Monday Mix 7/17/23

Unstrained

a loaf of my Za’atar Ba’abka that popped up in a photo search this morning

Happy Mondays, everyone. Just have time for a quickie this morning. I’m currently doing some testing for my upcoming Kneading Conference workshop, where I’ll be holding a focus group for my bread book and sharing a couple of recipes-in-progress. And I am working on Wednesday’s post, on a recent bread book by someone else.

I’m also making a batch of yogurt with some Uppingil Farm raw milk a friend brought me the other day. My yogurt recipe is dialed-in now after all the intel I got from Homa Dashtiki, the culture I “stole” from a container of her amazing White Moustache yogurt, and a trick I learned from another friend that gives me Greek yogurt-thick yogurt without straining it at all. (Or labneh, with minimal straining.) If you’d like me to share my process here, let me know and I will.

Also, this is a good moment to remind everyone that I’ll be taking my usual August break from posting here (after next Wednesday’s post), for some much-needed beachy R&R. Posting will resume on Friday, 9/1, though I might send out the occasional missive or recipe in August, just for fun. (I also hope to have new recipes for the Breaducation testing panel starting around the same time.)

—Andrew