How to turn a waste product into a chef-quality appetizer: I make sourdough bread, but the starter multiples. Most people tell you to throw it out. I feel bad about that, because it’s a lot of waste. These days, I turn it into an appetizer. I call it a...
These might very well be the best pancakes in the world. It’s my recipe, probably stolen in my twenties, but I changed it over the years to make it my own. I used to work in a diner, so I have an unnatural love for breakfast twenty-four hours a day. It’s...
Prices are rising. I’ve felt it for a while. We see some official numbers, but none of the official numbers measure the things that I actually buy. To figure it out, I created “the chicken grain report.” I measure other things, too, like gas, the...
I went shopping right before the pandemic. Things looked good. There was bread and milk. Less than a week later, lines wrapped around the store and shelves were empty. People rushed the fork lift guy for water. They cleaned out the toilet paper aisle–then bought...
This week: I did some canning and also cleaned out the pantry. I know what foods need to be used up… and there are a lot. So, I’ll focus on using those ingredients over the next few weeks. BREAKFAST Your choice of the following: chef-style eggs (boiled,...
