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Sourdough Cliffhanger!

We’re phoning it in a bit today, as we’re both busy at work, and the holiday season is taking up most of our weekends and evenings. However, we wanted to give a quick update on the sourdough experiment from last week. The bread turned out great, but wasn’t very sour at all. I improvised a …

December 14, 2006 – 3:28 pm | By chrisandcamri | Posted in Food | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Sourdough!

We’re trying to bake something new every weekend, for the most part we’ve kept our promise to ourselves. We’ve tried a handful of variations on the no knead bread recipe from the New York Times, some whole wheat buttermilk biscuits, and a cookie or two. This week, we’re trying something we haven’t in the past …

December 7, 2006 – 3:26 pm | By chrisandcamri | Posted in Food | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Pot Bread

Last week, the New York Times made a bold claim. It had nothing to do with Iraq, the election, or our rights slowly being chipped away at by our hateful government, it was about bread. Specifically, it was about one New York baker’s claim that the traditional 12 steps of baking can do with one …

November 16, 2006 – 3:06 pm | By chrisandcamri | Posted in Food | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

Fall Baking

It dipped below fifty degrees here in Chicago this week, which makes us start thinking about Fall Baking. Those gigantic candles with names like “all american apple pie” and “peach cobbler crisp” don’t compare to the real thing. We bake pretty frequently during the cold months, lots of biscuits, scones, and big “rustic” loafs of …

September 19, 2006 – 2:19 pm | By chrisandcamri | Posted in Food | Tagged , | Comments (0)