I thought I had my crouton issues solved.
I thought that my forays into the world of crouton-creating would never again be written about on this blog.
I thought that I was mature enough to get up from my video game when the alarm went off on the oven that signaled the completion of the crouton-cooking cycle.
I [...]
Last week, I realized I was out of chili powder. Being the kind of guy who restocks things I’m out of that I will need at a later date, I bought some more.
Two days ago, I thought I was out of chili powder and bought another container of the stuff, completely ignoring the fact that [...]
Nothing could be easier to make than croutons, right? They’re basically nothing more than toasted chunks of bread, right? All I have to do is follow the recipe, right? There is no way that even I could mess this up, right?
To the left, please observe my first attempt at making croutons. Both trays were prepared [...]
After my initial failure at baking a loaf of bread, I could have given up and returned to the world of store-bought bread. That is what a sane person might have done. Fortunately for this blog, my grasp on reality is tenuous at best and I gave this whole breadmaking thing another shot.
Loaf number two [...]
Because I am insane, I recently had the thought that it would be a good idea for me to attempt to bake my own loaf of bread from scratch. Never mind the fact that I’ve never worked with raw bread dough before, didn’t have the proper equipment and had no one to teach me about [...]