the runaway penguin

This summer Mo and I craved these spring rolls and walked for two hours to get the rice paper. Unlike Thai spring rolls, which are fried, th...

It was a full house for Thanksgiving, with 18 adults, one 3 year old, and a set of 7 month old twins, so most of us slept at one of the loca...

I've come across this kind of knot in Noro before, but this surprised me. The Rowan cotton has so far seemed predictable and uniform. I ...

Another loaf! I made it a few days ago, so we've actually eaten all of it already. It's strange being able to see exactly how much y...

The baking holiday is over. All ovens are now open for business. When Mo and I eat out, we are most likely to end up at the local Moroccan r...

As the weather is expected to be Wicked Hot for a while, I have declared a Baking Holiday. The oven will remain closed and no dough will be ...

I have never been aware of this before, but when I took this loaf out of the oven it sounded like a bowl of Rice Krispies. I've never re...

This weekend a friend of ours had a birthday party. I was visiting my brother up at camp in the Adirondacks, but I helped Mo make a sandcast...

A fitting end for a fine loaf. The bizarre looking black things are local black rasberries. I guess from the picture they look like blackber...

Two weeks ago Mo and I made a command performance for Gaby's son E. and his friends from summer daycare. They walked and got pulled in a...

Dry. Very dry. And only 26 hours after being taken out of the oven, so clearly that extra half hour of baking had some effect. We stored it ...

As you can see, I forgot to take a picture before we started eating. The recipe was from the back of our 10 lb bag of King Arthur flour, and...

Mo and I had a delicious dinner tonight. Chicken with garlic, onion, and wild black trumpet mushrooms. Black trumpets which we picked oursel...