Archive for the ‘Grains’ Category
Thursday, October 8th, 2009
How better to flood the system with pure warmth, energy and fortification than an Irish breakfast? What you see above is black pudding and champ.
Black pudding is a simple blood sausage found throughout most of the UK. I made a batch last week from pork blood, steel-cut oats, onions herbs ...
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Saturday, September 13th, 2008
These were a rather spontaneous latenight snack. I have laying around a blend of wheat, rye, corn and oats that I made bread from last winter. I decided to add an egg to it. Before I knew it, I'd rolled and cut fat strips of pastry for the rosemary peppercorn ...
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
If there is one single, solitary deed that is more restorative and reassuring than any other, it is quite possibly the act of baking bread. If you build the oven and fire as well, all the better. Working grain and water with the hands is not only a response to ...
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
First, I got to work on the filling. I had Dungeness crab and bacon, and decided to bind them with potatoes and walnuts. Of course, merely mashing up two potatoes wasn't enough for me. No, I actually made a micro-batch of fresh shrimp stock from shells, carrot, onion, celery, parsley, ...
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