Entries from January 2009

January 30, 2009

An Outstanding Cookbook

The sleeper hit of Christmas has to be the book I gave Mrs. F called Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day by Jeff Hertzberg and Zoe Francois.  In short this book is amazing.  We have always dabbled in baking but this book is head and shoulders above any bread book we have in both ease and sheer [...]

January 29, 2009

Fred’s Not Dead

Sorry readers for the month hiatus.   Two factors at play here.  First, and foremost I have been swamped at work.  Don’t construe this as a complaint- given the current state of the economy I am extremely grateful for this.  Secondly I hurt my foot running.  Nothing major, but I am on an NSAID, so wine consumption [...]