Sourdough Ciabatta

Not gonna lie to you — this is hard to work with. Have a mixer. Have some bench scrapers. Have some flour. Have some patience. But delicious and well worth the pain and suffering. Tools Kneading and Shaping I like this plastic bowl-scraper / bench-knife for doing my stretches...

Orange Bars

We’ve got a couple of orange trees that about every other year yield a metric shit-ton of oranges. This is one such year....

Neapolitan Cookies

Inspired by 100 Cookies but tweaked quite a bit. I wouldn’t play with the strawberry content too much as the freeze-dried strawberries really pack a punch even at just 9 grams. But the color isn’t very strawberry-ish, so I really recommend adding a couple of drops of food coloring....

Potato, Tomato, Corn, and Basil Salad

Really been trying to come up with a better name for this. Potatomcornsil Salad doesn’t really roll off the tongue. Comment below for a better name suggestion. My lovely wife found this recipe somewhere when trying to figure out what to do with some leftover basil we had, modified...

About Ingredients

Not to brag, but I’m told by many that my bread is “so freakin’ good.” Or my cookies. Or rolls. Or pretzels. Or whatever. Like there’s some kind of magic ingredient or spell I cast over the dough. And I really can’t take credit. Okay, my sourdough starter has...