Monday Mix 12/18/23
Rolled and filled
Happy Mondays, everyone. This is the last Monday Mix of 2023, since Wordloaf will be going on hiatus after this Friday until mid-January.
Lucky me got to spend most of yesterday hanging out with my friends
and John Welch, who were in town to teach a ravioli workshop, demonstrating Meryl’s amazing recipes and John’s amazing wooden ravioli molds. After the class, we followed Meryl to Curio Spice, where she had a chat with April Dodd of Milk Street Kitchen all about her new book, Pasta Every Day, which was just included as one of the New York Times’ best cookbooks of 2023. I’m going to talk a little more about Pasta Every Day this Wednesday, when I’ll share a list of new books I love that I have had the time to feature yet here, in case they are not on your radar for holiday gift giving. And I got Meryl to sign a copy of her book for a giveaway drawing when the book will get a proper share here early next year.I spent the rest of the weekend making more starter whisks (all of which will ship out later today if you placed an order recently), and finishing up my sourdough rye recipe.
I don’t know yet what I’ll be baking for the holidays this year, but it will likely include some of these rye cookies and whatever breads I happen to be working on for the book (I am all Breaducation and no play these days).
What’s everyone else planning to bake in the coming weeks?
—Andrew
I have reached the end of Cookie Box Making Extravaganza 2023 but find myself unable to stop, so I have ma’amoul, gingerbread, and oatmeal scotchies on the horizon with perhaps some chocolate cherry thrown in the mix. Also excited to make a pesto-filled challah wreath for a gift!
Thank you so much for joining us yesterday and for supporting Pasta Every Day, Andrew! It was so great to finally meet in person. Looking forward to cooking together someday soon(ish)!!