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
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
I make a pot of tea in the evening, and sometimes have quite a bit left over. Rather than let it go to waste, I took to making “tea kefir“; mixing it with some water kefir for the kefirs second ferment. (Not the grains, just the finished kefir.) It tastes... more