Public Service Announcement: Forming Bread Loaves

Just in case someone happens by....The other day, I was chatting with my son and he mentioned that he had made kimchee. i asked him where he got the recipe and he said "From ye olde Frugalscholar blog." How I miss blogging. Or rather, how I miss the way blogging used to feel.

One reason I left my blog up, mouldering though it may be, is that there's a lot of good stuff there. Just today, I looked for a recipe. It was locked on the NYT--even though I have a subscription. But there it was on my blog! Sausage and bread soup from Mark Bittman! And there were comments from my old blog buddies!

Then I remembered that my son posted a video of my dear husband, baker of more than 40 years, forming bread loaves. I'm sure there are others. But here it is, a blast from the past: https://vimeo.com/4859712.

Sadly, I can't figure out how to put the video here. Oh well...ELEVEN YEARS AGO.

Thank you to my Grandmother for my Wedding Gift

A few summers ago, I remarked upon the enameled cast iron pots that were at the cottage (now sold, a daily source of pain that enters even my dreams). My mother is a committed non-cook and, indeed, they had never been used.

"Oh, Grandma bought them as your wedding gift, but she died before you got married."

I took them home, and now Emma is taking them to her new home in New Orleans. Her name, following religious tradition, even though my family was decidedly NOT observant, is the same as my grandmother's: Emma.

Thanks to my grandmother for a wonderful wedding gift (acknowledged more than 20 years after the event) and for giving my daughter such a beautiful name.