the peaceful peacock

For the record, there are two types of yeast. One is tra­di­tional yeast, which you use the sponge method for. That’s what we’ll be going over here. The other kind is instant yeast. This is also known as rapid rise or bread machine yeast. Basi­cally, you just toss it in with every­thing else and there is […]

Mak­ing an impec­ca­ble loaf of  home­made bread–by means of skill rather than accident–has been on my list of life­time goals for a very, very long time.  (I can say decades now, though I don’t want to say decades because it makes me feel much older than 34.)  I  began my trek into this noblest of […]

Lately I’ve been aim­lessly wan­der­ing around the world of the third trimester, try­ing to nav­i­gate where I’m headed and deter­mine what self-imposed  expec­ta­tions are going to be met within these next few pre­cious weeks.  Look­ing for­ward, reach­ing toward the ever­stretch­ing fin­ish line, try­ing to run when it’s get­ting tough to even walk these days. Time to slooooooowww […]

So I’ve been attempt­ing to run on a lit­tle sched­ule here, though I’m afraid I’m not doing a very good job of it this month. Thurs­days have been pegged for tuto­ri­als by the way. After the hard core dis­play of tuto­r­ial writ­ing that I demon­strated with the dia­per sewing instruc­tions a few days ago I’ve […]

I knew that div­ing into the world of gluten free bak­ing would be a chal­lenge. I knew this, I swear. Let me tell you what I have learned for sure this week: there are A LOT of crappy gluten free recipes out there. Holy moley. Our com­post bin is quickly fill­ing with these hor­ri­ble, horrible […]

Since we have a wee one under the age of one year and a his­tory of aller­gies in the fam­ily, my goal is to fig­ure out a way to to trans­late our favorite recipes into gluten free dishes that don’t suck. Obsta­cle One of the Gluten Free Chal­lenge: cre­ate gluten free foods that the boy is […]