Michelle Lopez, the blogger behind Hummbingbird High, has a cookbook out: Weeknight Baking: Recipes to Fit Your Schedule. It's filled with recipes that not only come together quickly, but that also can (and often should) be assembled over the course of several days. Michelle breaks down recipes ...
2 Tips for No-Shrink Pie Crust + Pie Crust Cookies
Winter Tabbouleh with Roasted Delicata Squash
Last week, while chatting about our Thanksgiving menus, a friend reminded me of a moment in Salt Fat Acid Heat in which Samin Nosrat laments the absence of acid, with the exception of cranberry sauce, on the Thanksgiving table. In the scene, Samin recounts one Thanksgiving, during which she found ...
How to Activate, Feed, and Maintain a Sourdough Starter
If you are interested in dipping your toe into sourdough bread baking, for starters you'll need a starter. There are many great resources on the web for building a starter from scratch, but I suggest buying one. I outline why in more detail here — Sourdough Focaccia: A Beginner's Guide — but in ...
Easy, Whole Wheat(-ish) Sourdough Bread
Sourdough is often described as a journey. The more I make it, the more this sentiment becomes a truth. For the past few years, I've been tinkering with various sourdough recipes, and though I can't say I won't stop tinkering, this is the current snapshot of my sourdough journey. These are the ...
Essential Equipment for Sourdough Bread Baking
You don't need any fancy equipment to make sourdough bread. If you have a sourdough starter and some sort of baking vessel on hand, you can start baking. This sourdough focaccia recipe, for instance, requires nothing more than a sourdough starter and a 9x13-inch baking vessel or something ...
