• Baking Recipes,  Bread-making,  Experiments & experiences,  From the books,  Yeasted breads

    Le Croissant Challenge

    Things have been positively toxic at work. I didn’t have any time at all to write and fix my process photos for this post on top of everything else. I’ve been wanting to write about my first experience with croissant-making for a long while, and between my first try and this writing, I’ve been able to repeat this recipe at least once more already. Never did I expect that I would be able to create such lovely and delicious croissants! This particular recipe is taken from Sarabeth Levine’s book Sarabeth’s Bakery: From My Hands to Yours, which I talked about at length in this post because I was so impressed…

  • Cookbook Crazy,  Experiments & experiences,  From the books

    {Cookbook Crazy} Sarabeth’s Bakery: From My Hand To Yours

    Seeing as cookbooks play such a large and important part in my life as a cooking and, most especially, as a baking enthusiast, I don’t know how it never occurred to me to write about them here until now. I do not buy cookbooks as often as perhaps I do regular fiction books, but every time I add a carefully selected new cookbook to my collection, it is truly a feeling like no other as far as buying books is concerned. Even just thinking about buying a new cookbook gets me so excited! Oh, be still my heart. My cousin gave me a bookstore gift card for my birthday back…