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Flour Water Salt Yeast by Ken Forkish and My Bread Journey

by Athena // July 22, 2020 // No Comments
This post includes a review of one of my favourite cookbooks and my own personal sourdough journey. Continue reading →

Wild Fermentation by Sandor Katz

by Athena // August 31, 2019 // No Comments
I have been due to read a Sandor Katz book for awhile now. I am glad I was able to get the revised edition of this book. Fermentation has become a hobby of mine for the last few years. I’ve... Continue reading →

Marcus at Home by Marcus Wareing

by Athena // August 29, 2019 // No Comments
Marcus Wareing is a Michelin starred London based chef. He is widely known on UK TV for judging “Masterchef: The Professionals”. I’ve been a fan of Wareing since watching him judge “Great British Menu”. Masterchef: The Pros is one of... Continue reading →

2018 in Review and 2019 Goals

by Athena // December 30, 2018 // 2 Comments
Books and Reading My goal for 2018 was to read 32 books. 2017 was not a good reading year, but 2018 was much better. As of this writing, I read 45 books! The following are books that I dumped: Georgette... Continue reading →

Dirt Candy by Amanda Cohen

by Athena // May 11, 2018 // No Comments
This is a graphic novel and cookbook in one. It’s about Cohen’s life as a chef and vegetable focused restaurant owner. Along side recipes and discussions on how to cook vegetables well, there is a lot of on how the... Continue reading →

No Knead Sourdough Diary Vol. 2

by Athena // May 4, 2016 // No Comments
With this entry, I have gone off the one sourdough recipe I have been making and found others. Basically, I am doing the turn and fold method with the long bulk fermentation for all my breads now. It is mostly... Continue reading →

The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook by Deb Perelman

by Athena // April 27, 2016 // 4 Comments
The Smitten Kitchen food blog is my favourite food blog and has been for many years so when Ms Perelman announced that she was going to release a book, I knew I would eventually buy it. Most of my cookbooks... Continue reading →

No-Knead Sourdough Bread Diary Vol. 1

by Athena // March 28, 2016 // No Comments
In 2012, I created my own sourdough starter from scratch. It used organic flours (rye, kamut, whole wheat, spelt) and distilled water. I kept the sourdough alive and tried to make sourdough bread half a dozen times. However, it was... Continue reading →

No-Knead Bread Diary Vol. 3

by Athena // March 22, 2016 // No Comments
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Make the Bread: Buy the Butter by Jennifer Reese – Cookbook Review and Sauerkraut

by Athena // March 9, 2016 // No Comments
This a follow up review to one I made when I first read this book in 2014. However, I had not made anything from this book. I still find it useful even though the costs and availability do not apply... Continue reading →

How to Bake by Paul Hollywood

by Athena // February 22, 2016 // No Comments
This is the first of three Paul Hollywood books I will review. As someone who loves baking, most of my cookbooks are focused on baking from the sweet to savoury to bread. This book covers that. It is the British... Continue reading →

The Fast Diet by Michael Mosley and Mimi Spencer

by Athena // February 18, 2016 // 2 Comments
Like many others, I became more interested in Intermittent Fasting (IF) after watching Dr Mosley’s BBC Horizon programme on it. I began to realize that this would be the only diet that I could ever do. It’s more of an... Continue reading →

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