On Monday, I invited the Tiny Kitchen Assistant’s best friend and her younger brother over to make muffins. Three kids under the age of four? What could possibly go wrong?
As you laugh at me from the safety of your clean kitchen, I have to admit that it went much better than I would have expected, [...]
Clarifying Complex Ideas
Tag Archive: baking
More Muffins, Now With Extra Assistants
Muffin Question
Readers: do you have a favorite muffin flavor? The boy wants to make muffins on Monday for his day off from preschool, and I’m looking for new variations. He’s suggested strawberry, which I’ve never seen before, but he says that, “if you can make a muffin with blueberries, you can make one with strawberries.” He’s [...]
Muffins
I’m doing a bit of a format change in the subjects. Since I now have the Cooking subsection of the blog, I no longer need to separate out the recipes with the Random Recipe tag. Also, the boy almost always cooks with me, so I’ll just include his commentary and insights along with the recipes.
Tonight’s [...]
Random Recipe #18A: More No-Knead Bread
When did I become the bread lady? After the success of the no-knead bread recipe, I became a bit obsessed with finding alternatives. What if I didn’t have 18 hours to wait for the bread to rise on its own?
Behold: simple crusty bread. I follow the recipe precisely until I get to step 3. Instead [...]
Another 40: Days 8 and 9
Perhaps I was a bit hasty in embarking on this 40-day challenge. Worse than my work schedule being uncooperative, the weather has been downright nasty. For the past several days, we’ve had overnight lows in the 20s. Considering the problems that I had in October with running on wet leaves, there’s no way that I’m [...]
Random Recipe #11: Rye!
Ever since I returned from my trip to Germany, I’ve had a low-grade obsession with bread. Â Bread is plentiful, simple and good in Germany, and I sought to replicate that at home.
By some stroke of Google luck, I stumbled across Pete Bakes! There, I found the strangest recipe for rye, a recipe that unlike every [...]
