so, here i am... look at me... trying to blog...
something to write about.... check
something to take pictures with.... check
time to blog?.... just about, check-ish?
so i'll be in hawaii for a month, the plan is to post my daily rants on here as well as some pics of the food i make. also, if i can get my shit together, you may see pics and videos of me prepping for the trip.
i had a master plan to bring my knives, a small bag of dried levain (sourdough starter) and maybe some cookbooks to hawaii. i thought to bring a small vessel of live levain as well, to see if it would make the trip. a friend of mine who is a competitive baker (okay, its tracey muzzolini, of christie's mayfair bakery, artisan baker for the canadian baking team - shameless plug)... anyway, a friend of mine said it's fine, that they have tests to make sure that its not: a) drugs or b) explosive and that, simply, i just have to explain what it is.
i have decided to forgo the idea of bringing mysterious white powder onto a plane entering us airspace as well as bringing sour smelling-gooey-slurry stuff in my carry-on, its probably a ridiculous idea. also knives in the luggage? uh, no. seemed like a great idea last week... today? not so much.
so begins the prep for the trip. menu testing, recipe tweaking and one-loaf-at-a-time bread baking.
wish me luck.
and the pics seen here are courtesy of 1take photography's jeremy marucot. i've known this feller since he was like 6? and now he's all grown and laughs loudly exactly like his dad and takes phenomenal photos. jer helped me get the hawaii gig and i love him to bits and want to squish his face.
