Loafed

While waiting on a technician to  fix my ovens keyboard pad, I've been reduced to using my  mini toaster oven in the mean time. Not too many successes, but being deprived a loaf a day is a drag. And when finally  the technician did show and...

Small Oven Baking

I miss my Cuisinart bread oven!  Outfitted with stone tiles, and cranking up to 500, it was my path to decent loaves and efficient delivery during my fledgling days as micro baker. Fast forward to today, when building problems means no source...

New Oven

Imagine, an entire week and no chance to bake!  A lesser bread-geek might be devastated. Me, I kept my weeping to a minimum by added doses of cursing the blowhards known as America's Republican presidential candidates. That and gnawed on rusks...

Pizza with Domenico

Last weekend I joined my pizza-master friend Domenico at Harlem's Serafina, the goal to watch him make true Neopolitan pizza. The restaurant has a great oven, but for whatever reason it's designed less for Neapolitan pizza  for their...