A leavening agent, also called leavening or leaven, is used in doughs and batters to help them rise by making a foaming action–the leavening agent incorporates gas bubbles into the dough giving a light and soft finished product. These are the most common leavening agents that you would find in an everyday kitchen. Active Dry… Read More
Hubby loves buttermilk but buttermilk is expensive, unless you can find it on sale. With this in mind, I have been looking into making our own. I came across a reference to homemade cultured buttermilk by accident about a month ago and that started the chain of research on the subject. Why should culturing buttermilk… Read More
I grew onions this year! Lots of big beautiful onions for the first time! It is not, however, the first time I have planted onions, just the first time they actually grew into onions. Those are my onions in the picture above! Next year I am planting a lot more. I didn’t grow enough to… Read More
Just about every family around here has had a touch of the flu. Speaking of germs, when we were kids visiting at Grandma’s farm, there was a big tin bucket with a dipper in the kitchen. She did not have running water so she would go out to the outside pump and get every bit… Read More
The word ‘bokeh’ is very popular right now, so in this installment of my ongoing series in helping me–and you–take better photographs of food, I want to explain what that really means. Bokeh is a Japanese word for blur, but when it’s applied to photography, it doesn’t just mean any blur. It relates to the… Read More
Pickled eggs…yum. A delicious treat, and when the menfolk are having a playdate poker game, it gives the garage the “bar food” ambiance their friends find so impressive. FYI! If you are going to feed your menfolk copious amounts of spicy pickled eggs, make sure they are immediately leaving the house for camping or will… Read More
any MSG free recipes and substitutes for bouillon used to make my own, as the homemade recipes all contain flavored granules or bouillon which contain MSG
My MIL made the only thing I actually liked using the old fashioned citron fruit mix – a very soft cookie. Not a bar, just a regular cookie. Not particularly spicy, and more sponge cake like than a normal cookie. For some reason, the citron tasted good in this particular cookie. Other than in this... Read More
When I was a kid, my aunt used to can crab apples that I loved. Never thought to ask her for the recipe when she was alive, but a friend has a crab apple tree so loaded with crab apples, that some of the branches are touching the ground. When she told me that I... Read More