I’ve been leaning vegan the last few months, thanks to watching Forks Over Knives, reading Engine 2 Diet and Dr Joel Fuhrman’s Super Immunity. Our vegan-ish Thanksgiving dinner was pretty yummy – I skipped the turkey course – but today I was ready for something completely different. There were mushrooms in the fridge and after…

Bread baking is all about waiting around for the yeast to do it’s work.  Counting the time to make the starter, that boule took 3 weeks of waiting and only 45 minutes of hands on work. It’s 100% whole wheat and made with home grown wild yeast. The baguettes are the usual pain al ancienne made…

Today I baked the 100% Whole Wheat Sandwich Bread from Peter Reinhart’s Whole Grain Breads. I doubled the recipe and made 2 sandwich loaves and one small boule. I used organic hard red winter wheat – which Gary ground in our grain mill.  It’s been years since I made 100% whole wheat bread, so I…

Y’all remember the long gone Cafe Laredo in Lake Jackson? Years ago, a friend of mine gave me their salsa recipe and I’ve been making it ever since. It’s always a hit, easy to make and easy to modify. Since posting secret info on the internet is all the rage these days, I thought I’d…

Yes! A year and a half after we put the spores in the logs, the shittake mushrooms are fruiting. We had almost 5 inches of rain last Thursday and Friday and the mushrooms must have loved it! I just picked 3 huge mushrooms that were big enough to slice for an asian noodle salad that…