Category: cooking
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Stove-top stuffing
stove-top stuffing We recently found ourselves with a lot of stale bread. What does one do with stale bread? Make stuffing! We weren’t about to actually stuff anything (besides our bellies), so I just made it on the stove in a pan. Clare came up with the idea to make it, and with the brilliant…
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Vegetarian pho
vegetarian pho Today I made the second new recipe of the year. Clare has been very excited about pho lately, but most pho restaurants don’t seem to offer a vegetarian option, so we thought we would give it a try. We mostly followed the recipe from the ellie may website, which was the first google…
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potato pancakes
leftover mashed potatoes make for tasty potato pancakes Last Thursday we had Thanksgiving dinner at my house, which was a lot of fun (pictures are on the fedibblety blog. Afterwards, I was left with a lot of leftovers, including lots of mashed potatoes. We had made 10 pounds worth, which was probably too much. I…
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Seitan in a can
Sometime this past summer I made an interesting discovery in the international aisle of the local Food-Coop, Bloomingfoods — Seitan in a can. What is seitan you might ask? It is wheat gluten. And what is wheat gluten? It is the part of wheat that makes bread stick together. Glutinous means sticky, and that is…
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sourdough wheat with spelt berries
I have been baking bread for over 6 years now. I started in 2001, my last semester at Grinnell College, with the hopes of producing some bread like I fell in love with in Germany. I started off with fairly simple recipes from a Fleischmann’s baking book my mom gave me. That book got me…