baking
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Expectation vs. Reality: The 3%
“Healing is not a linear climb to the summit; it is a walk through the woods, sometimes getting lost, but always learning the terrain.” If you’ve been here for a while, you are aware that I was diagnosed with Alpha… Continue reading
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Dough It Yourself: Make Homemade Sourdough Work For You
“The best loaves are shaped by hand and heart.” -Traditional Proverb Are you too intimidated by sourdough to give it a go? Trust me, I completely understand. I put it off for a long time because it just seemed like… Continue reading
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From Vine to Table: Discovering the Hidden Treasure of the Wild Passion Vine
“Be Like a Passion Fruit: vibrant, full of flavor, and true to your unique essence.” Passiflora Incarnata, also known as Purple Passionflower, Maypop and Wild Passion Vine The fruit of the Wild Passion Vine is one of my absolute favorite… Continue reading
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Perfect House
“That house was a perfect house. Whether you like food or sleep, or storytelling or singing, or just sitting and thinking best or a pleasant mixture of them all. Merely to be there was a cure for weariness, fear, and… Continue reading
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Pineapple Weed (Wild Chamomile)
“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.” A.A. Milne Identification: Pineapple weed, also known as wild chamomile, and disc mayweed, is an annual plant that freely re-seeds itself. Green-yellow cone-shaped flowerheads with no petals appear from March… Continue reading
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Messy Mistakes
“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”― Niels Bohr I began my sourdough journey at the beginning of the year. My first loaf was okay but not great.… Continue reading