By Nick • March 9, 2010
I think the first installment of Guess the “Food” was pretty easy. Too easy actually. So I’ve kicked it up a notch for this post. The packaging is pretty bland and there aren’t a lot of hints here. This one should be tricky.
I subbed out the actual serving unit for widgets as it would completely [...]
Posted in Guess The Food, musings | Tagged cooking oils, cottonseed oil, flour, Food Links, food science, guess, health, Ingredients, nutrition, polyunsaturated fats, saturated fat, trans fat, vegetable fats and oils
By Nick • September 16, 2009
It finally happened. I finally took the plunge into the world of sourdough. It’s been a long time coming. My real hindrance for the sourdough starter has been planning. I’m just not that great at planning two weeks in advance or whatever.
But a few weeks ago, I decided it was finally time to try my [...]
Posted in baking | Tagged flour, how to make a sourdough starter, pineapple juice, rye flour, sourdough, sourdough starter
By Nick • August 11, 2009
I had this odd moment a few weeks ago at the checking out at the grocery store where I had five different kinds of flour in my cart. The cashier asked if I was a baker and I replied that I was a blogger. That was the end of that conversation.
As I got home though, [...]
Posted in Learning to Cook, musings | Tagged baking, flour, Learning to Cook, musings, wheat
By Nick • April 30, 2009
There are some things in cooking that aren’t glamorous or wonderful at first glance. They aren’t expensive and the ingredients are things you can buy in any grocery store. But these are the things that can seriously change your life. In my mind these small things are what I’m really learning to love about baking [...]
Posted in baking, good food, healthy | Tagged baking, bread, flour, how to bake bread, loaf, sandwich bread, wheat, wheat bread
