Eaten Up

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Bread and Nuts

Beer nuts for breakfast at 3 p.m. My circadian rhythm is officially messed up after getting up for the day by 2 a.m. and then after bed sometimes after 2 a.m.

This potato dill bread recipe takes me back to primary school — coming home to bread coming out the oven, slathering with butter while […]

What Would a Non-Gluten, Vegetarian Manwich Look Like?

On a rice-flour bread. It’s texture was hard-crumble cakey and a little bread like.
Gluten free brown rice bread:
3/4 cup milk
2 eggs
1 1/2 tsp Apple Cider Vinegar
2 Tbsp Olive Oil
1 Tbsp Honey
1-2/3 cups Brown Rice Flour
1/3 cup corn starch
2 Tbsp Potato Startch
1/2 tsp Salt
2-1/4 tsp Xanthan Gum
1 tsp active dry yeast

The brown mushrooms browned slowly […]

Gravy Sandwich

An update on what dad used to eat — his was thick beef gravy and thin slices of roast. Mine is mushroom and onion gravy over baby spinach. His was thick homemade white bread, mine homemade whole wheat and rye.
Looking down the barrel of the bread machine

Tea Biscuits

A heart to heart, sweet to savory.

Half the dough had currants and sugar sprinkled over it.

The base recipe was
2 cups whole wheat flour
1 1/2 tbsp sugar
1 tbsp baking powder
1/2 tsp soda
1/2 cup unsalted cultured butter, cold
1 cup 3% fat sour cream
Stir together the dry. Cut in the butter until oatmeal-sized crumble. Gently mix in sour […]

Bakery Goodness

Bread and Sons Bakery on Elgin had some boreka (phyllo filled with feta), cinnamon rolls, chocolate croissant and raisin bread that’s left of the shot — they all looked good for a lunch in a park.
No seagull, even if you call us as territory, you can’t have any.

Butter Biscuits

A hot pan of mom’s tea biscuits.
I’d often come home to this in primary school. It’s simple as
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp sugar
1/2 cup chilled butter
3/4 cup milk
Sift floour, baking powder, salt and sugar. Cut in butter with a pastry knife until the flour-butter is the texture of oatmeal. Make […]

Pizza x 3

Brie, pear, herb pesto on a thin crust at Black Thorn.

Asparagus and broccoli pizza at home.

Fresh torn herbs and unripened cheese and some danish rinded cheese and mushrooms.