I made chocolatines (basically chocolate croissants) today and it was a great decision. The process- which is way easier than it sounds- involves making a giant butter patty and folding it into dough. A GIANT BUTTER PATTY. Like, yes please? The whole recipe was actually kind of relaxing. I started by making the giant butter patty…

I was feeling festive today, and also kinda bored. Like I had plennnnty of time to waste proofing dough. It’s probably more accurate to say that I had plenty of time to ignore my actual real life responsibilities like washing my clothes and doing my dishes and I instead decided to make more dishes, which I…

There’s this bakery half an hour from my house that makes really good poppy seed bread. Growing up, I was well aware that my entire family was obsessed with it. I wasn’t a big fan, because poppy seeds were gross and kinda freaked me out because they looked like tiny bugs. But then one day…

Let’s talk about butter. It is a quality ingredient. And until today I never really thought you could put too such butter on a piece of bread. Guess what… turns out you can. I made garlic bread today. It was insanely good, and then I made a garlic butter spread to put on it. I’m really…

I was feelin a strong hankerin for chocolate this morning. Like, whether or not I ate it wasn’t going to be an option. It was happening. But after deciding this I realized that the only chocolate I had was in the form of (1) hot chocolate mix and (2) an Easter bunny my friend’s mom…

I really like green tea, because it makes me feel healthy. Sometimes, I’ll get ice cream from Ben and Jerry’s, and then I’ll be like, “my belly is so full of sugar and butter… better have some green tea to cancel that out”. I don’t actually know what antioxidants are, but I’ve convinced myself that…

Today, unlike most days, someone actually specifically asked me if I would make bread for a dinner I was going to. So I obviously said “SURE!” just about as enthusiastically as it seems like I would. And then, naturally, the day came to made the bread and I realized that I was out of yeast….

I’m new to the world of dessert breads. I haven’t really done it before, unless you count putting chocolate syrup on toast. It’s actually delicious, so whatever. But today I decided I was going to make the baguettes I have come to love, with added chocolate. I was supposed to bring a dessert to an…

I made an excellent choice today. I was walking down the street today and scrolling through pinterest when I saw a baguette. And I real-life exclaimed “baguette!” in a very excited tone while strolling down the sidewalk. Then I had to look around to see if there was anyone near me that I would have to…

I finally did something right. Turns out that if you don’t mess up the instructions on a recipe, it actually comes out the way it’s supposed to. So weird, right? Literally nothing went wrong. I don’t know how it happened, and I don’t know if I could replicate it. Somehow the oven didn’t break and…

I’ve spent the past week trying to make levain, the started for sourdough. As some of you may remember, the last time I tried to make levain I messed up in like 12 different ways and ended up making a brick of charcoal instead. So this time I pretended I didn’t care. When I was mixing the…

I tried to make milk bread today, which is supposed to be a delicious soft buttery bread with a thin yummy crust. However, it was ME making it, so it didn’t end up that way. That’s not entirely fair. It’s still pretty yummy, it just smells like beer because I let it over-ferment because sometimes I…