sourdough

a post-vaccine life motto i’ve adopted: seek more opportunities to turn ordinary moments into special ones. i buy all the flowers at the farmers market stand as it closes and cover every surface of my apartment with them. i lug bushels of apples home to READ MORE

what do you really need to bake good sourdough bread? baking in taipei, without my usual suite of tools, has really pushed me to reflect on this question. i optimistically brought doug, my sourdough starter, with me, to taiwan. i say optimistically because it turns READ MORE

i’ve always considered dill to be a second tier herb. my mother cooked with a multitude of herbs, often, even growing chives and green onions in our backyard. during peak harvest times, my mother would cook nothing but chives for weeks at a time — READ MORE

i made this tiny sourdough reel for april fools’ inspired by how “small batch” has taken off this past year. it quickly became my most popular post! i’m blown away by the response, and wanted to share a longer video and process with all of READ MORE

i ended last year hung up on three things. the first: a boy (isn’t it always?). quarantine fact: break ups are much, much harder during a global pandemic when there is not much else to do except sit on a rollercoaster ride of uncomfortable feelings READ MORE

after a rejuvenating august, i intended for september to be a time to discover sourdough steamed buns. instead, i found myself grappling with a lack of motivation and curiosity for most things i normally loved. i felt overwhelmed by the world, and drained by my READ MORE

we could all use a little more comfort in our lives right now, even in the blistering heat of summer. for me, no other food combination spells out comfort more than cheese and carbs. this loaf deliciously combines the best of both worlds. the savory READ MORE

i wish i could say that perusing the olive and cheese selection at the park slope food coop is what inspired me to make this loaf, but alas. i must confess i made this loaf because i once loved a man who really, really loved READ MORE

i don’t talk about ken forkish enough. i really should because he changed my life. in 2016, my coworker, artur, brought in a loaf of bread (so crusty, so good) and evangelized a book he used to make it, flour water salt yeast (fwsy, for READ MORE

we are officially in the thicket of winter, which for most people means a miserable period of darkness and coldness and wetness and <insert your other gloomy adjectives of choice>. but from misery breeds opportunity i say! an opportunity to indulge and find comfort in READ MORE

flour bakery in cambridge, ma was the first bakery i truly fell in love with. in college, i’d walk the 15 minutes from my dorm on tuesday late afternoons to order my usual breakfast sandwich and a pot of tea, sitting by window doing homework READ MORE

my only childhood bagel experiences were the day old, half priced bruegger’s asiago bagels my friends and i would sneak out of statistics class to buy at our high school cafeteria. when i moved to nyc, i entered the bagel mecca itself, and oh i READ MORE

peanut butter and jelly. apples and cheddar. chocolate milk shakes and fries. these are the three iconic sweet savory duos from my american childhood. as i’ve had the opportunity to travel and try new foods in the past 10 years, i’ve discovered a variety of READ MORE

venturing into the unknown world of mix-ins and non-flour/water/salt ingredients has always intimidated me. i get nervous about the crumb closing, or the additional ingredients weighing the dough down, or the dough becoming way too sticky. i didn’t approach experimentation as a way to be READ MORE

2019 has been the year of einkorn. i am nothing short of obsessed. this is how serious it is: i haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since trying a 100% einkorn sample loaf from bread alone at last year’s growNYC home baker’s meetup READ MORE