Baker to the core, gluten might be my best friend. Hand in hand, we skipped through bread hills on the regular. Even during the vegan days, gluten was a food source shaped into lumpy chewy chunks called Seiten and dried chips of TVP (texturized vegetable protein) were stirred into soups and stews. All those chewy [...]
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Pancakes, A Happy Place
Pancakes Of Plenty Growing up, making pancakes meant that we got a box, stirred in milk and eggs with a big spoon and plopped the dough haphazardly onto a skillet. Every little dough bit cooked wether a drippy dot or a pool of batter. Cooked droplets of batter looked more like spetzle than pancakes but [...]
The Scones of My Life
Scones. People like them more than muffins. I did a study at the Bed and Breakfast, and can say that people want the scones; not the muffins. Alright, all you muffin lovers out there who are now saying "No" please understand this fact, and feel free to write me a loving piece debating the finer [...]
Mother Muffin
No, this is not about my mother making muffins, though she did let us make the ones in the box with the can of blueberries very often as children. Many times we would not put the berries in and make, well, cake muffins. And I would happily eat four or more without care. Time changed [...]
