Yogurt Making
Heat 3/4 of a gallon – 3 quarts because we have 3 quart jars – of new raw milk. When it reaches 180 leave for 10 to 30 minutes. Cool to 110 and pour into clean jars. Add the yougurt culture. Here it is the original yogurt – or a
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Tuna, Ahi and Fine
Menu for Fresh Ahi Tuna Tuna is breaded with a fine mixture of panko flakes, salt, pepper, wasabe powder, and fried quickly – 2 minutes a side – in a hot pan and a film of olive oil. But of course, this is the last step of this meal. Sear
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Harissa
The hot chills we grew from seeds (send by a friend via mail, as a dare) are so hot that only a grain spices up a whole meal. We learned, after learning the hard way, that these chilies are called 5 Pot Chili (meaning one will make five pots of
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Dough for Bread, Pizza, Rolls
Making Bread, Pizza Dough, Rolls Flour, 67% of flour weight in water, pinch of salt. That’s the recipe. Mix it together and let rest for at least one hour. Knead dough and return to a slightly warm place to rise.
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One Dough : Many Uses
Pizza, then Bread You may not have flour – we heard there has been a run on it and toilet paper during Governor Polis’ Stay at Home order to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus. Early in the quarentine, we knew we’d need plenty of flour and so called the
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Pepper – 3 Ways
To Grind Peppercorns: You can buy several types of peppercorns from Savory Spice Shop – they ship as well as have brick & mortar stores – and offer high quality black peppercorns . We buy what is called Tellicherry, and make it suitable for all uses by grinding it. Grinding
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Peppers: Green Red Yellow Orange
Cut both ends of the pepper. Slip the meat away from the stem, set aside. Discard core and seeds, and save the small ring that looks like the one you removed from the top. Now you have a ring of clean pepper read to use in any recipe. Slide into
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Apple Cider
Making Hard Cider From local trees around Lakewood, with friends and some home-made equipment we chopped apples and fermented the juice in carboys we had once used for beer making.
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Oatmeal, Cheap and Tasty
Rolled or Steel Cut – Organic oats from Whole Foods are $1.69 per pound. The rolled style are cut, then steamed before being rolled. These cook slightly quicker and have a creamier texture than the ones on the right that are just cut. Neither one of these has any resemblance
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Tomato preservation
From summer to the next one. So many Opalka tomatos and so many of their fresh beefsteak relatives still on the vines we decided to send them to the freezer, where we could enjoy them all winter. Read on to see how easy it is. Our freezer is the one