We’ve had dreadful weather outside for weeks now.  Gloomy, muggy, wet mess of a weather.  And although we are not technically yet in the soup season, I can already smell the fall creeping in.  After all, the temperature drop from high nineties into mid eighties must be celebrated and interpreted as autumnal chill here in […]

This post have been submitted to YeastSpotting As you already know, about a month ago, I have entered a bread-making phase of my life. I now own more than enough books on bread making than I care to admit, and aside from some fascinating Sitchin’s books, those are now a part of my nightly reading. […]

I don’t like cooking in a hurry. Especially if I have to concentrate on making something new. This is why dishes like this one are perfect: you prepare them in advance, stick them in the fridge, until ready to cook.  Then you go about your day — work, exercise, take your kid to a soccer […]

Huh? Did I hear you asking for more bread photos? Sure, sure, here we go.  I have been going nuts in the bread department the last couple of weeks.  You know, in my world that means — my cookbook library just got larger by five (5!) books — all about bread making.  There’s gotta be […]

Everyone has seen the movie Ratatouille a few years back and applauded the gorgeous layered vegetable dish the little rodent protagonist concocted to sweep a picky food critic off his feet.  I am sure that some of you already know that the dish featured in the cute animated film was actually not a ratatouille, but […]

When it comes to doing chores in our household, we have an almost clean-cut separation between my husband’s duties and mine.  While mail sorting and taking the trash out is a gray area even now, after being together for twelve years, we had established from the very start that he doesn’t cook, and I don’t […]

Periodically I find myself taking stock of my pantry content and come to realization that my stocking abilities are quite lame. I find things in there you wouldn’t believe.  Surely, living (in my past life) close to one of the best places to shop for groceries — Dekalb Farmer’s Market in Atlanta — was to […]