It was bound to happen: making bread and drinking beer leads to making beer. They aren’t that different, bread and beer. One’s liquid and both are delicious. My wife got me a beer-making kit from Brooklyn Brew Shop. The flavor:…
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Making Beer, Part One
Posted in Baking, Products Tagged with: beer, brewing, CH, home brewing, mash, wheat, wheat beer, wort
Why Yes, That is a “Huevo”
Five points for the first reader who can place that quote. Now then, where was I? Yes, we were talking about chickens some days ago and how we’d yet to see an egg. This weekend we got one, precious as…
Slice of the Holidays
If you’ve ever made bread you can certainly manage this holiday bread recipe. If you haven’t made bread before, this bread comes with a long family tradition of baking failures, from doughy, uncooked interiors and burned crusts to unanticipated rising…
Stout Bread
Living in Southern California I’ve had to give up on the idea of autumn as I experienced it back East: the echo of birds racing through a quickly denuding forest, the shush of crackly leaves up to your ankles, the…
Posted in Baking Tagged with: autumn, baking, beer, bread, fall, food, grains, stout bread, whole wheat
Back to the Things That Matter
Periodically you have to shut off the glowing screens, break out from your patterns of eating, sleeping, working, cleaning, and remember the things that matter. For the last few days we’ve been lucky to have family from Portugal in town. …
Beside the River
Stop Three: a place a spent my childhood summers sailing on a winding river verged with thick greenery like stands of broccoli florets. A place where colonials malcontents dumped British tea into the river just as Bostonians had. A place…
The Best Damn Cereal Ever
I like to think of myself as a breakfast cereal aficionado. Sure, I’ve had my youthful indiscretions with Honeycomb and Froot Loops, I’ve trudged through the lean times with generic Cheerios, and I’ve thrown money at tasty but fleeting boxes…
Posted in Baking Tagged with: baking, breakfast, cereal, dried fruit, food, froot loops, gojii berries, granola, honeycomb, lembas bread, museli, oats, raisins, vanilla
Easter Braid
Sometimes Uncle F%#k-Up does something right. For Easter I was tasked with making a pretty bread. Since I am King Pretty I thought this would be a snap. Then my wife gave me a Martha Stewart recipe that showed…
Oh Yeah, Pizza!
It seems like a silly thing to forget, pizza. People are constantly talking about it, folks on TV are eating it, people who work at pizza shops are asked to make complex drawings on pizza boxes. It’s everywhere! So how…
Keep it Simple, Stupid
There’s this saying, “If it tastes good on its own, it’ll taste good on a pizza”. I haven’t had an ice cream pizza yet, or a Cheerios pizza, but I have my doubts. If you reduce pizza to its basic…
