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Daring Bakers: First Challenge!
Tweet Wow… after a lot of difficulty, I’ve finally participated in my first Daring Bakers Challenge… and I loved it! The challenge this month was for French bread. “Perfect,” thinks I, “I live in...
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Simple Sandwich
Tweet I found this picture lurking from when the Daring Bakers baked baguette back in the winter. This is what I did with mine, besides just eat it plain: slathered with mustard, some good roquefort...
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I Made My Own Roti!
Tweet I have mentioned The English One on this blog before. We met in college, and ever since, we have been best friends, even when he moved back to Wales and I kept living in Canada. Now he lives near...
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Le Quignon
Tweet For my father, the worst possible thing that could happen to any of his daughers would be if we were to end up “playing house.” My mother is a stay-at-home mom, but even though he married her and...
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Cucugnan
Tweet Yes, the moment you’ve all been waiting for. I am here. I am ready. Today is the day that I finally get off my lazy butt and tell you all about our visit to the local artisan baker, the boulanger...
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It’s all in the family…
Tweet I never wanted to go into the family business–then again, when your math skills are sub-par and the “family business” is an economic career you barely understand, it’s not a difficult decision to...
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Bent-Out-of-Shape Pretzels
Tweet I sometimes wonder who the first person was who decided to use the phrase “bent out of shape” to describe another human being. It makes me think of a paperclip that someone’s bent and distorted...
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A Tale of Two Brioches
Tweet At first glance, they don’t look anything alike; I know. And yet, both the shiny-with-butter French brioche up top and the sprinkled-with-colored-sugar New Orleans Kings cake underneath are made...
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Yeasted Beer Bread and Pumpkin Truffle Soup
Tweet It’s fairly trendy to be a geek nowadays. There are all sorts of infographics on the web, explaining how people can tell if they’re a geek, nerd or dork. There’s even a web-wide scandal...
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Seafood Chowder
Tweet There are things they don’t tell you about living in Paris. They don’t tell you, for instance, that no matter how much you feel that it’s your home, someone who has no bearing on your life — or...
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Medieval Dinner
Working in Paziols is unlike working anywhere else: at most jobs, you arrive and you know approximately what your day is going to look like–make some calls, finish a project or two, meetings… In...
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Soulatgé, bread, pottery
There comes a time, every fall, when I start to realize quite how much I miss Paziols. Leaving Paziols isn’t like leaving New York. I never stay in New York long; I’m never quite ready to leave. But...
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Smørrebrød
I’m definitely running behind when it comes to the obsession with all things Danish. 2016 was apparently the year of hygge (or the year that hygge became the most annoying word, depending on who you...
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Brioche and Victor Hugo
I’ve loved the story of Les Misérables for years, but I’ll admit, I didn’t actually read the 513,000-word (that’s 2,000 pages, pocket edition) book until I had to, for my Master’s thesis. And that was...
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