Judah and I have been experimenting with sourdough lately. We have made some great bread, mostly whole wheat with some other grains added in for intrigue… I’m really learning alot about the amazing properties of sourdough and how useful an addition it is to one’s diet. We generally only eat sourdough bread (and pancakes!) but [...]
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Sourdough…
Posted in Alaska, Cooking, Family, Health, Life, My sweet baby on January 28, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Happy Cake
Posted in Brewing, Cooking, Cute Things Kids Do, Family, Life, My sweet baby, Our Terrible Dogs on January 16, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Judah and Zach thoughtfully made a cake for my birthday last week. Zach claims that Judah did most of the assembling. It appears to have been a very fun time. Even in black and white. Blaster was pleased to be able to join in on the excitement as well!The end result was this:And this too:It [...]
Happy Days
Posted in Cooking, Cute Things Kids Do, Family, Life, My sweet baby, Seasons on December 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It is very clear to me this year, that the designated time we have together to celebrate Christmas, is really all about spending our time together, peacefully and happily and mirthfully. The surrounding months are busy with work and classes and various time consuming activities and events…but I am so thankful to have this protected [...]
Ode to My Sling
Posted in Breast feeding, Cooking, Gardening, Homer, Life, My sweet baby on July 21, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I cannot imagine a life in which I have a small child but no sling. People think I am crazy in my exuberance over this amazing little scrap of lovely green linen. They have no idea however, how easy the past 15 months have been for me due to said scrap of linen, and how [...]
Necessity Dictates:
Posted in Alaska, Bethel, Brewing, Cooking, FAIRBANKS!!, Gardening, Homer, Life, My sweet baby on July 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Summer fun. I feel like there is always so much to do during summer…and time goes by so quickly (and summer only lasts for like, two months anyway) that before you know it, the snow is falling and unachieved summer plans are sabotaged. I’m just going to make a list of Necessary Summer Experiences for [...]
Fermentation
Posted in Brewing, Cooking, Homer, My sweet baby on June 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I was cleaning up the kitchen over the weekend and realized that there were quite a number of things (intentionally!) fermenting on the counter. Zach has been using sourdough for all of our bread baking, pancake making, etc. He has a white starter and a whole wheat starter. They are great. Anyway, they were both [...]
What?
Posted in Brewing, Cooking, Cute Things Kids Do, Gardening, Life on June 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Our garden is moldy. Zach went to the trouble of building mini greenhouses for our boxes, so that our precious plants would have some respite from the dreadful wind. Evidently they are doing their job…perhaps just a bit too well. Zach remedied the issue with the covers, but now we have moldy plants. I’m not [...]
Whats for Dinner?
Posted in Cooking on June 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Sometimes I really can’t think of anything new and interesting to cook…a cooking rut, if you will! We regularly have pasta and vegetable dishes, egg and vegetable bakes, spinach enchiladas, salmon, different Asian dishes, often with tofu, vegetarian chili, some form of moose meat that has been sitting in our freezer for ages, lentils…I don’t [...]
Cheese!
Posted in Cooking, Homer on May 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I really love cheese. I especially love nice cheese. I have been known to eat cheese sprayed from a can (not qualifying as particularly nice cheese). What I would really love however, is to make my own cheese. Nothing too committed…I am thinking more along the lines of 30 minute mozzarella over 10 year aged [...]
Messy Faces
Posted in Bethel, Cooking, Cute Things Kids Do, Gardening, Life on May 11, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Zach Brown made delicious sourdough pancakes with blueberries for breakfast. He has a great sourdough starter from his parents who received it from some friends in Bethel. (he has also been making all of our bread from this sourdough) He made Judah a special pancake in the shape of a bear’s head, with blueberries for [...]
