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Archive for October, 2006

Chocolate Bar

Posted in sweets on October 31, 2006 | 1 Comment »

Chocolate is definitely not encouraged in Nourishing Traditions. There are several recipes using carob, but none with cocoa or chocolate.
I’m not convinced cacao beans are bad for you. It is a bean that is actually fermented in a multi-day process. It does have some caffeine, but it is extremely high in anti-oxidants (higher than blueberries). [...]

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Bread Update

Posted in baking, bread on October 30, 2006 | No Comments »

My bread is getting closer.
It is apparent that gluten development is the key to getting the bread I want. Ingredients (e.g. honey, oil, etc.) are nice, but they are peripheral to the key issue of gluten development. The key to gluten development seems to be making sure the flour gets adequately hydrated. The techniques [...]

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Hot Cereal

Posted in breakfasts, cooking, recipes on October 26, 2006 | 3 Comments »

I never used to be a fan of hot cereals. However, they have grown on me with age. Going off of recipes in both Nourishing Traditions and Sue Gregg’s Breakfasts book, I have arrived at a hot cereal I really like.
I take whatever whole grains I have on hand. Usually that’s brown rice, barley, oats, [...]

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Beef and Rice Pastries

Posted in baking on October 25, 2006 | No Comments »

I love pastries of all sorts. I thought I’d try this lamb and rice pastry recipe from Nourishing Traditions. I used beef instead of lamb since I happened to have some on hand and it’s a lot cheaper.
The first thing I noticed is that either I did something dreadfully wrong (does beef expand [...]

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Bread Stuff

Posted in baking, bread on October 24, 2006 | No Comments »

On my other blog, before the beginning of this blog, I had someone ask me for details on grain sources and recipes for my sourdough bread. Here are some answers.
I use 100% hard red spring wheat. I can buy hard red wheat locally at a couple different health food stores (Whole Foods and Arbor Farms). [...]

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Gourmet

Posted in kitchen logistics on October 20, 2006 | No Comments »

I’m currently trying out a program called Gourmet. I’m a Linux user and this installed easily in Ubuntu. Apparently there is a version for Windows as well, but it doesn’t look like it’s real easy to install and is a bit behind the Linux version.
At first I thought that it would be difficult to use [...]

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Over Risen

Posted in baking, bread on October 19, 2006 | No Comments »

I’ve been working on my bread skills (see details from my other blog) and learned an interesting thing today. I learned how to over-rise bread.
The jaggies on the left side are where I broke off pieces of baked-on overflowing dough (which where quite tasty). The holes are large and uneven, which is not exactly what [...]

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Chicken Stock

Posted in cooking on October 17, 2006 | 8 Comments »

So over the weekend I made chicken stock.
I followed the guide in the Nourishing Traditions cookbook. I’ve done this before, but this time I cooked it for twice as long as I have before. Thursday I moved my chicken (a free-range chicken) from the freezer to the refrigerator. Friday afternoon I put it in the [...]

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My Philosophy

Posted in foodosophy on October 17, 2006 | 2 Comments »

I’ve always been interested in healthy eating. That’s probably due to my Seventh-day Adventist upbringing, which I left behind. While I gave up the teachings of the Seventh-day Adventist church (especially vegetarianism), I did retain the Adventist interest in health.
After a long journey through various teachings on diet, including such regimens as vegetarianism, low-fat, Atkins, [...]

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How it Began

Posted in kitchen logistics on October 16, 2006 | 1 Comment »

About 4 months ago I took over the kitchen in our house. My wife Shari had taken care of the kitchen for the first 12 years of our life together and had lost a lot of her love of cooking and baking. She also had a huge change in her work life and became one [...]

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