Archive for June 2008
Time to Cook
One of the best things about summer is having enough time to cook. Heck, it’s great having time to just think about food. This week, having munched my way through all the tortilla chips, and, OK, cookies, that we had sitting around in the house, I’ve been thinking a lot about replacing our stock with home made things. The first thing on my mind is bread.
I made popovers twice, with great success, with this recipe from Perfect Popovers:
http://home.insightbb.com/~bonnett/popover/popovers_step_by_step.htm
( P.S. In the wise words of Mom: “Don’t Open the Oven!” )
Today, I’m raising the stakes and attempting a no-knead bread recipe that I first read about in Vogue quite a while ago. Mark Bittman of the New York Times picked up on it, and did a story and a video about it sometime back. I’ve been meaning to try it ever since.
Since he says it’s so easy a six year old can make it, I’ve been calling it 6 Year Old Bread…
It looks like even the headline is protected by copyright, but, here’s the link to the story: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/08/dining/08mini.html#
And here’s the link to the video:
http://video.on.nytimes.com/?fr_story=35eac03d90314ffed6a0c0ae143ab87b1474fb89
