Lisa Sieverts

I’ve started making pizza again, using a Roman Pizza sourdough crust recipe that makes a half-sheet, perfect for 2 people for 2 dinners.

And this idea is brilliant:

uses another favorite technique of mine, which is to cold proof pizza and flatbread doughs in containers that are similar in shape and dimensions to the final bread (I use 13x9-inch cake pans in this case). That way the dough expands toward its final dimensions as it relaxes in the fridge, which means you don’t have to overwork it and press out all the lovely alveoli it contains.

From “A thrice-weekly, IACP-nominated breaducational newsletter from Andrew Janjigian <linktr.ee/wordloaf>”

Vaccines may not prevent many symptoms of long covid, study suggests

Currently reading: The Healing Power of Story by Annie Brewster 📚

Me and my buddy, Dave, on top of Mount Monadnock in New Hampshire, sometime last Fall

mountain #mbmay

Finished reading: The Secret of Santa Vittoria by Robert Crichton 📚A WWII novel that is part funny and part tragic. I realized my parents had named our childhood cat after the main character, Bombolino. Another insight into the awfulness of WWII.

Finished reading: The Correspondents by Judith Mackrell 📚I greatly enjoyed this non-fiction book about 6 female war correspondents who reported on WWII. It brought home to me the awfulness of that war. I was born in 1960, 15 years after WWII ended. But it was not spoken of.

Symmetry #mbmay

Thinking of buying an iPhone 13 Mini. Anyone have feedback, positive or negative?

This green is a welcome beverage for my thirsty-from-the-monochrome-winter eyes #mbmay

Long COVID is crashing the retirement hopes of many Americans - MarketWatch

I figured out how to put my iPad above my iMac, a la @Burk. I’m running Sidecar in this example, where I’m running Zoom on the iPad while I attend a webinar. This gives me my entire iMac free to do everything else I want to do.

Currently reading: The Story of a New Name (Neapolitan Novels Book 2) by Elena Ferrante 📚

Finished reading: My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante 📚I’m committed to the entire Neopolitan Quartet of books. Judging by this one, it’s going to be intense. She writes so well about being a girl growing up in the early 1960s in a very macho Italy.

Maroon #mbmay

Pot #mbmay

Bloom #mbmay

Currently reading: The Secret of Santa Vittoria by Robert Crichton 📚

The union of my two favorite Slavic salads: Herring/beet and chicken/potato/caper. #mbmay

Visitors! My 27-year-old step-son and 3 of his friends are here from The Netherlands! It’s so exciting to have houseguests and to be cooking for more than two people. Korean chicken last night. Pizza tonight, thanks to a friend with one of those Ooni things, or the other one.

Woke up at 4AM so went for a long, dawn walk. #earth #mbmay

Experimental #mbmay

Finished reading: Silverview by John Le Carré 📚another quick but rewarding read. Not the best Le Carre ever but lovely to read after mourning his death a year ago.

Finished reading: Bruno’s Challenge by Martin Walker 📚a tasty pleasure. Quick and easy short stories about a cooking policeman in rural France.

This #switch is open #mbmay

Quit reading: The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon 📚the main character is awful and I don’t want to read about her anymore. Too bad, because I loved the author’s prior novel.