Curated Lists of Cookbooks and Helpful Travel App

CURATED LISTS OF COOKBOOKS

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I am so excited to share this with you all. I set up an affiliate page on Bookshop.org and now you can buy books online but still give the majority of proceeds to your favorite local indie bookstore. How cool is that! I know there are a lot of cookbooks out there so I made a couple of lists to help you all find cookbooks on various topics. I have three lists so far.

1. Must Have Ukrainian Cookbooks

2. Must Have Eastern European, Central Asian, and Balkan Cookbooks

3. Must Have Sourdough Baking Books

If you are getting ready to do some holiday shopping this is a much better alternative.

FAVORITE TRAVEL APP:

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I am obsessed with Wanderlog. If you are going to be doing some traveling you might want to check it out. It’s an all in one app that lets you track everything to do with your trip. You can plan daily itineraries, make lists of things you want to do or places you want to eat, and it works with your google map so you can add places directly from google maps. There is also a budget section that lets you track your expenses and share those with anyone you might be traveling with.

This is not a sponsored post, I just really like having an app where everything is in one place and you can reference and add things as you go with ease.

If there are other tools you love to use while traveling or planning itineraries let me know in the comments I would love to try those out.

Eight Lessons from My Panettone Saga:

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8 Lessons from My Panettone Saga

I love enriched doughs—the more butter and egg yolks the better. You can see some of my creations on my Instagram page, where I have been documenting my panettone journey all along. I began baking sourdough in 2016, and as many sourdough baked goods as I possibly could from around the world. I was obsessed with perfecting my naturally leaved croissants, ensaïmada, babka, baba au rhum, brioche, kardemummabullar, bagels, simit, pizza and of course endless loaves of bread.

Four years into my sourdough baking journey, in 2020, I finally felt ready to accept the challenge of panettone, the Mount Everest of enriched doughs. When I did so, this bread became the sole focus of my baking attention. In the beginning, I was focused on research—I read everything and anything I could find on the topic, I translated books from Italian, and I interviewed panettone bakers. After months of being stuck in research mode, I finally began experimenting, and I spent almost every weekend practicing. As of today, I am two and a half years into my journey; I have learned so much along the way, and want to share some of my insights with anyone else who decides to  embark on their own panettone baking  journey.

First things first, you will make a lot of mistakes; many things will go wrong, honestly maybe even most things. When I began making panettone, I knew it was going to be hard, but no one ever told me outright just how hard it would be. Looking back, I wish someone had told me just how much I should expect to mess up, how much can and will go wrong. If you are planning on baking panettone this holiday season, you’ll want to start practicing as soon as possible. (And to give yourself some peace of mind, maybe go ahead and pre-order a backup loaf from one of these amazing panettone producers.)

Panettone taught me how to fail (A LOT), helping me build up my resilience muscles as a baker and human, and I’m sure it will do the same for you.

You can read the whole article here:

Eight Lessons from My Panettone Saga

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