It’s pretty simple: you start with some wheat, put it through a grinder, and collect the flour in a bowl. I used the grain mill attachment for the Kitchen Aid mixer.

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…i.e., crêpe cake with apples and almonds. I made this as a dessert for my mom’s birthday, following a big, hearty beef bourguignon.

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Inspired by the recipe from Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and prepared for my mom’s birthday.

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Tasty homemade potato chips!

Ingredients:

6 potatoes
Salt
Pepper
Oil (2 to 6 cups, depending on the size of your skillet)

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By way of inauguration, here’s a classic piece of foodblogging:

Like a book review in the New Yorker, this restaurant review made me want to burn something. I disliked Amanda Hesser by the second sentence when she used the phrase “olfactory amuse-bouche”. By the end of the piece I wanted to grab her and make her wear clothes from Old Navy and eat Big Macs for the rest of her life.

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In the next sentence, you tell me that you are “reveling” over some ginger rice. I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you weren’t folk dancing round the table, here. It’s rice and it tastes great. You can say that, you know. It’s allowed. You don’t have to thumb that thesaurus quite so hard, girl.

Full post here.

Oatmeal/dried cranberries/plenty-of-butter. Hard to go wrong.