Inspiration & Resources for the modern homemaker
I bought a grain grinder when I lived in Charleston. The ducks in our front pond (yes, our apartment complex had a duck pond) ate a lot of less-than-ideal loaves of bread. To this day I wonder how a loaf a bread can come out heavier than the combined weight of its ingredients. I had a blast finding grains. Except… Read More
This post is one I was going to research and do later in the year. But…I’m in the middle of creating a new dessert: “Butterscotch Blondie Cheesecake.” And various recipes for butterscotch and cheesecake call for multiple types of dairy products: milk, heavy cream, whipping cream, heavy whipping cream, etc. And I’ve been wondering how much I really, really need… Read More
Semi-quick story: My husband likes coarse sea salt. I don’t get it, but whatever. I don’t dump salt on finished food anyway. For Christmas I was making brined turkey that called for 1 cup of kosher salt. Now, I quickly checked Google (what did people do before Google!? I mean, I made it through high school referencing newspapers, books, and… Read More
I suspect the hidden cause of many a failed recipe is bad ingredients. Not bad as in spoiled or expired. Bad as in low-quality or the wrong ingredient. I have to admit that when I started cooking- with my sense of thrift- I had a tendency to go for cheaper ingredients. I’ve stopped that practice. And everything tastes better. High-quality… Read More