A New DIY

Homemade mayo is silly easy. I’ll post a recipe once I finish tweaking. (The dark color is from smoked paprika.)

Our daily bread

Tired of fiddling with dough, to make two loaf pans and then free-form loaves with the rest of the dough, boules are the order of the day. Half bread flour, half fresh ground (hard red winter) wheat. I’ll post the recipe to Chow Review, it’s a new family favorite from the peerless first edition of [...]

Spoon Butter

This butter is amazing. I’ve also seen it named spoon oil, but the texture is spot on for perfectly softened butter. To make it, you’ll need a saucepan, a jar or tin can, and small containers if you plan to portion it out. Also, beeswax and mineral oil, in a ratio of 1:4 by weight. [...]

2011 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 7,800 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 7 trips to carry that many people. Click here to [...]