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Description: Adventures in Dairy-Free Cooking
Well, clearly I haven’t been updating this blog very much. But I have a good reason! I’ve started a new, more general cooking blog called mooflyfood . A large percentage of what I post there is dairy-free, though, so if you’ve enjoyed this blog, please check out the Dairy-Free section of mooflyfood !
Today Ed and I made bread. We used the recipe from the Tassajara Bread Book , my mom’s stained, yellowed copy from the 70’s. It has her name — her maiden name — written inside the front cover in her youthful handwriting. I highly recommend buying this book, as it has lots of great explanations, illustrations, variations, and recipes. Not to mention, it’s the quintessential hippy bread book, and reading it is a truly peaceful experience. As an added bonus, the book is deeply local for me, having been written
I remember my mom making bread quite regularly when I was growing up, undoubtedly taking her cues from the Tassajara Bread Book . Baking bread is one of those activities that’s uniquely suited to being at home all day raising children — it doesn’t take much active time, but you do have to attend to it every hour or so. And it’s interesting to find that, so many years later, my experience baking bread (knowing what it should look like, how it should feel, and how I should handle the dough) is a largely intui
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