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New Bread

It’s time for a new bread, a new way of doing things.  I’ve long resisted switching to folding dough instead of kneading because…why exactly?  Maybe I thought kneading was a necessary primal step in creating bread, something to do with

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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

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Irish Soda Bread Time

What time is it?  IRISH SODA BREAD TIME!  How easy is it to make?  SO EASY!  Is it delicious?  YES!  I can’t hear you!  YEEEESSSSSSSSSSS!! Okay, that was too loud.  Calmly and quietly proceed to the Irish soda bread recipe

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Making Beer, Part Two

Once you’ve made beer, what do you do with the grains?  If you run your own CAFO (concentrated animal feeding operation) you can use tanker trucks to deliver thousands of tons of spent grain mash to your metropolis of pigs

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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

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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

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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

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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. 

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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

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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

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