Gourd-eous Gluten (aka it's fall!)
My time at home feels steady and unchanging when I return from trip. And that's exactly what I need. I need the consistency of normal and boring. I crave it after the startling change of a new city, especially when theres a new language or challenge involved.
Romania was lovely. The small city of Timisoara was a mix of old and new, ancient and modern, free and communist. The hotel and food was exactly what I expected for a small city in eastern Europe. The time there was a slow pace and I loved that my colleagues there were very intentional about taking a lunch break and coffee (espresso!) break. We could learn from that.
This week, I leave for Germany and Portugal. I'm so very excited to leave the airport in Germany. See the sights for a few days and then head south to Portugal to eat everything, especially the egg tarts - once featured in a technical challenge on the Great British Bake Off.
Last week I made the first batch of squash bread, gorud gluten? Butternut squash white bread is so, so, so good and great way to start off fall baking. As I've said before, something about the extra moisture the cooked vegetable or that I usually add it to a white bread recipe; which is almost always chewier and toast better.
I've been buying fun and fancy things to make bread with but, as I'm not writing about it that means I've not made it. Soon! (Are you tired of that broken record?) In the meantime enjoy this long list of articles I've been reading in airports, strange offices and to kill time in all the in-between times.
The BreadList - a collection of things I've been reading, making and watching to recently.
I love spy movies and I'm very excited to see how this Jason Bourne spinoff turns out.
Social media dependence can lead to unrealistic expectations and, of course, disagreements.
"Because, if you say, Look, actually, spending a lot of money is a diminishing return, it’s an effortful bore, it doesn’t deliver the rush—well, where does that leave the ever expanding universe of capitalism and consumption?" Only the fathomlessly rich suffer from Perfection Anxiety.
When it comes to skincare and makeup - should you care what celebrities have to say?
Can confirm, Americans smile a lot.
Inside a professional baker's kitchen.
I'm also reading actual books - Little Fires Everywhere, Evvie Drake Starts Over and Ayoade on Top (at last, a definitive book about perhaps the best cabin crew dramedy ever filmed: View From the Top).
