TUSCANY’S PORK FAT BITS COUNTRY BREAD

[ezcol_1half] WHILE MY BRAIN WAS ANTICIPATING TYPICAL BREAD, CAME THESE POPS OF DEEPLY SAVORY AND UNMISTAKABLY CARNIVOROUS STIMULANTS. [/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end] Working mothers, I don't know how you do it. Those of you who follow our Instagram will know that recently, two toddlers have joined this family.  Not just some harmlessly drooling, homo sapien nuggets that crawl inside your neatly confined perimeters sucking on a bottle.  But two wall-eating

THE BLUSHING BOULE (PURPLE YAM COUNTRY BREAD)

[ezcol_1half] HOW DARE I BARGING IN WITH MY "ORIENTAL" VEGETABLE, LIKE A BRUTE IMBECILE WAVING A BOX OF STUPID CRAYONS, JUST SO I CAN PAINT AN ALREADY-PERFECT LOAF OF ART, PURPLE? [/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end] So lately, if you have been paying attention, you'd notice that I've been somewhat, disturbingly obsessed with this color here.  Hey, I swear, I didn't know I had it in me either.  I mean, com'n, pastel purple?  What am I, Hanna Montana?  But seriously, starting exactly 7 days ago, I swear it came at me like a never-ending nightmare too dazing and beautiful to wake up from, I kept and kept baking things - FOUR loafs of bread as we speak to be exact - obsessively colored in this gigglish hue which I was never that into even when I was 4.  What's happened to me? To trace back steps, I must say that it started out innocently enough, as it happens to all of us, by an epidemical mental illness called PGSD - Piggish Grocery Shopping Disorder.  I have been haunted by this persistent disease, which I have no doubt that I've gotten from my mother, for much longer than this ever-expanding body of mine can endure.  On my weekly shopping routine, online as

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