Archive for June, 2007

Sweet Rosemary-Orange Bread, or How I Stumbled and Mangled my Way to an Edible Loaf

How embarrassing.

The breadbakingday #01 challenge, as presented by Zorra, was to bake a bread with herbs. Yes, I thought, I can do this!

I have a beautiful couple of rosemary plants that have really taken off this year, but today I didn’t feel like doing my oft-made rosemary-olive sourdough. I had the brilliant idea that I would create something quite different from my usual fare, to present for my first blogging event.

rosemary-orange-bread-slice.jpgLet’s just say this was not my finest example of clear thinking. But my thought when I started this blog was to document the bloopers as well as the unqualified successes, and in the end this didn’t turn out too bad anyway.
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What It’s About

Let’s be clear up front: I really have no credentials, no business writing a blog, much less one that has anything to do with food. I’m not young, hip, witty, artistic, or visionary. I’m not a foodie, a chef, a writer, a critic, or a photographer. I can’t cook, although I sometimes try, but I don’t eat out much either. I’m still trying to wrap my brain around the concept of a “trackback.”

Yes, the sad truth is that I possess a solitary qualification: I bake a lot of bread. (Read more…)

  • Resolve that you will have good bread, and never cease striving after this result till you have effected it.
    --Marion Cabell Tyree, Housekeeping in Old Virginia

  • a few of my baking books

  • make a difference



    Kiva - loans that change lives



    The Hunger Project



    The ONE Campaign



  • music to bake by

    • Walk of Life
      Dire Straits
    • I'm In Love With You
      Steve Forbert
    • I Want You
      Bob Dylan
    • On the Radio
      Regina Spektor
    • I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)
      The Proclaimers
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    This work is © 2007 – 2011 by Wild Yeast. If you would like to use something you see here, please ask me.