You caught me “Popularist! Popularist!” I hear you chant. But it’s hard not to adopt the properties of your environment. You are the sum of the people and places you most interact with, and for me, that’s food, and foodies. Especially, baked food, and bakers. I love it, love baking. From Bara Brith to Brown, cookies …
The morning after the party. Strange place to start a recipe, true, but bear with me. Arms heavy (thankfully no spaghetti or vomit), air even heavier, I trudge blind into the kitchen. It’s clean, a testament to OCD’s power over alcohol. However, a functioning kitchen is only the first step of the leftover re-purposing marathon …
That is beautiful! – Massimo Bottura Kind words considering the mess in front of me…and the wasted hours behind me. Maybe I should explain what the original intention here was. As part of my recent obsession with thepastrydepartment.com, I was planning on trial running a pastry recipe for a lemon tart. Specifically, a recipe for making …