eating is the hard part

When B & O asked me to volunteer some of my time for a cookie baking fundraiser, I jumped at the chance to sign up for every day I could. Baking…cookies..good people, how could I not sign up. I also thought it would be provide me with a great opportunity to haul my camera along and film the adventure. And this is exactly what I did. So here you have it, my first attempt to shoot, edit, and document the 4 day process. Thanks to everyone who volunteered their time and beer, for well, being beer.

*Just a quick update. B mentioned on Facebook that we raised over $2,800! What an awesome result.

After playing with a ton of savory additions to my wild yeast tartine these last few months, everything from pumpkin seeds to sun-dried tomatoes, cheese to jalapeno’s, I decided to try something sweeter. In this case figs. Not something you find fresh on an everyday basis (don’t we wish!), I have taken two cracks at this fruit in the last week; first with dried figs and then with fresh. Read more…