There are places you don’t ever want to go, and times you don’t want to leave the comfort and relative security of your living room. Yet last night at 9 PM I was down in my crawlspace facing a sump…
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Beer Successes, Beer Failures
When you’re a homebrewer, sometimes the product is greater than the sum of its parts and sometimes it’s a mess you pour down the drain. Three weeks ago I bottle my Harvest Ale, a lovely dark amber spiced ale made…
Finally, Pastry
I’ve put this off for far too long, I mumbled to myself eyeing the boxes of frozen butter. Eleventy-one hundred loaves of bread is plenty to make without having once tried the really-not-all-that-difficult laminated dough. To horribly mix my LOTR…
Posted in Baking Tagged with: artery, baking, bread, butter, croissants, food, laminated dough, uncle f-up
Ciabatta Sandwich Bread
I don’t know why I haven’t thought of this earlier: no-knead undead ciabatta dough poured into a loaf pan to make strong and holey sandwich bread. This weekend I was feeling lazy and uninspired to make the same wheat sandwich…
Chai: Solved
The great chai mystery has been cracked. My previous attempts at making strong chai in the office, here and here, were foiled by physics (shakes fist at universe) and operator error (shakes fist at self). As is so often the…
Chai Update 2
Chalk one up for the marvel of the market system. Five minutes after my last post I’d found a mug that looked like it would fit the bill. One hour later I walked to a Starbucks two blocks from my…
Suspiciously Easy
As long-time readers will know, my title of Uncle F$#k-Up comes from a storied history of home improvement, maintenance, and kitchen catastrophes which start out with a simple problem and end with a larger problem. Multiple trips to the store,…
Productivity
Every so often you get a burst of energy, a huge wave that lifts you up and propels you forward. When it happens, you gotta ride it all the way into the beach. Saturday morning I decided to do some…
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New Year, New Beginnings
Hello everyone and welcome to the first post of the second decade of the third millennium. Sounds more dramatic that way, no? My Christmas break was an equal mix of sickness, snow, family time, relaxation, baking, eating, and sitting by…
Dishes, Washing Of
I tire of washing dishes by hand. Funny, when you say it you sound like a 19th century matron who shakes her lace hanky at manual labor. I washed my own dishes for four years in my own apartment, then…
