If you’re trying to restore your starter from a backup, or someone gave you some of their dried starter, here’s the steps to restore it and make it your own. First of all, weigh it. You need to know how much dried starter you’ve got. For the sake of...

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...

I was at the Farmers’ market this morning and a seller had tomatillos. And cilantro. I had to go to a different vendor to get the Serrano peppers and garlic but it was a whole 20 feet away. Pictures soon....

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...