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Short: Friday Fires
Long work days, short cool evenings. I had my phone in one hand and an axe in the other (metaphorically speaking, of course) as Friday’s quitting time slipped into view. The benefit of (still) working from home is that I can check the laptop for rogue, last-minute emails even while I heat up the backyard
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Short: Pour Over Coffee
Maybe it was obvious, but those little coffee pods had their moment… and that moment has passed. At least, it has for me… And maybe it’s also obvious, but picking up a cheap little pour over cone (for roughly half the cost of a box of pods) has me making my afternoon cup in a
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Strip This Pan, Part One
My big ol’ twenty inch reversible grill has developed some pitting over the summer and I’ve been contemplating the pros and cons of various methods to strip a pan down to bare metal and start the seasoning process from scratch. 1. A self-cleaning oven on clean mode heats up the pan hot enough to incinerate
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Potluck Impossible
As the sun sets this evening I’ll be partaking in a strange and magical event that has become rare elusive these past eighteen months: a small housewarming party. A dozen or so (fully vaccinated) friends and I are converging on the newest abode of one of them to sit and chat and eat and chat
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The Artful Joy of Splitting Sourdough
A friend of mine killed her starter. Dead. I didn’t ask how. Vacations. Life. A summer heat wave. It happens. So a few days later I just split mine and delivered one half it to her in a plastic pouch. Problem solved, and she could go back to baking loaves. This marks the third time