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Sourdough Starter

This weekend I started to get back to something I spent most of last year doing — making sourdough bread and keeping an ongoing live starter. It takes a couple of weeks for the full sourdough flavor to develop but initial results for this new batch were warmly received.

I got the [...]

While I’m on a bit of a tear, I’m going to have to start a little cookbook corner – and since cookbooks are important and my time is important, I’ll try to set it up via an Amazon affiliate thingy so I can help pay for Tomatilla!

Getting back to the food, my kids have been pushing me to come up with a ramen noodle cookbook since I have long been fond of coming up with creative uses for these cheapo noodles…

So, here’s the first one.

Lemon, tomato, parmesan noodles

Boil a kettle (or pot) of water. Meanwhile, slice up a tomato and [...]

I’m trying to figure out the best way to start including the most recent recipe list in the links on the right – and eventually I’d like to have a nice, handy little searchable recipe database too. If my slightly more philosophical ramblings get a lot better I could include them too.

And, once I have [...]

In some ways I like times of change. More possible options open out for you. You take seriously ideas that you would have dismissed in seconds. You think harder about where you are headed and what you are doing.

But you also stare over the edge of the pit and tremble.

And since I am the way [...]

Talking loudly in public.

Something insulates the voice
From the brain, the brain from the ears.
But only when you’re talking on the phone in public.

Is it exhibitionism?
Is it a complete focus?
Or is it just plain fucking rude?

I know that not everyone does it.
I don’t do it.
Some of my friends don’t do it.

But some of them do.

I don’t [...]

I’ve clearly been on something of a recipe drive lately. It has been a few weeks since I wrote something that didn’t include a recipe so I am now resolving to do better.

Work at the moment is hanging in limbo. We just finished a huge project and literally simultaneously with that we got word [...]

I was trying to learn some new formatting to make this blog look a little nicer last night and I got immersed – just AFTER I put the noodles in the water to boil. A while later I wondered what the crackling sound was but couldn’t be bothered to find out. Since the vent fan [...]

Yet another 100 degree day. Yet another 95 degree night. So Jan asked if there was some kind of cool fruit dessert on a tart I could make. Since we don’t have anything like a tart lying around (OK – get your jokes in now) and I was certainly not going to turn the oven [...]

Dinner with a few friends is the best. A full blown party is too much work – the hosts never can really relax and enjoy it. But up to about twelve people is just great. You want to do something a bit special for guests, so you make more of an effort.

Yesterday for dinner [...]