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  • Hannah’s bread, The Splendid Table
    For Hanna’s sourdough-bread recipe follow the link: https://www.splendidtable.org/recipes/sourdough-bread
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  • Wood-fired oven recipes: Hameen Eggs
    I don’t normally get excited about hard-boiled eggs, but these aren’t your normal fare. The color alone gives them a quality like deeply polished mahogany; the flavor is nutty and sweet; the texture of the white is firmer, while the yolk is softer. The trick is simply to boil them gently with onion skins, overnight,… Read more: Wood-fired oven recipes: Hameen Eggs
  • We The People vs The Western Diet
    I just finished reading In Defense of Food, by Michael Pollan. Part of my pleasure in reading it was remembering my grandmother, Evelyn Sayre Norton, and meals at her table — the eggs she fried in bacon grease, the lamb fat she savored, and the produce she brought back from local farmers for whom she… Read more: We The People vs The Western Diet
  • wheat harvest
    boys, their cousins (and Uncle) from England all helping — for a few minutes, at least. Won’t know yields until I get the grain threshed and winnowed. It looks better than the past few efforts, but still not the 300 pounds I was aiming for when I fenced off the 3,000 sq. ft.

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