In the course of my sourdough education I’ve been told that you can use the sourdough starter straight up, without adding more flour and doing exciting things like waiting all night. But I had not actually read such a recipe till this week. I was looking for sourdough pumpkin pancake recipes and found a recipe [...]
I went to look up the saints for September 16 and oh, my! Some times when I do this the saints are obscure to me. Not so much this time. These were some amazing people. Start with Saint Cyprian of Carthage. He was a bishop in Carthage who survived the persecutions of Emperor Decius in [...]
A mysterious kitchen tool that I was given. The box says "terbuat dari bahan stainless steel". I believe it means "made from stainless steel" in Indonesian. I couldn't get a readable picture of the instructions so I have transcribed them. Multi-functionStainless Steel Pressure Surface MachineThank you very much for choosing our products to serve you [...]
Working in downtown Washington, DC, fifty years ago meant that at lunch I occasionally walked to the National Gallery of Art where at the time, the gallery showed films about various artists. One of the films was about Toulouse-Lautrec. I remember only that I liked him and was very surprised by his art. The Shy [...]
Two amazing articles crossed paths with me this week. The author of the first piece has a tagline that says, “String is far more important than the wheel in the pantheon of inventions." https://hakaimagazine.com/features/the-long-knotty-world-spanning-story-of-string/ As a spinner myself, I am very open to this idea. I do admit that I have never thought of string [...]
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