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Baking Secrets

A 15-minute Pasta Red Sauce that will change your life!

January 23, 2011
15-minute Pasta Red Sauce!

Mr. Tastebuds watches “America’s Test Kitchen” every single Saturday and I joined him for a minute while I finished my coffee. But my interest was piqued when I heard the phrase, “To create a complex, brightly flavored sauce, one that tastes first and foremost of tomatoes, in the time it takes to boil pasta”. I [...]

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Sourdough Starters; From Start to Finish and all the Fun in Between!

January 18, 2010
Sourdough Starters

Sourdough Starter; A culture of wild yeast and lactobacilli grown in a medium of flour and liquid such as water, milk or beer. I began using a Sourdough Starter in my breads about five years ago and I’ve used a Sourdough Starter ever since. I love the flavor the Starter adds to my breads and [...]

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My Garlic Adventure

August 15, 2009
Wisconsin Garlic Farm

On Friday I went to, We Grow Garlic, a farm in Wisconsin and hopefully bought a year’s worth of garlic! I know that you’re thinking “I did not know you could grow garlic in Wisconsin”. Well, I wondered about that too. I’m not sure if it’s the climate, the soil or maybe the loving hands [...]

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Kefir….my secret ingredient

June 25, 2008
Kefir Grains

From Wikipedia: Kefir (alternately keefir, kephir, kewra, talai, mudu kekiya, milkkefir, búlgaros) is a fermented milk drink that originated in the Caucasus region. It is prepared by inoculating cow, goat or sheep’s milk with kefir grains. Kefir grains are a combination of bacterua and yeasts in a matrix of proteins, lipids and sugars. This symbiotic [...]

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