Amit returned from training for his new job in San Diego.

Katja is moving to Eugene, OR to work as a nurse on L&D at Sacred Heart Riverbend.

Mere and Liz are changing rooms.

I’m off to Port Townsend for the boat.

So it was time to have a potluck, and did we ever.


…unfortunately I didn’t take any photos of the spread. I have no idea why I didn’t think of it. I made two large deep-dish pizzas. and all that was left was a single, sampled slice.

Dough (sourdough batter, flour, water, butter, salt)
Cheese (whole milk mozzarella)
Ingredients (bell peppers, broccoli, onions, shitake mushrooms)
Sauce (Tomatoes, baked beets, salt, thyme)
Because we’ve been keeping the house very cold (just above freezing when necessary), the starter has really been slowed, so during proofing, it didn’t grow much. The end result made for some really dense crispy crust, not the bready, fornicary-yeast flavor and texture you might expect of say a pan pizza or foccacia. I have really enjoyed playing with using less yeast than we are used to–being okay with less leavened bread.

Betsy made an excellent lentil & quinoa dish that was really fresh. I want to get that recipe. There were cookies, brownies, pasta and enough good beer that I don’t remember the other dishes… Hopefully the my next post will include lots of pretty pictures from Port Townsend, or PT as they say.

Hey Wayword,

I came across a definition that, as far as I can tell, needs a word. I have recently delved into baking more, and I feel my breads & cakes need more semantic distinction than just lumping them in to the rest of my culinary pursuits. So I began a wordhunt.

However, my scouring of the dictionary and thesaurus for something of or having to do with baking have yielded no lingual arc. Could this be?

1. Patisserie has perhaps a correct root, being related to pasta or dough, but conceptually/colloquially refers a pastry shop. That’s too niche. Plus, the suffix if changed to -ary, would be too aurally confusing for my taste.

2. Culinary’s root implies the kitchen, which could work, but already has an associated definition that makes it feels too inclusive.

So I went to a Latin dictionary for a new root word, and this is where I’d love your input. My Latin is in no shape to judge, so I wonder, which of these two roots do you think would be better for my vocabulary expansion.

clibanus: an oven or furnace/tray for baking bread.
fornacalis : relating to an oven
fornacula : a small oven
fornax : fornacis : oven, furnace, kiln

I like that cliban- refers to baking bread
I prefer the look and sound of forna- but don’t like the inclination to anglosize the spelling, also it could be assumed to mean that it has to do with fornication.

clibanary, fornacary, furnacary: of or having to do with ovens baking.

“Definition, seeking a Single, Latin, Root—for long hours of kneading, and the fire to really heat things up.

Asa Nathannael Hunt