• Baking Recipes,  Yeasted breads

    Have some Salted Chocolate Babka in January, because why not?

    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…

  • Baking Recipes,  Christmas & holidays,  Lemon Obsession,  The Breakfast Bin,  Yeasted breads

    So I bought a pack of marzipan, Part 2

    I have mentioned plenty of times before how much I love making bread. There’s just something therapeutic and exciting about it at the same time. Baking is wondrous in how it turns something colourless and shapeless into a piece of edible art, and I think this magic is more evident in yeast breads. It starts out as a sticky piece of dough that somehow has a life of its own thanks to the yeast. You wait patiently as it rises and grows and puffs up, and once you shape it and put it into the oven it bakes into perfect little breads with beautiful crumbs. It sometimes pays to sit back and just appreciate the transformation from dough to bread.…