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Saturday, February 23, 2008 I have three dear friends, Beth, Karen, and Susan, from my law school class ('Class of '81). I continue...

Sunday, February 17, 2008 I've been talking about losing ten pounds ever since I started this blog. Sometimes I think I'm just fool...

Monday, February 11, 2007 I was planning to make another batch of dough from my new Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day book, but I kept th...

Saturday, February 9, 2008 Just a few days ago, I had two plastic containers of buttermilk bread dough in my refrigerator. Now I have none....

Saturday, February 2, 2008 As Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, meaning six more weeks of winter (in Minnesota, this is good news), I leafed...

Sunday, January 27, 2008 For the January coffee hours, I had, so far, made two different kinds of coffee cakes and one kind of scone, so it ...

Saturday, January 19, 2008 and Sunday, January 20, 2008 The biggest-selling cookbook around these parts is Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a D...

Saturday, January 19, 2008 Today was the third Saturday in our annual coffee-and-doughnut open houses, and it was a terrible scramble. The ...

Sunday, January 13, 2008 I made these two adorable loaves of bread because 1) I realized I hadn't made bread from Carol Field's The ...

Saturday, January 12, 2008 Our second Saturday coffee/doughnut open house, but I didn't feel like starting a yeast dough Friday night, s...

Sunday, January 6, 2008 A few weeks ago, I was reading Rose's blog , and she mentioned making an oatmeal bread for her father. Suddenly...

Saturday, January 6, 2008 It's time for our Saturday morning coffee hour open houses, which we've been doing for over ten years now....

Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2008 A few months ago, I made something I called "The Cupboard is Bare" pizza, and a reader named Carol commented...

December 31, 2007 On New Year's Eve, six couples from our neighborhood have a progressive dinner. The tradition started when progressiv...