We were driving from somewhere in Kansas to somewhere else in Kansas. Please forgive me, Kansas is both very big and very flat. It really doesn’t matter where we were, only that we were somewhere other than my house. When I asked her what she wanted for dinner, she was uncharacteristically decisive. “Ribs!”, she said….
Archives for November 2016
Senbei: Japanese Rice Crackers (the good ones)
Senbei are Japanese crackers made from glutinous rice flour, also known as sweet rice flour. They are different from Western crackers in that they pack an extra punch of crispiness and taste. They also come in many flavors (soy sauce, wasabi, dried shrimp, etc), thicknesses and levels of crunchiness. Many of these are savory, but…
Bread done right (or kind of right)
Porsches are to cars, as the German-made Romertopf is to terra-cotta cooking vessels. They’re that good. Philip sent me one (Romertopf, not a Porsche) because as a non-baker, he had to listen to me on the phone whine about my bread being dry. I guess it finally got to him, so one came in via…