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One thing I have been longing to master for quite a while now is to make a working Sour Dough Starter that I can use to make my own bread with.  We are experiencing a shortage of yeast at the moment (and flour and sugar for that matter) so creating something like a sour dough starter is a skill we can all use.  I had tried once before with NO success.  I thought I would try again and I watched quite a few videos on You Tube and finally felt secure enough that I thought I could master it. (Fingers...

150g salted butter, at room temperature ½ teaspoons flaky or grainy sea salt (Sel de Guérande or Maldon or similar) 5 egg yolk 200g sugar 100g almond powder 150g all-purpose flour 2 tsp baking powder 1 egg 1 teaspoon of water In the bowl of a stand mixer, with the paddle attached, cream the butter with the sea salt for a minute or two. In a separate bowl, whisk the egg yolk with the sugar until fluffy, then add to the creamed butter.Mix the flour, almond powder and baking powder in a bowl and add to the egg mix. Stir...

We recently moved back to New York City, which means we're back to apartment living and small kitchen living. The move-in process is always pretty stressful, but one of the things that made it much easier for me was coming up with a plan for organizing different areas of the house. I actually worked with my friends from Horderly to organize three spaces in our house: the kitchen, my prop closet, and our entryway closet. To me, the biggest job is always the kitchen and that's what we're going to focus on today! 12 Small Kitchen Organization Ideas Since we...

As a dad, I’ve put in plenty of time at my kids’ hockey games. Without fail, after every game, both my sons love to indulge in the rink food court’s pretzels. They are not good, so we came up with our own recipe. To the uninitiated, making pretzels seems complicated, but it’s actually a pretty an easy way to learn the basics of bread-making. With a simple dough that comes together in minutes, the rest of the process is similar to making homemade bagels: shape, submerge, bake, snack. In the case of super soft pretzels, rather than boiling them, they...

As a dad, I’ve put in plenty of time at my kids’ hockey games. Without fail, after every game, both my sons love to indulge in the rink food court’s pretzels. They are not good, so we came up with our own recipe. To the uninitiated, making pretzels seems complicated, but it’s actually a pretty an easy way to learn the basics of bread-making. With a simple dough that comes together in minutes, the rest of the process is similar to making homemade bagels: shape, submerge, bake, snack. In the case of super soft pretzels, rather than boiling them, they...