The Rising Life

So here’s the thing that was getting to me this morning as I kneaded my challah dough. You know how you keep adding flour, and then as you knead, you’ll think the challah dough is perfect, but as you continue kneading you’ll keep exposing more stickiness, which will make you want to add more flour, which will keep you kneading, and then eventually exposing more stickiness . . . yeah. Like that. The crazy thing is, that no matter how long I’ve been baking challah, and how many doughs I have made – and it has been a long time, and a boat-load of dough – this thing still happens. It especially frustrates and confuses the challah newbies, as I have experienced in the hundreds of challah workshop

Reflecting on last week. It was a pretty interesting week . . . as weeks go. I started testing recipes for my Challah book (Rising!) This was really exciting, as it feels like a huge step towards getting the book out. And simultaneously – I got a new offer from another publisher – so now I am in the somewhat enviable position (don’t hate me!) of being able to choose who should publish my book! Help!! I can’t wait to share it all with you – I am so connected with the material in this book, it feels like a (magically non-nauseous) pregnancy. I guess the birth will be the day the book is actually published. I’m just hoping it’s not a long (difficult) labor!! No epidural on this one, people.