The weather this year (not to mention my blog posts) seemed to just just skip summer. I got away to some blazing Oregon days, swam in a some rivers and helped out a bit with a new baby in the family. But Fall seemed to just shove its way in and it felt like no [...]
Over the past few months I’ve changed my relationship with these sourdough beasties I’ve befriended to leaven and flavor my baked goods. I’ve both expanded the amount and variety of goods that I can make with them and I’ve let the little things be warm and active for longer periods. That is to say by [...]
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Our food in 2010 seems to be following a color pattern…
In Nourishing Traditions, there is one instance that Sally Fallon gives a thumbs up to the increased globalization (and industrialization) of food and that is to the availability of a wide variety of fruits and vegetables year round, which insures that people will eat enough [...]
This fall has been a hectic one but included the very fun task of making food for my friend who just had a first baby. Nursing moms (as well as pregnant ladies) are so fun to cook for because they eat a lions share, seem to especially enjoy eating, and really put that food to [...]
Friday, September 11, 2009
We were on foot for four weeks. We never stayed in one place longer than an overnight. Staying around would have meant less time on foot and more time in a hitched ride or bus as we only had the four weeks to get from San Francisco to Portland. The 27 nights went by like [...]
After 12 hours my Zarathustra Bread was done. It is actually very delicious with a really satisfying toothy and chewy texture with an occasional crunchy berry and surprisingly moist. It has a bit of sourness to it, and is more more like a hearty oat bar (or a Scottish oat cake) than bread exactly. I [...]
The name of this bread tells of how ancient it is. Wheat berries (pre-ground wheat) soaked for 2 to 3 days, ground up with salt and dried underneath a hot sun.
I ground mine in a food processor and baked them in a warmed oven (150 degrees)
The appeal to this bread I guess is its basic-ness. [...]
Sunday, September 14, 2008
We have been tending our tomato plants with great anticipation lately as they are laden with green fruit. I think one of the dogs got through one patch and broke of a particularly loaded branch. To not see this potential go to waste I thought to finally try fried green tomatoes.
I sliced them up, dipped [...]
My experience with so called “no-knead bread”, the article I got the recipe from, and your subsequent experience baking this bread is like an endless mirrors in mirrors of people wanting to make perfect “artisan bread” and then, yes, doing it in their own kitchen. It’s like some kind of carnival promise really coming true.
The [...]
Friday, February 29, 2008
Homemade bread is just so economical, it seemed crucial that we start baking more often in our need to cut the food budget. As usual in my internet searches for good recipes, I didn’t find anything I really liked. (This is usually because they aren’t using natural or organic products so I feel like their [...]
