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Baguettes (French Bread)
Baguettes are long and thin shaped french bread using only the most basic of ingredients. Flour, water, yeast, and salt. It really is incredible how much variation you can achieve using the same simple ingredient list! After many years of bread baking, I’d still never attempted french bread baguettes, it... more
Read moreWildcraft Infusion: Calming Red Clover, Lavender, Lemon
Over the summer I collected all kinds of “weeds” for use throughout the year. Among them were red clover and lavender. After removing any parts I didn’t want, I laid it all on a (I used a large screen I keep aside just for drying, washed and dried like one... more
Read moreFruit & Vegetable Pulp Crackers
Last week I started a Apple Raspberry Wine. Rather than discarding the pulp afterward, I decided to use it. Whenever I juice or make a mash I am left with a portion of fruit or vegetable pulp that normally is thrown away. I have occasionally added it to cakes or... more
Read moreSmoked Turkey Jerky
Having procured a large turkey, we butchered it and used the breast meat for smoked turkey jerky. We cut the turkey breast into 1″ wide pieces, 1/2″ thick and covered it in a flavored brine for 24 hours in an airtight container in the fridge. Brine: 1/2 cup brown sugar... more
Read moreSD Blueberry Poppy Seed Pancakes
The weather has made for the strangest winter this year in the Columbia Valley. Today was a balmy 10 degrees, warm, bright and sunny – and it’s still January! I took the opportunity to do a bit of yard work. Discovering my Lilies had optimistically sprouted 2 vibrant green inches... more
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