Category: tucking in

  • What a fruitcake?

    What a fruitcake?

    December 17 of 31 December-ish posts First, before you read any further and must feel that crushing disappointment of yet another recipe blog that doesn’t seem to put the recipes at the top of the page, while you scroll to the bottom and try to find something resembling an ingredient list, let me be honest and up

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  • Bardo’s Bakery: Oat Cakes

    Bardo’s Bakery: Oat Cakes

    December 4 of 31 December-ish posts Some kids dream of running away to join the circus. (Well, at least that’s what they do in movies, right?) Some adults dream of quitting their jobs and starting a business. If I could run away today (with a few hundred grand in my pocket to help the plan) I would

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  • Preconceptions of Eats

    Preconceptions of Eats

    December 2 of 31 December-ish posts I’ve been dabbling in making pizza as of late. Except. Except having just been in New York City and now having a trip to Chicago planned for later next year, defining what exactly kind of pizza in which I’ve been dabbling is not so clear. Pizza is bread with stuff, right? After

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  • Sourdough Bagels, New York Style

    Sourdough Bagels, New York Style

    It’s been a couple weeks since we got back from our trip to Manhattan. While my daughter loved Broadway, I really got into the food, in particular hunting down a couple good bagel bakeries and sampling their authentic wares. Of course, this left me yearning for some New York back home, and wondering if I

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  • Local Flours Sours: GroundUp Coffee Flour

    Local Flours Sours: GroundUp Coffee Flour

    I was feeling adventurous when I bought a wee bag of local-ish upcycled coffee flour from a local food market. For what it purported to be, coffee flour turned out to be little more than milled used coffee grounds, cleaned, dried and packaged as a gluten-free additive for bread or other baking needs. When I

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