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Challah!

December 18th, 2011 · No Comments · Food

I think this is one of the best proofings I’ve had with Challah to date.  I cheat a little, as my new awesome stove has a ‘proof’ button that keeps the rising dough at a constant, slightly elevated temperature.  If only the oven had a ‘steam’ cycle, but alas I’ll have to stick with the [...]

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The N.Y. Times on pizza dough

May 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Food

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/19/dining/19pizza.html?pagewanted=1 The best part of the article comes at the very end: “Someday, you might build a wood-burning oven — right after you start making your own vinegar, raising honeybees and churning butter with cream from cows you milk. Until then, you can make pizzeria-quality pizza with the perfectly normal oven in your kitchen.” The [...]

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Pizza notebook – quick tip for the dough.

January 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Food

(this mainly applies to my home oven baked smaller pizzas but might be applicable to many others – and as always, this is an evolving process) After you make your dough, let it stay in the fridge to develop flavor for 2-3 days.  The 24 hour period is a minimum, but 2-3 days is optimal [...]

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Couple updates…

August 10th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized

It has been a busy couple of weeks.  Took a trip to Buffalo for a family reunion and whatnot.  Here are a couple of pics of recent activities.  The first off is G’s beaded barrettes.  She wants to sell these things in Etsy or something at some point.  I think it’s a good start!  Here [...]

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