Spring is a time to lighten up and enjoy the beauty around us, and my Spring Wildgrain Subscription Box helped me do just that! Wildgrain Subscription Boxes provide delicious, nutritious artisanal breads, pastas and pastries to make your workload a little lighter, while helping you enjoy easy, great meals with the people you love. A …
Recently, I heard about an artisan baked goods company called Wildgrain, the first bake-from-frozen delivery service for sourdough breads, artisan pastries, and fresh pasta, who offers a Wildgrain Subscription Box. The idea sounded intriguing, but my standards for artisan breads and fresh pastas are high, since I have been known to make them myself (Semonlina …
What Is Panzanella? For those of you inclined to ask, “What the heck is Panzanella?”, let me tell you: panzanella is a traditional Italian bread salad recipe, and the best use of fresh summer tomatoes that I know! Panzanella is one of my most favorite summertime dishes, something that I consider to be one of …
Foccacia with Caramelized Onions is the perfect dish to choose, when soup is on your menu, but you need a little sumpin’-sumpin’ that will stretch that lonely bowl of soup into being more of a meal. It’s also perfect to serve with a salad, if it’s too hot where you live for soup, and you’re …
Last weekend, I attended the 5th Annual Southern Artisan Cheese Festival, in Nashville, TN. The Cheese Festival was hosted this year at Rocketown, in downtown Nashville, on 4th Avenue South. It was my first year to attend this delicious event, organized by Kathleen Cotter, of The Bloomy Rind, a cheesemonger whose store has locations at Porter Road Butcher, at …
This is the fourth and last post in a series of posts I’ve written on how to make homemade sourdough bread, in which I will share with you the sourdough bread recipe that I’ve found that works the best for me. Part 1: In Part 1 of the series, I shared with you some deflating …
In this post, I’ll teach you how to refresh, and maintain your sourdough starter. I’ll be sharing with you what I’ve learned since I started baking sourdough bread. Slicing into a beautiful loaf of bread you’ve created yourself is really rewarding! My 4 Part Sourdough Bread Tutorial In my first post, I gave you an …
This is my second post in a series of posts on how to make sourdough bread. In my first post, I gave you an overview of the process, with a few perhaps somewhat deflating truths: what to expect in general, and some things I think you should be prepared to deal with if you want to give this …
First: The Deflating Truth (and yes, that’s a bread dough pun) At the risk of running those of you off, who are seeking to learn how to make sourdough bread, I’m going to tell you a hard, perhaps deflating truth: making truly excellent sourdough bread at home is not for the faint of heart. Nor …
Sesame semolina artisan bread is definitely the favorite bread of my childhood, and is possibly still my favorite loaf of bread. I’ve been making various different types of artisan bread, off and on for several years. I started by grinding my own whole wheat grain, to make loaves of Homemade Whole Wheat sandwich bread for …