The best kind of food is simple and rustic. It comes from the garden to the table.
I’m often only interested in really rustic simple food. The way it looks, the way it taste, the way it just appears so fulfilling in every way. I do not like to look up things to make and it has 300 little steps to make it and only comes out the size of a tea saucer. I don’t like formal dinners, the dinners I love are when there aren’t enough seats for everyone, we serve family style everyone lines up makes their plates and you start to see theses little gatherings of people around the house sitting on quilts out in the yard or on the floor in the living room or even on the front steps of the house. Cousins will sit and visit, the little ones sitting next to mom so they can feed off her plate like baby birds, the monarchs of the family sitting at the kitchen table while they talk about the golden olden days. We all take turns serving plates and drinks for each other, feeding each others children, laughing, talking, visiting with each other. Having this style of gathering allows us to move around each other, to get up and join a different group and to talk and laugh with them. If you ever end up at a dinner in my house you will be greeted with simple rustic fresh fulfilling food, great conversation and a blanket of your choice. Mangiamo!
Making Bread…... QUICKLY
I know what you are saying, “NO WAY”, I’m here to say “YES WAY!”.
I have tried making bread many different ways, using many different recipes with many baking techniques. Most of them work, most of them are great and most of them taste wonderful, BUT…… lets face it all of them are not convenient. It doesn’t matter how low mantinace they say they are I find myself frustrated at the timing issue. The longer time it takes the harder it is for me to get it done at the proper time I need it done. I live with an Italian so bread is not optional it is fundamental.
Please don’t get me wrong, I do love the slow rise, 3 day long episodes of sourdough bread making but I don’t always have the time or patience for it. If I am being honest in most cases I will buy sourdough from a local bakery and opt in to make all the other breads I need with these little lovely books I have found. I truly am able to make fresh bread everyday I need it and not stress my self out. The recipes in these books are such a wide range you can find almost anything that will suit what you need. Nothing special needed and no fancy bread making education required.
