Simple fruit fly trap

I hope my fly trap isn’t too disgusting, but it’s so cold out, it’s so not worth getting a picture of the ice. I’ve tried some of the other designs, the cone over a jar, the holes in plastic, but this takeout cup is simplest and most effective trap I’ve tried.

Re: My Bread

Although I’ve decided that I like a bit more structure in my breads, I enjoyed Jim Lahey’s My Bread. Remember, this is not my bread, but Jim Lahey’s bread. And it’s his book.

Messy fougasse

Considering all the misshapen bread I’ve produced, there’s no way I could go wrong with fougasse. You deliberately misshape the dough when you roll it out. And then you inadvertantly misshape the dough trying to get them onto the paddle when they stick to the board. But look at them. How could you go wrong?

Phooey

Don’t wanna write. Don’t wanna write. Don’t wanna write.

Green shoots

Check it out: when the rain gets rid of the snow, it turns out green stuff was growing under there all along. I’m not entirely sure whether this is an iris or a daylily, but there’s several of them up on the hill. Who cares, they’re green! And there’s dirt! Now that’s what I call […]

Re: Emergency

Even after listening to the reading of “Emergency,” by Denis Johnson a couple times, I’m not sure what I think of it.

Breadspawn

Did the bread have babies?

Coy orchid

The sun is moving. Suddenly, it’s no longer pitch dark at four in the afternoon. There’s a big melt storming in tonight. And the orchid is two.

Re: The Shameless Carnivore

Some people get obsessed with bread. Some people get obsessed with meat. Scott Gold is the latter, which led to him writing The Shameless Carnivore.

Tada! Challah!

Huzzah! I finally made a good challah!