Rustic is a generous word
Three days of feeding a starter I was convinced I had already killed, and somehow a loaf came out of my oven this afternoon. Not a beautiful loaf. Not the kind of loaf you see on…
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When your client schools you in your own kitchen
Michelle shows up for our Sunday session carrying a grocery bag that definitely wasn't workout gear. "We're making tamales today," she announces, already unpacking masa and corn h…
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Three hours and a cloud of flour later
Decided this morning I was going to make pasta. Not buy pasta - make pasta. From actual scratch, with just flour and eggs and whatever magic turns those two things into something…
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Stars, stripes, and family secrets
Turns out mixing Abuela Rosa's enchilada recipe with Fourth of July planning creates the kind of chaos that ends with everyone in my kitchen arguing about whether cilantro belongs…
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Learning curve
Apparently there's a reason Italian grandmothers make this look effortless. I've been at this for two hours and my kitchen looks like a flour bomb went off. Learning curve The dou…
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Flour power
Decided today was the day I'd finally try making pasta from scratch. How hard could it be, right? Famous last words. Flour power Three hours later and I look like I wrestled with…
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Glue stick archaeology
Carmen showed up with a grocery bag full of construction paper and announced we were doing Valentine's cards "the right way this year." Apparently buying them at CVS doesn't count…
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Flour everywhere
Jake found a pasta recipe on some cooking blog and announced we were making dinner "the Italian way" tonight. Never mind that neither of us has ever made fresh pasta before, or th…
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Long distance love
Sarah's mom sent a care package yesterday - twelve frozen tamales wrapped in enough aluminum foil to build a small spacecraft. We've been talking about missing home cooking since…
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Sunday gravy success
Jake's been talking about his grandmother's Sunday gravy for months. Every time we'd have pasta, he'd get this wistful look and say "Nonna's was different though." Finally asked h…
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Kitchen disasters
Michelle showed up this afternoon with a bag of flour and grand plans to teach me how to make fresh pasta from scratch. "How hard can it be?" she said. Famous last words. Kitchen…
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Flour power
Alex knocked on our door this afternoon with a bag of groceries and big plans. "We're making fettuccine from scratch," he announced, like this was something normal people just dec…
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Anti-Valentine's becomes pro-friendship
Started the day planning to ignore Valentine's Day completely, but Sarah had other ideas. She texted this morning asking if we wanted to do a 'Singles and Couples Solidarity Potlu…
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