Blog - Alchemy Bread

Hope many of you had a pleasant holiday weekend celebrating Mother’s day. We spent the weekend doing most of the usual things, farmer’s market, plenty of fruits, and my middle child presiding over the pasta dough and pasta machine to crank out fettuccine for a table of 7, (5 sons and 2 moms) with intermittent help from all the young ones, pasta ...

Today has been gray and intermittently drizzly, I decided to loiter in bed reading as long as I possibly could. As each chapter ended I thought, “okay, time to get up”. Then my eyes slowly drifted to the next page, and I just kept reading. Finally my 14 year old son woke up and said he wanted to make buckwheat waffles and pour-over coffee togeth...

I’m writing to you between the nexus of 50 loaves of just baked bread, an espresso in a tea cup, a rain cloud’s steady drizzle, and tangerine peels on the table, the couch, and the kitchen counter. It’s a wonderful place to be. The fanaticism for minneola tangerines is currently at it’s peak in our household. My youngest lamenting that he can’t ...