My kids are really into baked potatoes. Well, actually, mashed potatoes is what they like, but baked potatoes are fine because they’re easy to mash. Actually, I’m not so sure they even like the potato part. Like me, they seem to prefer all the stuff that one traditionally puts onto the baked potato. Sour cream,…
Month: April 2011
Bagels
Ok, so I don’t live in NYC, or anywhere near there. I’ve never had a “real” New York bagel. However, I can sure tell you that those things you get in the plastic bag at the grocery store in the refrigerator section that are called bagels, aren’t. I’ve tried several times to produce a good…
Slow Rise Spent Grain Bread
My previous post described a quick bread recipe using some spent grains leftover from beer brewing. Here’s a slightly more involved recipe for a slow-rise bread that also incorporates spent grains. I’ve been doing a lot of slower rise yeast breads over the past few years. The concepts that Jim Lahey pioneered with his no-knead…
Baking with Spent Grains
I’ve been doing some beer brewing recently – in the past I’ve had ok luck using malt extracts, both dry or liquid. But this Christmas I got a partial-mash kit as a gift, so I thought I’d give it a try. Pretty simple to do, but in the end I wound up with about 4…