A touch of Claire- baking, cooking& life

As a phD student who is "with all her heart" devoted to science and conquering cancer- lol just kidding... by which I mean life is kinda boring and simplified- I figure that I really need to have some serious hobbies! Baking of course pops up first and it has been more or less my weekly routine. But recently I got to think that I should more or less expand a little bit. Let's say,  after I baked this bread (baking), I spent time taking pictures of it (photography), I posted it on my blog (blogging), and I need to work out to burn out the calories the bread brought me (jogging and rock climbing). See, now I have quite a few hobbies lol.     Part of the above is joking, but I've never really doing something consistently for long, so I really hope I'm going to putting new stuffs in my blog. And I met so many cool friends while climbing, and I never expected I would be enjoying it so much!  As I've been baking artisan bread for a while, I'm consisten

I can't believe that I've put this post in the draft box forever! I finally fulfilled my dream of baking an artisan bread for my mom, when she was in New York. She stayed only briefly for a weekend here, but that was quite enough for me to show her my life. I tried to show off all 'the best' of my beloved New York to her, the good restaurants, museums, stores.... People tend to say that NY is more of a tourists' city, but I do enjoy living here, especially when I'm still young to get excited. The bread is a just a old favorite recipes- lots of rye flour, flaxseeds and soughdough with all the natural, 'wild yeast', it can't taste bad! (My mom was actually quite scared about the long time soughdough bread takes to make. I'm just so convinced that the wait is so worthwhile to render the best flavor. )   I do hope my pictures are looking better than before, because I GOT A NEW CAMERA! I just love it so much!! It's actually quite a p