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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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A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about making more corned beef to can. My big decision was to figure out whether to can it in pints or quarts. I knew pints would be ok for making corned beef with eggs or corned beef with potatoes but for sandwiches, I wasn’t sure. Before,...

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We haven’t had a bacon, egg and biscuits breakfast in a while. I’ve been sticking with the one meal a day and it’s been working for me. We like to eat breakfast around 10 and then I don’t get hungry again til way late in the day and I don’t like eating late so I...

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I’ve talked about the Japanese Milk Bread here before. This is the recipe I use. I do not use bread flour. I mill hard white wheat and sift it but if I’m in a big hurry, I will use all purpose flour. I also don’t use dough enhancer. I don’t even have it here but...

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Late last week I made loaf bread – the Oatmeal Toasting Bread that makes three loaves. I took one to a friend and got this note back from her. Yesterday morning I looked at our menu for the week and baked the rolls and buns we’ll need for the week. I ground 4-1/2 cups of...

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This morning I wanted to make biscuits using spelt. The Essential Home-Ground Flour book by Sue Becker is so useful for those of us who like milling our flours. Thumbing through the book, I found three biscuit recipes that I could use. One was more traditional – grated cold butter, buttermilk and other “normal” ingredients....

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There are so many bread recipes we love but I end up making the same ones over and over. For probably more than 10 years, I’ve made Oatmeal Toasting Bread a couple of times a month. This Russian Black Bread is near the top of my list too. I like it with ham, turkey and...

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Sometimes I start blog posts and don’t finish them, then I can’t remember if I added the info to another blog post or not so . . if you’ve already read this, chalk it up to old age and forgetfulness. I did go back and didn’t see it on other posts but I could have...

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