Every so often I do a whois on kerner.com to see if it has recently expired and I might be able to snatch it up. Imagine my surprise this morning when I noticed that it has a new owner. Until recently it had always been owned by some insurance like organization (the Kerner Insurance Group or something similar). Today the …
Baking is SCIENCE! (the latest cookwise post)
Okay, so it seemed like a good idea at the time, but the Cookwise Project was a bit of a flop. It’s a great book, but my original concept wasn’t all that suitable to my lifestyle. I manaaged to do fairly well with the bread chapter (I love to bake bread). What did it in was the fat chapter (which …
Lack of blogging
I’m not sure if anybody still reads this blog. I know that the page views have gone down substantially. If anybody wonders it’s because I’ve been overly busy at work lately. We’ve adjusted our strategy to focus more on knowledge management rather than just training. The Educara web site has also gotten quite a makeover. I’m actually excited about this …
Quizzila: Which Food Network Personality Are You?
You are ALTON BROWN, host of “Good Eats”!Geeky and quirky, a former indie film directorturned foodie, you seek to put science to workfor you in your kitchen. You concentrate onproper technique, and understanding why itworks. You also take pride in using yourclever wit to debunk popular (read: INCORRECT)thought about cooking. Youre just a little bitof a pedagogue, but thats cool, …
Everyday Food
I don’t think I’ve written about this topic yet, so I figured I would. I know a lot of people will scoff at what I’m about to say, but that’s fine by me. I love Martha Stewart Omnimedia properties. That’s not to say I like Martha Stewart, frankly I think she’s vile, but rather that I applaud the quality of …
Jambalaya
Aside from having been really busy lately and having no end in sight (we actually realized that we’ve already booked up all the weekends in April, ugh), I’ve not been cooking as much as I would like. That came to an end last night. We recently received a 7.5qt Le Crueset dutch oven as the final remainder of Williams-Sonoma credit …
Man Food Show Appliances
I think that last night’s Good Eats was better than most of them have been in a while. I’ve got to say I’ve been somewhat disappointed lately, it seems like Brown may be running out of ideas. That said, The Man Food Show is a very good episode. It has This brings me to my question: What brand of griddle/fryer …
Still alive
I’m still alive, I’ve just been swamped at work, church, and other duties. This afternoon I also got hit by a comment spammer. I’ve been going through everything and turning off comments and deleting the ads. I have also finally upgraded to MT 2.661. I’m going to leave comments on for a few posts just to see if the upgrade …
Baking, or not
I’ve slacked off in my baking. For some reason I’m finding it really hard to bake during the week. I never used to have trouble with it, but it’s holding no interest for me lately. I am continuing in the Cookwise project though. I’m starting both a yeast starter and a traditional starter today. The yeast starter will be used …
Morning Bread Notes
So the morning has gone fairly well. After starting the French style loaves I realized that I needed to get containers to hold all of the flour, wheat germ, etc. as the bags on shelves are not acceptable. During the first rise I made trips to both Wal-Mart (ugh) and Target (only slightly better) to find containers that will hold …
A day of baking
Today marks the first full fledged venture into Cookwise expirimentation. I’ve read through the entire bread chapter and will be baking 2-3 different bread recipes today. I’ll also be starting a starter or two for sourdough purposes. There was a time when I didn’t buy bread, rather I baked a loaf of bread every day. Those days are gone for …
Flour
I couldn’t sleep and so I’ve gotten up for my first day of serious bread bakery. The first thing I’m struck by is the amount of flour in the kitchen. Not necessarily in quantity, but rather in variety. I give Sarah a lot of credit for not complaining too loudly about the bread ingredients on the grocery list (although she …