Now to figure out how to thresh it: mortar and pestle? Wrapping it in a tarp and backing over it with my car a couple of times? The trials and tribulations of the urban wheat farmer š I will tell you, though, even cutting my tiny “field” was a decent amount of work. Mad respectContinue reading “Operation Baguette: Harvest Time!”
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Update on Operation Baguette
It’s coming along nicely!
ESC #37 and #38 ft. Exploding Xurros!
I mean, it was high time for Experimental Supper Club to have a spectacular failure, amiright? The good news is no one got hurt. The bad news is it took me the better part of a day to wash my kitchen down from ceiling to floor (including the dogs). We had a vaguely Spanish/Portuguese themeContinue reading “ESC #37 and #38 ft. Exploding Xurros!”
Operation Baguette
Last year, I think a bird must have pooped out a wheat berry in the path right *next* to my garden beds (not *in* them for some reason), and against all odds, like a Biblical parable, it sprang up and bore fruit. My mama raised me right enough that I know a head of wheatContinue reading “Operation Baguette”
ESC #36
I ran out of Irish recipes in the old Try file, so for St Patrickās Day this year, we did a Breton-inspired menu: keeping it in the Celtic family at leastā¦. The Kig Ha Farz wasā¦interesting. I think this recipe from David Lebovitz would have yielded a lighter and fluffier āfarzā or buckwheat dumpling. YouContinue reading “ESC #36”
ESC #35
This turned out to be a pretty pioneer-y menu featuring the kinds of things that Western settlers would have have in their cellars this time of year: venison, apples, cabbage, onions, carrots, etc. And it was really one of our best menus in terms of the way it all came together. The bang-to-buck ratio onContinue reading “ESC #35”
ESC #34: Groundhog’s/Valentine’s Day
This started out as a Groundhog’s Day menu with as much chocolate in it as possible from the recipes in my Try file–because my sister has decided that Groundhog’s Day is the chocolate holiday, and who am I to argue with solid logic? But we had to postpone, and it ended up being Valentine’s DayContinue reading “ESC #34: Groundhog’s/Valentine’s Day”
ESC #33: Year of the Snake
I love any excuse to pull out Mr. Dragon: just please donāt tell him he cosplayed as a snake this year (made possible by his lack of any legs)ā¦. We pulled a selection of dim-sum-adjacent recipes from my Try file for a Lunar New Year brunch. I think the youtiao were the biggest hit b/cContinue reading “ESC #33: Year of the Snake”
Catching up with ESC: 30-32
Just focus on the cute olive penguins and ignore how far behind I got with documenting theseā¦. The penguins were from #31: Tree-hunting Edition, and they werenāt actually experimentalāIāve made them before. I donāt remember where I got the recipe/idea (you can basically see how to make them). Iām going to go out on aContinue reading “Catching up with ESC: 30-32”
Colonial Thanksgiving
I love this woman’s channel: she cooks like it’s 1799, with zero commentary. This Thanksgiving dinner looks pretty legit, and you know I’m a sucker for live-fire cooking. Happy Thanksgiving! youtube.com/watch
The Rookery 