If your popover fails, it still makes a delicious hockey puck. I also love popovers because they are relatively quick to throw together (about an hour to mix and bake), use 4 basic ingredients (milk, butter, flour, eggs), and are mostly healthy: they won’t induce the same carb coma as pancakes and have fairly little [...]
Last weekend I visited Hudson, NY for the Prometheus Radio Project’s first full-power radio barnraising. I spent Saturday morning volunteering in the kitchen: despite all of the consensus-process workshops offered at the barnraising, the kitchen ran as an autocracy. Lunch remained delicious.
During an AmeriCorps icebreaker, I matched my desire to learn vegan baking with someone who knew how. Who say’s icebreakers are worthless (well, I sometimes do). I got the following two tips: Egg Substitute: Use an amount of water equal to an egg (maybe ~1/4 cup) and mix in tablespoon of ground flax-seed Best Oil: Coconut [...]
When pan-frying or oven-frying potatoes, put on salt at the end. Salt will draw out moisture during cooking and keep the potatoes from crisping. - from Eric Martin while he was cooking delicious breakfast-potatoes.
1 cup flour (I’ve been using white whole wheat) 1 egg ~2tbps cool water Mix flour and egg, adding water until flour is just moistened and sticks together Let rest for 5 minutes Knead the dough for 2 minutes. Or you can do it for 10 minutes; more kneading means better developed gluten and a “smoother” [...]
bq. I have been writing blog postings offline on my commute to and from work but just forget to post them when I get home. Sorry for any delays. !(alignright)http://static.flickr.com/20/68517300_e2619db2fd_m.jpg!:href=http://www.flickr.com/photos/atomicworkshop/68517300/ This last Sunday, Jessica and I headed over to one of my coworker’s homes up in Sommerville to nosh on another turkey (squash lasagna for [...]
