I don't eat Oreos: I spent weeks at the Oreo factory in Houston in '92 and the appropriate quote is Roy Batty's. Irene loves Oreos so I have never talked about it, and won't where Irene can hear or...
The bacon's getting there. A fair bit of variability in this in thickness, still, it'll work out. I put together no-knead dough, as, for Mother's Day, Irene gets to pick the meals.
The soups are finished. The broccoli with extra virgin olive oil and lemon juice and black pepper, the cauliflower with whole milk, heavy cream, and butter, and a Riesling white wine vinegar and...
8 quarts of cream of broccoli soup, 3 quarts of cream of cauliflower soup (very old school, using milk as the boiling liquid). They're both stems from when we cut florets, tossed in bags in the...
Okay, it's pork day. Seventeen pound of ham (two hams) going into the brine and thirty-plus pound of dry-brined pork belly, now also known as bacon, going into the smoker. And two pork butts going...
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and...
I was lamenting that my nascent vegggie garden on the deck isn't getting enough sun, so the magnificent Colin Schwarting made a table out of scrap lumber in the basement to raise the plants up. Happy...
The Dutch ryebread came out great. I added 75 ml water (hydration previously was 47%, this brought it to 50.75%) and lowered the baking temperature to 200F (it was 230F). There's a little bit too...
