Making a Backup of your Starter
Shit happens. You don’t mean to kill your starter, but shit happens. So be prepared. Drying Out Your Starter I’m sure there are lots of ways to do this but my method is to take a bit of parchment paper and a pastry brush, brush a little starter on...
Hypocrisy
Recently our local Raley’s grocery store became a “O-N-E” store — Organics, Nutrition, and Education. Okay. The first change we noticed was that a lot of common things we bought were gone. No more did they have Gallo Salami or the cheap-ass hot-dogs we buy to hide the dog’s...
Dog Biscuits 1
I recently bought some dog-themed (bones, paws, etc.) cookie cutters to make my own dog biscuits....
Roti
I decided to try making roti — Indian flat bread — over the weekend and discovered you should just go to a good store and buy it pre-made. That is all....
Buying A Mixer
A fair number of people have told me they’d love to bake more but they don’t have a stand mixer and can’t afford one. First of all, a mixer is a convenience. Okay, if you want to make something very wet like ciabatta or brioche, I’d say it’s a...