Scenes from My Pantry
Scenes from My Pantry: Homemade Hamburger Buns
Homemade Hamburger Buns Recipe from King Arthur Baking Lately, I have found myself drawn to baking bread. The baking process induces a sense of calm in my monkey brain. The tactile experience of kneading dough feels grounding, and unlike my other daily tasks, baking bread has clear beginning, middle, and end with a rewarding outcome.
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Easy Lemon Cookies
One bowl, five ingredients, what’s not to love! These lemon cookies are ready in a snap. Easy Lemon Cookies Makes 15-18 cookies
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Best Sourdough Banana Bread
If you are following my new adventures with Herman my sourdough you will not be disappointed in this banana bread recipe. I admit Herman is complicated, alive, and he’s beginning to feel like a member of the family. There are a million ways to make banana bread. I feel like I have made so many
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Best Sourdough Pancakes
I am late to the sourdough craze. During the pandemic I managed to avoid the sourdough baking adventure. Reminded me too much of the Amish friendship bread starters thirty years ago where I found myself babysitting a Ziploc bag of gloopy glob, that had to be fed and shared regularly with friends, neighbors, or whoever
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White Bean and Rice Soup
“New Year’s Day is every mans birthday” ~Charles Lamb Happy New Year! Cheers to all of life’s adventures that await you in 2024. What is it about the first day of January, that feels like we have been given an opportunity to once again to design our life rather than live it by default? We
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No Knead Bread and the Art of Procrastibaking
I am not a procrastinator by nature; quite the opposite the urge to start a task or project immediately and finish it as soon as possible is my oxygen and postponement is my agony, that is until recently. I’ve become a ‘procrastibaker’ I have taken up the practice of baking something unnecessary to avoid what