Sometimes, the ingredients come together just right, and even a simple dish is delicious enough to make your taste buds ache. That happened around dinner time tonight as I prepared a hearty summer salad-type dish that only works when you have vine-ripe tomatoes on hand: Tomato, Corn & Bean Summer Salad 2 ears fresh sweet… Read more »
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What It Takes (To make bagels)–Part 2 (30 Days of Creativity, Day 25)
Picking back up from the bagel project begun last night: here are the bagels rising in the fridge. They got about 8 solid hours of rise, which is perfect and leaves them ready to float while boiling. You can see tiny gas bubbles under the surface of some of them: While the coffee is brewing,… Read more »
What It Takes (To Make Bagels) | 30 Days of Creativity, Day 24
While I did spend a good chunk of the day installing and messing around with Drupal—in preparation for some literacy classroom software I’ve planned to build over the summer—that project is nowhere near ready to share. So it’s back to bagels! Equipment The Breadmaster, Peter Reinhart, is keen on mise en place. That is, having… Read more »
On the Porch, In the Mountains, With the Cobbler (30 Days of Creativity: Day 21)
So what’s more summer than dinner on the porch? Cobbler, for dessert, of course. This was a team effort, but I believe my first time with this particular pastry. Recipe here on Epicurious. Fruit layer, baked 10 min: Biscuit topping: Cobbler complete (with barn):
Hi, I'm Andrew Plemmons Pratt. I am the Program Manager for New Classrooms in Washington, DC. (Though opinions expressed on this site are entirely my own.) I taught 7th-grade English in Prince George’s County, Maryland as a member of the 2010 Teach For America corps. I write about literacy & edtech here—along with stuff like industrial archeology and bread baking.