Today I’m going to tell you a story about a girl who does not know how to read directions. Or rather, a girl who knows how to read directions but who sometimes bites off more than she can chew and neglects to follow them. This girl is a repeat offender in the multitasking arena. She’s been known to drag her unwilling laptop into the kitchen so that she can Twitter while she’s cooking dinner. Sometimes she has her radio and…
It’s pretty common in American culture to blame our schedules for poor eating habits. Excuses like “I’m too busy to cook dinner,” “It’s faster to order take-out during the week,” and “I worked long hours, so I deserve macaroni and cheese” are all fairly common among the average kitchen-phobe. When your life is busy with school, work or a move (or a blog move), sometimes the last thing you feel like doing is cooking. When you have a never-ending to…
When I signed on with Nicole to do the Bread Bakers Apprentice Challenge I had no idea what I was getting into. I thought, I’ll bake some ciabatta, I’ll do a little Twittering and maybe make a bloggy bread baker friend or two. Fast forward to five – is it really only five??? – weeks later and you might find me where I was on Tuesday night: up to my elbows in bread flour with stray remnants of coarse cornmeal underfoot. If…