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Sunday, June 25, 2006 This is the 41st recipe I've tried! That means I'm halfway there--I've baked 41 out of 82 recipes from T...

Saturday, June 24, 2006 I was a little apprehensive about making focaccia again since my first attempt was not successful, but this is an ab...

Sunday, June 18, 2006 As it was Father's Day today, I told Jim he could pick the bread du jour. He picked stud muffin, more for the nam...

Wednesday, June 14, 2006 My nephew Bob asked me to repeat the strawberry shortcake that I made last month. I'm not repeating recipes fo...

Tuesday, June 6, 2006 We've rented a beach house in North Carolina next week, for a family reunion. Staying at the beach in the summer ...

Saturday, June 3, 2006 When I asked Jim what kind of bread he wanted this weekend, he said, "a crusty one." Instead of telling him...

Monday, May 30, 2006 I've been thinking about baking this monkey bread for a couple of weeks, but it looked very rich, sweet, buttery, a...

May 22-27, 2006 After being assured that it was not cheating to order sourdough starter instead of making my own, I ordered two different st...

Saturday, May 20, 2006 This is the kind of bread that my mother and grandmothers made when they made "homemade bread." Simple, ba...

Sunday, May 14, 2006 Jim and I had a small tiff about the strawberry shortcake. I said I wanted it for dessert on Mother's Day, and ...

Saturday, May 13, 2006 First of all, I have to admit that this is not a ten-grain torpedo; it's a six-grain. I couldn't find a ten...

Tuesday, May 9, 2006 It was my turn to bring bread to book club tonight, so I decided to make a Swedish bread in Minneapolis, this very Sw...

Sunday, May 7, 2006 Wow--it is so fast and easy to make quick breads! I decided it was time for another non-yeast bread, because I hadn...

Thursday, May 4, 2006 I include this picture just to prove that I don't only talk about my successes. The topknot of this brioche was...

Saturday, April 29, 2006 I'll admit this bread is not as photogenic as the Pugliese, but that's only because I ignored Rose's ...

Saturday, April 29, 2006 I made an Italian feast for eight people today--a feast that required two different loaves of bread; I'll giv...

Saturday, April 22, 2006 There are four recipes in The Bread Bible that scare me: sourdough (because you have to make a starter that cou...

Monday, April 17, 2006 I know that I've become bread-crazed when the first thing I did when I got home from the airport--before even u...

Sunday, April 9, 2006 Why have I never made popovers before? I always thought they were hard, but they're not at all. They behaved e...

Sunday, April 9, 2006 I'm making a birthday dinner for Sarah. I told her I wanted to make popovers and I'd also make some matzoh...