It's been a while. 

I have been reading but not really baking.  Perhaps blogging is not for me, however, I will attempt to renew my initial vigor and post a couple of times a week.

After all, a job and a child can't keep one occupied all of the time.

Bread is wonderful.  I have a great and simple bread recipe that I got from a class with a master baker.  While many might say that I paid too much for two recipes and some advice I think that the time spent and the ability to ask questions about techniques and how things should feel was well worth the price.  FYI: for those who would love to take a baking class in San Francisco go to www.bakingarts.net and check out the classes. Richard is an amazing teacher.

I recently saw one of his recipes on  Facebook.  It's pretty basic, and I am not posting it in its entirety because it was passed on to me in his class and that would be rude.  But, it's just flour, yeast, salt, and water.  I recently made a batch and upped the amount of salt.  Amazing....just that bit of extra salt.

Nice.

I hope to move into making soft pretzels this fall AND it's almost gingerbread house time again.  I really enjoy the gingerbread houses.

Til next time.

I am working on coming back to blogging.  Who cares?  Well, me, so that's what works for me.

I am inspired by my fantasy about the cinnamon bun that I will be eating at Sherman's later today.  I am in Palm Springs, CA at a conference.  It wouldn't be a trip to Palm Springs without a meal at Sherman's.

Maybe I'll post pictures later. Hopefully my fantasty will be fulfilled.

I bake a lot still.  Now I bake for everyone as well as my family.  I like it.  I like getting it out of the house.  I will eat an entire pan of brownies given enough time and tea.  No, really.  It's not that hard.  I could eat all of the batter as well.

The nice thing about baking is that when you don't know what to do you can bake.  And no one ever says, "why are you doing that?!"  I guess it seems evident as to why one would want a sweet tasty treat.

It was my pleasure to bring even a small smile to a friend's face the other day.  Hard times come around.  What can you do?  Well, I can bake.

What do you do?