July 2013 – No Thyme to Waste

July 30, 2013February 10, 2014

Pickle Juice Bread: Drooling & Appreciating Life’s Little Things.

After a long shitty week of constant, bad news… health, financial, you name it; I’m stressed about it! – I’ve finally got light at the end of the tunnel. Slowly, things start to look up in life, no matter how terrible they might seem in the moment. I guess I’m a bit of a worry-wart…

July 29, 2013July 25, 2016

Making Frank: How Bread Starters Relate to Cartoons from the 90’s.

Here “He” is. Welcome Frank to the world. Frank marks Day #1 of the Pet in a Jar Project. Frank is a bread dough starter made with some key ingredients, two of which I had no idea could or should, be used in a starter (or leaven as this particular one is called). Most starters are made…

July 25, 2013September 7, 2013

Back to Basics: Reasons for Making Your Own Bread.

I can’t take credit for the recipe that I’m about to give you for the bread pictured above, however I can refer you to Dan Lepard’s book; The Art of Handmade Bread, Contemporary European Recipes for the Homebaker. This is a fantastic find, at a staggering $20.00 CAD! (Go buy it, seriously.) Lepard has a skill for…

July 22, 2013November 5, 2013

When Boredom Strikes… Bake Your Way to the Dentist’s Chair.

Here in the busy city of Toronto, and specifically in the Hospitality world, we are awaiting the boom better known as; the Toronto International Film Festival. This ‘festival’ of sorts brings hundreds of thousands (nearly half a million to be exact) of industry professionals to our lovely city, just after Labour Day in mid-September. ‘TIFF’…