Barbara Samuel O'Neal is the author of more than thirty award-winning novels, including THE LOST RECIPE FOR HAPPINESS and

The Secret of Everything
The Secret of Everything

A native of Colorado, Barbara loves teaching, travel, reading, writing, yoga, walking, food, cooking, photography and...okay, reality television.

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A beautiful loaf

Jack had to have a bit of surgery this week (he’s fine, he’s fine!) and when I got home from finding out, I didn’t even take off my sweater. I gravitated to the kitchen and started pulling out flour. This is the result, a wheaty loaf, using a small amount of buckwheat in a poolish starter.

January 22nd, 2010 | Tags: , , , | Category: Animals, Food and Drink, Foodie Fridays | 3 comments

Orienteering, baking up a new book and Aha Moment

I’ve been baking up a new book that I superstitiously can’t talk about yet, but having a blast and think you will love it madly, too.   Haven’t had much time to blog properly, though I’ll have a little more time this week. 

Saturday, I went to an orienteering event but bombed out badly on the orange [...]

August 24th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: A Writer Afoot | 5 comments

The heady alchemy of baking bread

It’s a cold winter afternoon, the kind when winter blisters past the windows, turning everything blue.  Inside, I am kneading bread.  Not in a bread machine but with my own palms and wrists.  The dough is whole wheat, heavy and thick, and it takes muscle to punch it down, to knead and fold and press, [...]

May 21st, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Category: Food and Drink | 9 comments