. Gavin and I tried it this weekend. It was one of the most fun things I’ve ever done in the kitchen.
You whip heavy pasteurized (but not ultrapasteurized) cream using the wire whisk attachment on a KitchenAid mixture. You whip it until [...]
Posted in Food and drink, Green on Mar 17th, 2008
I use this extra extra-large shower cap to cover bread dough while it’s rising in this big bowl. Smaller see-through hair dying caps are good for covering normal-sized bowls of leftovers in the fridge when you want to be able to glance through and see what is inside them.
I found this idea in Nancy Silverton’s [...]
Posted in Food and drink on Jan 29th, 2008
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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 [...]
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!)
Pie Crust
Because the [...]
Posted in Food and drink on Jan 6th, 2008
Gavin invented this drink:
Brandy sour
(Makes 2 drinks)
3 oz. brandy
juice of one lemon
juice of one small orange or tangerine (even better)
2 teaspoons sugar or simple syrup
dash of bitters
2 maraschino cherries and a little cherry juice from the jar
If using sugar, squeeze all the citrus juice into the shaker, and stir in sugar. Add ice to shaker. [...]
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