Let the baking begin! It's January!
After sitting in my chair playing phone games, watching movies, and sleeping in during the Christmas vacation, my brain was not ready to come up with new bakes for the month. So yeah, I used AI prompts to come up with some ideas for baking this year. I know some of you may be annoyed or incredulous by this, but I took half a dozen classes on using AI to my advantage and why not have fun with it? Some of the ideas were laughable like dulce de leche fortune cookies, and some of them actually seemed like a cool idea. For this week I took all the suggestions and added the shortbread cookie with orange, which in China is good luck for their new year. More on that later... BREAD: The bread was meant to be a "fiber forward" loaf filled with seeds and organic honey.That sounded a lot like the multigrain seeded bread I made in culinary school, so I just got my sourdough starters fired up and made that. I didn't have much trouble finding the organic honey, and I'm not sure i...