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Saturday, December 29, 2007 It's very late in the day, or in the year, to talk about holiday baking, but since Jim has been dutiful...

December 16, 2007 My friend Mary invited Jim and me for dinner last night for some pheasant that she had been given by a hunter. I put the ...

November 9, 2007 Remember last year about this time when Mark Bittman's No-Knead Bread swept the country? It was easy to make, it made ...

Sunday, December 2, 2007 Rose mentioned making Jeffrey Hammelman's oatmeal bread for her father a few weeks ago, and that mention made m...

November 25, 2007 I love this bread. It's one of the few from The Bread Bible that I've repeated--it's worth repeating because...

Sunday, November 25, 2007 First of all, I'm done with the novel. After an all-day stint of writing yesterday, I got to "The End...

Thursday, November 22, 2007 "Mom, I have to bring bread on Thanksgiving." "I thought you were making a Key Lime pie." ...

Sunday, November 18, 2007 Novel or no, I felt the need to bake bread this weekend, so I tried another bread from Maggie Glezer's beautif...

Saturday, November 17, 2008 One really nice thing about having frozen pizza dough on hand is that you almost always have a few things on han...

November 11, 2007 Today I came up for air from this crazy novel-writing escapade long enough to bake a loaf of bread. Jim has not complaine...

Sunday, October 21, 2007 After weighing myself on Friday morning, I decided it was time to get serious about losing a few pounds. In the la...

Sunday, October 14, 2007 This is another bread from Maggie Glezer's book. The "Tom Cat" part of the name doesn't refer to...

Sunday, October 7, 2007 While the roasted garlic bread was undergoing its second rise, Clea, one of my very favorite 2 1/2-year olds, and I ...

Sunday, October 7, 2007 I got a beautiful new bread cookbook, Maggie Glezer's Artisan Baking , in which she visits various bakeries arou...

Friday, October 5, 2007 This is my fourth try at pizza using Peter Reinhart's recipe. I think I'm finally getting the hang of it. ...

Monday, September 17, 2007 Yesterday I wrote a whole blog entry about baking buttermilk currant scones and buttermilk bread to use up the re...