Since my daughter was born I have found my energy ebbing and flowing back and forth to this blog. Sometimes I wonder if I should bother posting any more as I seem to have so little time for any of my own pursuits these days including building and testing my own recipes. But I amRead more
In just over a month my little one will turn two. While there is a small part of me that feels like the time has flown by, another, much larger part of me still feels the weight of all the days that have passed, all the days that I barely made it through and allRead more
Whew does it ever feel good to be back! It’s been a long 10 months since I posted anything here. Becoming a Mom last year completely changed my life. It has been one of the most amazing and rewarding experiences I’ve ever had, but my patience has been tested at every turn and a blindinglyRead more
It’s a weird world out there these days… last week when I saved Francesca (my rye sourdough starter) from the depths of my fridge to revive her, everything still felt relatively normal. This week there is a very different charge in the air. Everyone feels wary of each other, the lone neighbour we might seeRead more
It has been awhile! Between breaking my foot (all healed up now), exploring my roots in Germany with the hubby and getting my garden stuffed with plants for the Summer I haven’t been baking much at home lately. However, when I saw my yellow zucchini plant starting to produce waaaay too much I knew itRead more
It has been a least a year of testing and re-testing spelt sourdough breads, reading and following instructions in different bread books, I even took a friggin’ course on it and still I had yet to produce one loaf that was anything similar to my no knead bread with commercial yeast. That is until twoRead more
This is no joke my first blog post ever… it scares the living crap out of me and makes me want to leap up and down at the same time. This whole “food blog thing” as I have been calling it has been simmering around in my mind for more than a year now. Over theRead more