Release day!

HOW TO BAKE A PERFECT LIFE

by Barbara O’Neal

Available TODAY in trade paperback from your local retailer, or these on-line venues

Also available as an ebook for Kindle, and Nook [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]