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Seeking the Perfect Homemade Whole Wheat: Essential Eating’s Sprouted Bread and Rolls (no. 2)

January 11th, 2011 · 22 Comments · Recipes

Pin ItTime for the second installment of “let’s watch the girl who doesn’t know a whit about bread baking try to figure out how to make the perfect loaf!” There were so many excellent comments on last week’s two posts (the introduction and first recipe) that I now have SEVENTEEN bread recipes on my list, [...]

Test Your Grains: More Survey Results

January 7th, 2011 · 9 Comments · Upgraded Nutrition

Pin It Before the holiday break, I shared with you the first set of results from the Test Your Grains Challenge, in which participants committed to eating grains only prepared in a certain style for 7-10 days: all refined grains, all whole grains, soaked, sprouted, sourdough, gluten-free, or no grains were the choices. To recap: [...]

Seeking the Perfect Homemade Whole Wheat: Sweet and Simple (no. 1)

January 5th, 2011 · 50 Comments · Recipes

Pin It Welcome to the inaugural recipe in the Seeking the Perfect Homemade Whole Wheat Bread series here at Kitchen Stewardship! The first bread recipe I’m going to share with you is one that I fiddled with in December, testing it a number of different ways to find out how flexible it was. I still [...]

Introducing Seeking the Perfect Homemade Whole Wheat Bread

January 4th, 2011 · 70 Comments · Recipes

Pin It My sourdough starter may suffer for this, but I’ve been testing out yeasted breads for you all lately. I’ve got a number of recipes up my sleeve and more to come, and only a few loaves that have turned out concave. It is my fervent goal to find the perfect homemade whole wheat [...]

Point/Counterpoint on “Whole Grains Cause Cavities?”

December 16th, 2010 · 36 Comments · Science of Nutrition

Pin It It may have been a bit ambitious to try to get my to-do list checked off today. Between 3:00 and dinner, I made 4 double batches of power bars from Healthy Snacks to Go, some for gifts and some for travel snacks, a batch of lacto-fermented homemade mayo, plus dinner itself, which was [...]

Monday Mission: Watch Your White Flour

December 13th, 2010 · 32 Comments · Monday Missions

Pin It…or not. Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to watch your white flour intake this week. Either watch it sit on the plate, or watch it go in your mouth. Your choice. Impact Ratings: ??? Level of Commitment: Baby Steps 3 Reasons to Eat Less White Flour The healthy parts of the [...]

Whole Foods for the Holidays: Breads

November 9th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Recipes

Pin ItAs you might imagine, we haven’t done much in the way of breads in the past 6 weeks at our house. (Why?) By much, of course, I mean zero. The only flour-based products I’ve baked have been sourdough crackers and homemade tortillas. Diana at a Little Bit of Spain in Iowa is hosting the [...]