This page (set up just so I could see how Blogger works) is a portal
to our adventures in food and drink, recipes, disasters, triumphs...

(Note that this Blogger site uses cookies from Google to deliver its services and analyze traffic.
Your IP address and user-agent are shared with Google along with performance and security metrics to ensure quality of service, generate usage statistics, and to detect and address abuse.
See this page on how Google uses the information for clarification.)

Please use the links below or go directly to the real blog from OUR kitchen



` ` `


31 July 2017

July 2017 posts


Monday, 31 July 2017
Mostly-Wordless Not-Wednesday: were we supposed to burp it?
summary: We fed our new pet this morning and left it unattended in the dining room; feeding the Jane Mason natural starter; it’s warm in the house; good thing we got home when we did; cleaning up was relatively painless; an Almost-Wordless Wednesday post;

Saturday, 29 July 2017
Oh boy! Another new toy!
summary: giving in to fashion trends; we have a new toy: a dough whisk;

Tuesday, 25 July 2017
Isn't the 3rd Try supposed to be the Charm?
summary: Third try at making Wild Bread, based on a recipe in "All You Knead is Bread" by Jane Mason; training a new pet; search for not-sour Sourdough continues; hiding the evidence in the composter;

Sunday, 23 July 2017
ISO not-sour Sourdough: We're getting closer...
summary: First try at making Wild Bread, based on a recipe in "All You Knead is Bread" by Jane Mason; training a new pet; problems with over-rising and developing the gluten;

Wednesday, 19 July 2017
And we have a new pet...
summary: recipe for Natural Starter based on instruction in "All You Knead is Bread" by Jane Mason; I'm a glutton for punishment; we have a new pet; problems with over-rising and developing the gluten;

Sunday, 16 July 2017
It's summer and we're full of beans! (BBB July 2017)
summary: recipe for Velvety Bean Bread; reducing the yeast; summer and over-rising; hazards of scoring overproofed bread; a Bread Baking Babes project;

Tuesday, 4 July 2017
feed the hungry Aish Baladi (bookmarked)
summary: recipe for Aish Baladi (100% whole wheat flatbread); using Michael Pollan’s method of sifting the wholewheat flour; toasting the bran; bookmarked; Toronto celebrates Canada Day with a duck; we're not paying attention; hunger;


Orange Appeal: Savory and Sweet

by Jamie Schler with photos by Ilva Beretta,
(Gibbs Smith Publishing)