May 2020 posts

Tuesday, 19 May 2020
staying at home: more ranting about yeast
summary: empty shelves and once a week supermarket shopping; one-way aisles; viral fatigue; commercial yeast is still in the toilet paper category; differences between active dry, instant, and rapid-rise yeasts; needless additives; ranting and raving again; where IS all the yeast?

Saturday, 16 May 2020
Wild Cottage Loaf (BBB May 2020)
summary: recipe for Wild Cottage Loaf; Still staying at home – of course we are; no more snow please; spring; information about Bread Baking Babes;

Friday, 15 May 2020
Wordless Not-Wednesday: Cornbread
summary: staying at home: cornbread; comfort food; cheddar cheese is best thinly sliced – thin, thin, thin; the butter is hard...; fun with new (to us) iphone camera; a Wordless Not-Wednesday post

Friday, 8 May 2020
Delving into the Archives: Onion and Leek Lasagne
summary: delving into the archives; recipe for onion and leek lasagne [inspiration: onion lasagna, p.178-179 in The Italian-American Cookbook by John and Galina Mariani]; mushroom lasagne; squash ravioli; getting inspiration by re-reading back-issues of SAVEUR Magazine;

Saturday, 2 May 2020
Staying at Home: Isolation Baking and Orange Spiced Butter
summary: the inimitable Jamie Schler has another cookbook out: "Isolation Baking"; still staying at home; baking powder biscuits; delving into the archives: orange spiced butter from "Orange Appeal";