Our Daily Bread: My Easy Everyday Bread Recipe

The Recipe: My bread recipe, the one I've made again and again for exactly one year. It's an easy bread to make often, to fit into small spaces of your cooking life. The Conversation: How I accidentally came to make European-style bread every few days for the past year. It's a special day here today, March 31st. First, DarkEarly this morning, we were visited by a pair of wild mallards, their bright orange feet announcing their northward migration back to Canada for the summer. Mama was sooo hungry, pecking at the ground below the bird feeders, Papa kept watch. Every so often, she'd lead the way across the pool cover for a drink, then back to the feeders for another course. They're gone now. Safe travels, visitors! But more than that, today is my mother's birthday. Were she still alive, her birthday cake's 87 candles would light up a room! And today it's been one year and two days since my now 91-year old father came to live with