I’ve been feeling kind of weird these past few days, and I’m going to chalk it all up to yet another bad case of wanderlust. Getting back from my year-end trip always puts me in this funk. I want to get up and go on another adventure! But being the realist that I am, I do know that without work, I don’t have the capacity to play at all. And well, there’s no other option but to let this mood pass I suppose. Life is not an extravagant fairytale. I don’t believe in being excessive in life, but this loaf of bread is kind of cutting it close. In the…
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Easier Chocolate Babkas to make in a pinch
Ever since I heard about Chocolate Babkas, they immediately wrote themselves into my to-bake list. I had no idea what a Babka was except that it involved chocolate. Surely anything with chocolate would be fantastic right? Later on I learn that it is actually a loaf of yeast bread with chocolate inside! The reason why I am not all that familiar with babkas is because, other than the fact that I’m fairly new to the foodie world, we don’t really have much of a designated food item for the Lenten Season. I guess you can call my efforts at making these Easter pastries an attempt to start some sort of…