Month: September 2003

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…

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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…

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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……

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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.…

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