Cooking, Recipe

Russian Black Bread

As requested on my Friday livestream here’s the recipe and a video of the making of my Russian Black Bread. This was also an experiment in videography and production by my Little Man. He came up with the idea, as we were preparing to do this, of making it into a school project: he is… Read More Russian Black Bread

Cooking, Recipe

Russian Black Bread

  I got inspired to make bread (thank you Bustednuckles) and didn’t want to just toss together a quick n’ easy loaf. So… This one. Dark, a touch bitter, complex, chewy, and takes all daggone day to make.  So worth it.  Note that this is a very heavy bread dough. I love my stand mixer… Read More Russian Black Bread

Cooking, Food

Baking Orgy

When I was much younger and more innocent that I can believe, looking back, my sister and I used to hold what we called baking orgies. About once a month, we’d spend practically the whole weekend making cookies, pies, bread, and whatever caught our fancy from the collection of cookbooks in the house (this was… Read More Baking Orgy