Here’s one key observation I’ve made after months of fiddling with my new brick oven: these things get really, really hot inside. So hot in fact that a cheerful round of bread dough can be transformed into lump of smoking, blistered ash in as little as eight minutes. But what else to do but risk […]
READ ON…in my brain, caused the accidental deletion of a slew of unopened emails. So, if you sent me an email over the last ten days or so and didn’t get a reply, please resend.
READ ONWe’ll be closing up shop at Joe Pastry world headquarters for the next week or so. Back on Monday the 14th, tan, rested and ready. Happy 4th to all!
READ ONI’ve had a weakness for English muffins all my life. The pity is, I’ve bought almost all of them from the grocery store. To think, all the while I could have been making a far superior — and far cheaper — English muffins myself! They’re not the slightest bit difficult to make…about like pancakes. The […]
READ ONThe wife seems to be generating as much mail as I am with her muffin post. Here’s a good one from reader and mother Jo-Lee: Bravo Mrs. Pastry! With regards to the blog entry you wrote about kids and eating. My children (5 and 1) sound exactly the same as yours. I have thought about, […]
READ ONThe English muffin has the distinction of being the only savory bread we modern Americans eat that’s cooked on a griddle. As I mentioned in a previous post, “griddling” is a style of bread cookery that’s long been out of style in the Old World. Yet once upon a time British cuisine was chock-a-block with […]
READ ONToday’s New York Times food section includes a profile of Jeff Varasano, a former New Yorker whose obsession with reproducing real New York-style pizza has made him the number one authority on New York and/or Neapolitan pizza on the internet. If you’ve never been to his web site, it’s worth a trip. It’s got everything […]
READ ONI’ve spent several days on American muffins, but while I’m on the subject, why not whip up a batch of the American muffin’s English-style cousin? Click here: www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,1977,FOOD_9936_23595,00.html.
READ ONPick… …eat… …repeat. At least little Joan did until she all but blew up into a purple ball like Violet Beauregarde in Willy Wonka. You mean these things grow on trees? Nice to see that the local fruit orchards are managing to make a comeback after last year’s disastrous frosts. The patch where we usually […]
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