I am naturally a little bit restless. When I talk on the phone, I pace throughout my apartment as if I’m a cartographer trying to figure out what every inch of the place holds. At the office, I get up frequently to get water, or tea, or a snack. I do this at home too, now that I’m working full-time from home (which I am very fortunate to be able to do: my brother got laid off two weeks ago, and I know this has happened to many of my friends, too). I had the week before last off (a previously planned staycation that was a bit more confined than I’d originally expected), and I got into a rhythm of spending a lot of my time cooking or baking. I made two loaves of bread, I made breakfast and lunch and dinner, I thought a lot about the perfect cheese sauce for tater tots. Then a friend of mine* made cherry tomato confit, a recipe from Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, and I was like, okay, this seems like another fantastic use of my time!
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As promised or hinted at, a summary of the baking I did this summer. There’s one more cake, but I’m writing up a separate post for it.
This summer I got really into pies, and it shows. Is summer a weird season to be into pies? Traditional pie dough needs to be kept cold at all times and summer temperatures in New York are not especially conducive to that. I had the AC on all season, and when I’d take out a blind-baked crust I would often set it to cool over the grates of my temperature control box (the name is escaping me; it does heat, AC, and a fan) in hopes that would make things go faster.
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