I can confirm that the Hasselbeck-potato-gratin hype is real: it's the best potato dish I've ever made. I was too busy eating to take pics. #foodsky www.seriouseats.com/hasselback-p...

This apple pie awaits us. I followed Claire Saffitz's serious recipe in @bonappetit.bsky.social. But at my wife's request, I made the top crust out of leaves. www.bonappetit.com/recipe/best-... #foodsky

As usual, I spent all day cooking. But not as usual, everything worked out! Including my first attempt at these sourdough dinner rolls,using the recipe from The Perfect Loaf. #breadsky

Nuts.com has caught shrinkflation. In a shipment I received yesterday, organic Medjool dates and organic dried cranberries were in 13-oz bags instead of one-pound bags. The cranberries cost $0.79 per oz instead of the $0.72 per oz I paid in August. I'm not complaining, just observing! #foodsky

Chocolate-pumpkin marble cake looking good so far. @bonappetit.bsky.social recipe: www.bonappetit.com/recipe/choco... #foodsky

For the heck of it, Graham crackers, using BraveTart's recipe. #foodsky

Sesame seed rolls, using Charlie Anderson's recipe, as usual. www.charlieandersoncooking.com/recipes/arti.... Italian sub to follow once they've cooled. #breadsky

Apple cake with caramel glaze, how it started (before the glaze) and where things stand now. Here's the recipe:https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/caramel-apple-snacking-cake-recipe

For the first time, I saw a chunk of guanciale (cured pork jowl) in a store. Heck, even finding it diced in a plastic package is rare enough. So of course I bought it. I see spaghetti carbonara in our future. Mad props to Iavarone Bros. for stocking it, as well as capicola (aka gabagool). #foodsky

Some days what's required is lots of pasta, cheeses, and bechamel sauce topped with breadcrumbs, accompanied by a token vegetable. Today was one of those days. #foodsky

My first-ever chicken francese, using Not Another Cooking Show's recipe. www.notanothercookingshow.tv/post/chicken.... Shoulda added more sauce! #foodsky

Chicken liver with onions: my first time ever eating, and first time ever making, a liver dish. I used the first Youtube video I encountered (although it features beef liver): youtu.be/_SgpjsPZ32Q?.... I ate it without a problem! #foodsky

I just used the phrase "Gallic shrug" in one in a series of new writings that are meant to be more accessible. Oops. At some point accessible crosses over into dreary. If everyone can effortlessly digest what you've written, it's gruel.

Is "chalk up to" (as in, "He chalked up his mistakes to his inexperience") too fuddy-duddy for an online world? (Mind you, "fuddy-duddy" might be too fuddy-duddy for an online world.)

This would be an extremely bad idea. It will not satisfy them. It will acknowledge that they are right about something. It will empower them. Literally nothing that anyone should do, should be oriented towards placating this administration.

Cherry biscuit cobbler #foodsky www.bonappetit.com/recipe/cherr...

My sourdough, my hummus (Zahav recipe), grilled vegetables, sweet onion. All that's missing is arugula. #breadsky

I didn't know that the rabbi was the mayor! And I like that he uses the royal "we" to refer to himself. 🙂 (Dangling participle)

I've heard that people like videos. www.adamsdrafting.com/on-demand-dr...

As a token post for no good reason, here's tonight's Italian sub, featuring one of my sesame seeds rolls, using Charlie Anderson's recipe. #breadsky

Google's AI shit is shit, exhibit 24,874,528:

What's wrong with this Italian sub? Well, the moment I put this batch of rolls in the oven, I realized I had forgotten the sesame seeds! And I went to a deli that was convenient but not the best, so no gabagool! But otherwise, it should be good. #breadsky

Today, as a gesture of thanks to those helping with our renovations, I made pizza, for the first time in months, using my Ooni Koda 16. It worked out out fine, but I'm still looking for more crunch. What do you do, friends, to get crunch? (I used Tony Gemignani's master dough with biga.) #pizzanerd

Drove my wife to Connecticut today, so I went to New Haven, to try Modern Apizza for the first time. The crust of my pizza was, at the edge, light and flimsy. Elsewhere, it was drowned in puddles of melted mozzarella and exhibited a terminal case of flopitis. Not my type of pizza. #pizzanerd

Any flying-squirrel experts out there? I'm wondering how they managed to trash in three months the swell crib I installed for them.

Behold this year's tsoureki (Greek Easter bread).

Same dough, one boule, one batard, but since I'm not keen on foppish French terminology, let's try "ball" and "bastard" 😀 #breadsky

Still looking for contracts peeps in these parts. Here's my blog post about that old chestnut, the notion that it's risky to deviate from "tested" contract language. www.adamsdrafting.com/for-the-nth-...

It's nice to meet old Twitter follows after a long gap, particularly those inclined to share my contracts stuff in a place where I'm just a baking guy!

Today's cranberry and walnut sourdough loaves. They're great, but I've scaled down my sourdough habit: after months of twice-a-day feeding, the starter is in the fridge. And of these loaves, one will go in the freezer or to friends: there's a limit to how much bread the two of us can eat! #breadsky

When it's 19F outdoors, it's time to get creative with pizza-making garb. #pizzanerd

Hey @wordloaf.bsky.social, do you have nutritional information for your granola?

See this cute critter? It's a flying squirrel. Because we've destroyed their habitat, they're moving into suburban homes, ours being one of them. We've had a colony of them wreaking havoc. One showed up in a drawer in a bathroom, I kid you not. 1/2

Last night's shrimp and grits, using a Serious Eats recipe. There's a lot going on: My homemade pressure-cooker chicken stock. Gruyère in the grits. Mushrooms. Bacon. Finished with butter and lemon juice. Delicious, but an occasional treat. #foodsky

I managed to combine pizza and contracts in a blog post? What artistry! 🙂 #pizzanerd adamscontracts.legalsifter.com/blog/switchi...

Driving from Long Island to Boston. Halfway point? Pepeeee's New Haven! #pizzanerd

So sad to hear the latest news about the Doctor.

The production line for homemade graham crackers, using BraveTart's recipe.

What best accompanies pizza when you have guests? Usually I've done a salad of Boston lettuce, Belgian endive, and radicchio, but that seems insubstantial. Any suggestions? #pizzanerd

Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public. He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit. Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.

Enzo insisting on a belly rub, as usual. #dogs

Here's this year's Greek vasilopita ("St Basil's bread"), eaten on New Year's Day. It's basically challah with mahlepi (the ground pit of a kind of cherry), mastica (pine resin), and grated orange rind. I used challah braiding, then spoiled it by adding the year on top in ropes of dough. #breadsky

What's for lunch? Detroit-style pizza, using Peter Reinhart's "bacon and eggs" recipe from Perfect Pan Pizza and, for the dough, Charlie Anderson's recipe. #pizzanerd

The Garden of Eden and ... contract drafting? www.adamsdrafting.com/eating-the-f...

Another contribution to our hosts' Christmas dinner: devil's food cake with cream cheese frosting, using BraveTart's recipe. #foodsky

We're joining friends for Christmas dinner. This is part of what we're contributing. One advantage of this arrangement is that I won't be able to cram them entirely down my own gullet. #breadsky

Drafter thinks, "Hmm, 'gross negligence' isn't fucked up enough, let's add 'culpable' to the mix."

Yes, another two hoagie rolls, using Charlie Anderson's recipe. That can only mean Italian subs. Ohhhhh! Bring on the Gabagool! #breadsky

Over the past week, work has interfered with any sort of cooking and food shopping. The drought was broken by Detroit-style pizza with pepperoni and hot cherry peppers. Praise be! #pizzanerd

This is me atoning for casualties I've inflicted on the cute flying squirrels that have sought shelter in our attic: a posh multi-level flying-squirrel nesting box, newly installed on the tree in our front yard.