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This post is not to try to convince anyone to grind wheat and make flour and bake your own bread. This is most for those few of you who have the mill, have the wheat, have tried it and weren’t happy with the results but haven’t totally given up yet. It was in 2007 or...

No, not a quilt finish but a finish nonetheless. I believe that I started this one the summer before last but it's done, in a frame and ready for its close up! I had to laugh when I read Mary's Country Threads blog the other day and she referred to quilters who've taken up cross stitch as "jumping ship"! I haven't gone all in, as in totally overboard, but I do stitch to unwind in the

No, not a quilt finish but a finish nonetheless. I believe that I started this one the summer before last but it's done, in a frame and ready for its close up! I had to laugh when I read Mary's Country Threads blog the other day and she referred to quilters who've taken up cross stitch as "jumping ship"! I haven't gone all in, as in totally overboard, but I do stitch to unwind in the

Yesterday I made two loaves (really, they’re boules but I just call them loaves) of sourdough. I’m impressed with my new starter. I had heard on a youtube that adding a few tablespoons of rye to the starter really makes it crazy active but Chad said he read that using rye can introduce harmful organisms....

A couple of weeks ago Chad and Nicole were here and Nicole asked for some of my sourdough starter. For the first time in years and years, I didn’t have a sourdough starter. I didn’t have any in the fridge, didn’t have any dried in the freezer . . I had none. I told her...

This morning I was grinding wheat to make bread and I’ve been showing Vince the process. I turn the “basket” all the way to where I hear the stones grinding against each other and then back off just a little so as not to damage the stones but still get the finest flour I can...

After making the Ezekiel bread the other day, I wanted to try it again using two of the longer Pullman pans instead of three cast iron shorter loaf pans. We’ve been cutting on the back loaf. Chad, Nicole and Addie were coming by today so I gave them one loaf. This bread is not sandwich...

There have been several questions about the mill I recommend. First, please know that I am not trying to talk anyone into buying any of these things. There are a couple of machines I will recommend. There are many more and because I haven’t mentioned them does not mean they are not great . ....

Yesterday I made Ezekiel Bread using Sue Becker’s recipe. It was a fun bread to make and it is probably one of the best tasting breads I’ve made. This is more of a batter type bread than a sandwich type bread. I loved it for breakfast this morning. We had a thicker slice, toasted and...

I think I got my first grain mill in either 2007 or 2009. I cannot remember . . ok. I was wrong. I found this blog post. I got it in 2008. We’ve had mostly homemade bread since 2008 so for almost 16 years, we’ve had bread made from truly whole grains. When anyone has...

I don't know where this month has gone. It's been filled with activity, not the least of which is keeping up with breadmaking from two different sourdough starters! What have I gotten myself into? Loaves are being gifted continually. I've branched out into English muffins, cinnamon buns and multi-grain breads too.Without a lot of words or explanation I'm going to catch up with a post 

I don't know where this month has gone. It's been filled with activity, not the least of which is keeping up with breadmaking from two different sourdough starters! What have I gotten myself into? Loaves are being gifted continually. I've branched out into English muffins, cinnamon buns and multi-grain breads too.Without a lot of words or explanation I'm going to catch up with a post 

I’ve always loved homemade flour tortillas but once I started making Lavash, I don’t think I’ve made flour tortillas again. It’s so easy – I can’t even imagine a way that it could fail. In today’s world, I make sure I have plenty of things I can cook using basic ingredients – things we love...

I make a lot of biscuits. We probably eat too many biscuits but . . we probably eat too much of everything. I have a theory . . I have a lot of theories. <G> I do not have a problem with eating biscuits and butter. This blog post mentioned four of my favorite biscuit...

Last night I was watching a cooking video and the lady made Air Fryer Pretzel Bites. They looked easy to make and they looked delicious so this morning, right after breakfast, I made them. I didn’t spend a lot of time rolling them into a nice, uniform log before cutting them. I’m more of a...

Vince unpacked a box that had been in his shop and it had several cookbooks in it. One is a cookbook from a church I had attended while living in Louisiana. Those types of cookbooks always have the best recipes. There were several Popeye’s copycat biscuit recipes. This cookbook was published in the late 1990’s...

With all the canning going on, I haven’t been baking much. I’ll make a plain, easy, quick loaf of bread every few 4 or 5 days but other than that, I haven’t baked much. Today when I finished up the last project for Every Bit Counts, I wanted to bake something. Anything. I had been...

My goal is to be using no storebought flour by the end of the year. I want to be able to grind 100% of the flour we use from the various grains we keep on hand. I’m not sure I’ll ever be as confident using whole grains. With all purpose or bread flour, I can...

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I’m going to do several posts because I really spent a lot of time in the kitchen today. Yesterday I got up and felt kinda wimpy. I went out to water and decided I was feeling worse so I went inside, got back in bed, took a long nap but never did really feel better....

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Yesterday I made two loaves of Japanese Milk Bread. The recipe calls for making two loaves but I’ve almost always made three smaller loaves and they work better for us. Yesterday I was also making rye bread and since I mostly use the wall oven, I can only bake three loaves in there at once...

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