Rising to the Occasion: Lessons in Baking

Ever wonder what makes bread rise?  (I mean, other than the obvious answer: yeast.)   But HOW exactly does yeast—or perhaps another leavening agent—cause bread to rise, you ask?  I’ll tell you.

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house project: foundation

We finally broke ground! In the ‘overview’ post about our house project, I said our contractors had hoped to begin digging the new foundation right after the holidays. Well, January’s weather didn’t quite cooperate, so the front looked like this for three weeks straight:

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