Baking

I Was a Liberal Arts Major

In Baking, Creative Nonficiton, Family, Miscellany on 9 April 2010 with no comments

Having cleaned the kitchen yes­ter­day, I decided to mess it up again with a batch of 36 hour choco­late chip cook­ies. I made them right before I picked up my son from school at 3:00.
When my hus­band asked me what our Friday night plans were, I replied, “Cookies! I made a batch of those 36 hour […]

Donuts Are Delicious

In Baking, Family, Miscellany on 15 November 2009 with no comments

The best place to get donuts in Austin is Mrs. Johnson’s bak­ery. They keep weird hours, appeal­ing, osten­si­bly, to the 420 crowd, but the donuts are soft and fluffy and not too sweet. Good tex­ture, good taste, and they always give you a nice, hot glazed to eat in your car along with the rest […]

Epilogue to a Rainy Day

In Baking, Family on 9 November 2009 with no comments

Rainy days demand good food. My idea of good food is home­made bread and a deli­cious soup. Yesterday we pigged out on grilled cheese sand­wiches made with home­made bread, and home­made tomato soup with mozzerella and basil.
We were some happy sons of guns up in this house.
This is my bread recipe.
This ain’t a food blog, so yo […]

To Bake A Cake

In Baking, Family, Miscellany on 26 October 2009 with no comments

I love to bake. The pri­mary rea­son I made Gracey Daylittle a pie baker is because it gave me an excuse to make lots of pie in the name of research.
But I, myself, am pri­mar­ily a bread and cake baker.
Today is my husband’s 35th birth­day, and I am mak­ing him an Italian cream cake. When […]