Category: Flour Head Bakery

  • Adama Foundation and the Lighthouse Peace Initiative

    Below is a note from Mahasti’s friend and fellow baker, Jeffrey Hamelman, about his experience working with the Adama Foundation in Uganda. It is a beautiful and powerful telling of his experience teaching Ugandans to bake bread. Dear Friends, I recently returned from Uganda, where I spent two weeks with another American baker, Sara Molinaro,…

  • Flour Head Bakery’s Appalachian Trail Mix Cookies

    You cook?  Then try this recipe, post a picture on social media and tag us! Also use our hash tag #FoodGottaCook and we’ll randomly pick a winner and send them a Tomato Head Gift Card! I have a sneaky feeling that the creation of gravy happened somewhere at the intersection of accident and eureka. In…

  • Hummus – Tradition and Invention

    Absolutes are dangerous. Of course, absolutes are also attractive, sometimes very attractive because they eliminate uncertainty and create a kind of level playing ground for the mind.  After all, life is so unpredictable, it’s only natural that we’re drawn to anything we perceive as steady, fixed and resolved.  But the truth is, the truth can…

  • Chocolate Chip Cookie Day!

    We don’t mean this as a bait and switch, per se.  It is not actually chocolate chip cookie day as the food calendar would have it, but, honestly, everyday there’s a warm cookie nearby is a de facto festival in my book.  Today, while we are, in fact, celebrating the chocolate chip cookie, we’re doing…

  • Gingerbread

    Cookies are magic. We know it instinctively.  It might be that some of us grew up believing that little elves who live in hollow trees make magic in the form of fudge stripes on shortbread and the like.  For me, the magic is in the memory of family kitchens filled, especially at this time of…

  • Flour Head Bakery’s Pumpkin Pie

    Yum Ingredients 2 cups Fresh or Canned Pumpkin Puree 1 cup Heavy Cream 1/2 cup Milk 2 Eggs 1 Egg Yolk 1/2 cup Sugar 2 TBL Butter, melted 1/2 tsp Salt 3/4 tsp Ground Cinnamon 1/2 tsp Ground Ginger 1/4 tsp Ground Nutmeg 1/8 tsp Ground Clove 1 tsp Vanilla One 9-inch-deep dish prepared pie…

  • Flour Head Bakery’s Zucchini Bread

    If you polled farmers about garden humor, I suspect that you’d find out that the poor, prolific zucchini is a popular subject for jokes.  That’s because, like rabbits, this summer squash greets life with a singular drive to be fruitful and multiply.  I have one gardener friend who tells tales about drive-by” squashings”; these midnight…

  • Cheese Straws

    I do not often think of myself as a Southerner.  It’s not prejudicial – I am fond of the South in many ways and often eat and cook like a Southerner ought to do.   I’ve grown okra, I can tie up a tomato, I know how to make a fair tea cake, I prefer my…

  • National Sugar Cookie Day

    If the sugar cookie could talk, I suspect it would express some bashful surprise at the fact that we honor, even celebrate, it.  The often pale and unadorned sweet might even blush to know that we toast its very existence today on National Sugar Cookie Day. The Sugar Cookie, at least as we most often…

  • Trifecta of Food Holidays

    3 is a magical number.  In Roman and Chinese systems, it’s one of the few numbers that’s written with as many strokes as the number represents.  It’s a significant number to Christians, Hindus, Pagans, and Pythagoras, too. In less consecrated  ways, those who fancy a flutter on the gee-gees on Derby Day or anytime Keeneland…