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…
Finally, Pastry
Posted in Baking Tagged with: artery, baking, bread, butter, croissants, food, laminated dough, uncle f-up
Lemonade for Sale
Entrepreneurship: it’s the spirit of America and a word you need to sound out as you write it to be sure it’s spelled right. And even then it doesn’t sound right. What does it mean in our household? It means…
Posted in Parenting Tagged with: CH, entrepreneurship, lemonade stand, limeade, parenting, price, profit
Life’s Little Defeats
It’s not the catastrophic failures that wear you down–those you mark as unique and unrepeatable. No, it’s the breaking of a bridge by the stamping of ten thousand small feet. At the end of the day when you’ve rejected your…
Let Your Beer Grow Up
A little age isn’t a bad thing. Take a look at the smoked wheat after it had some extra time in the fridge to settle: And it’s not just the color that improved. The flavors really matured, blended, and mellowed.…
Posted in Brewing Tagged with: ale, beer, bottling, brewing, grains, home brewing, mash, racking cane, stout
Hi-YAH!
Child Harbat is now officially a Tang Soo Do white belt. What’s Tang Soo Do? Click here for a whole lot of information and back story about it but here’s one teaser: the founder of Tang Soo Do walked from…
Posted in Parenting Tagged with: child harbat, kicks, korea, martial arts, parenting, punches, tang soo do
Justice!
Remember my post a while back about barking dogs in our neighborhood? We have one nearby in particular that barks at everything that passes by in the street, from a roving pack of street thugs to a blowing leaf or…
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with: backyard chickens, barking, chickens, cujo, dogs, hens, laying eggs
Lemongrass Wheat Beer
New beer is on the way! Last weekend I made a batch of wheat ale and decided to go off-recipe and try my own thing. Yes, this is the part of the story where Uncle F#*k-Up makes an appearance. But…
Posted in Brewing Tagged with: beer, cardamom, child harbat, coriander, home brewing, lemongrass, mash, toca boca, wheat ale
Buying Art
I’ve never thought about buying art in the same way I’ve never worried about the price of gold or considered real estate in St. Bart’s–it’s a rich man’s hobby. I thought that to buy art you had to be nursing…
Two Fine Buildings
We were talking about Sonoma last week but let’s move south a few miles to that hilly peninsula between the white-capped Pacific and the chilly shark-infested waters of San Francisco Bay. Yes, the city with famous bridges and famous cable…
Posted in Travel Tagged with: academy of sciences, architecture, art, assless chaps, city, deyoung, san francisco, travel
Oh Gee, Where’ve I been?
G is for go go go. Sometimes you have to step away from your surroundings to know where you are. How can we stretch out this metaphor? Climb a tree to see the forest? Take off your glasses to see?…
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