As part of our world history tour, we just visited Ancient Egypt. The goal was to experiment with Egyptian flatbread, but what to serve with it? It turns out that the Ancient Egyptian diet mainly consisted of bread and beer, along with vegetables, legumes, and fruit when available. Meat appears to have been eaten sparingly, [...]

We are currently on a world history tour. The Viking bread was such a huge success that it led to questions like, what would Roman bread have been like? (Sean wants me to tell you that it was made out of Romans, but really we just used wheat.) What about Egyptian bread? (Flatbread, as it [...]

Our two apricot trees both produced a full crop again this year. We planted two based on the idea that apricots are alternate bearing—i.e., they bear a crop every other year. It turns out that our trees are not alternate bearing, so we get lots of fruit every summer. Moreover, the fruit all ripens at [...]

It’s apricot season here in Chile, and both our trees are bearing a full crop (more on that later). What this means in practical terms is that if a recipe doesn’t include apricots, I’m not fixing it. Out of desperation, and almost jokingly, I recently googled apricot + fish + recipe. This generated a few [...]

I love the idea of a quick cinnamon roll that can be thrown together in the morning and baked right away. Not even I want to wait an hour for a yeasted dough to rise that early in the morning. I have therefore tried several quick cinnamon roll recipes recently, including a so-called cinnamon roll [...]

Thanksgiving is just a week away! I’m sure I am not alone in wondering where the year went. The boys’ school lets out for the summer on December 14th, so we are busy with end-of-the-year exams and projects. Everyone is ready for long break. Despite the summer heat, we do celebrate Thanksgiving with an oven-roasted [...]

About a year ago, I started making all our bread at home. I had decided to try to eliminate most of the food preservatives from our diet, with the exception of processed meats (which we mainly use for sandwiches). Once I started reading food labels, I was surprised to discover how extensive the use of preservatives [...]