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The DIY Kitchen: Jacques Pepin’s Tibetan Flatbread

By kristen | Published: August 19, 2010
Last February, holed up in a Montauk hotel, I happened to catch an old episode of Jacques Pepin’s cooking show in which he made this great Tibetan flatbread. The process is remarkably quick and easy: mix flour, water, oil and baking powder and then fry in a pan for under 20 minutes. Without yeast or [...]
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The DIY Kitchen: Lefse, aka Norwegian Potato Flat Bread

By kristen | Published: April 22, 2010
Lefse is a great Norwegian flat bread made from potatoes. Essentially, it’s mashed potatoes with flour added in to form a dough and it’s incredibly simple and delicious, though requires a lot of standing over a stove and flipping. This recipe comes to you straight from my family cookbook — a really cute little typewriter-typed thing [...]
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Whey and Spent-Grain Bread

By kristen | Published: April 7, 2010
For whatever reason wasting food has always been incredibly annoying to me. I monitor the contents of our fridge intensely to make sure nothing goes bad, and if, somehow something does, I’ll usually still eat it anyway. So naturally, ever since Brian and I have been cheese and beer making like crazy, I’ve scoured the vast [...]
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The DIY Kitchen: Easy-As-Pie Pita

By kristen | Published: March 8, 2010
I’ll admit it, I have been on a bit of a baking spree lately. But could anything possibly feel as good as the time-honored tradition of mixing yeast, flour and water? This recipe is a great recipe for novice bakers from Mark Bittman’s How to Cook Everything Vegetarian (my personal Bible). The rise time is short [...]
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The DIY Kitchen: No-knead bread

By kristen | Published: March 4, 2010
If you’re going to screw up bread, it’s most likely going to be in the kneading. So why knead when there’s no need? I’m guessing that’s exactly what went through  Sullivan Street Bakery bread master Jim Lahey’s head when he decided to pen, “My bread,” his revolutionary cookbook of no knead breads. This technique will [...]
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SCRATCHbread temporarily on hold

By kristen | Published: February 24, 2010
Okay, so first off, the confession: I have still yet to try the handiwork of Matthew Tilden , the one-man magic act behind SCRATCHbread, That said, sampling Tilden’s raved about Sourdough boules just got a hell of a lot harder for sinners like myself – the renegade baker recently lost his baking space, the brick-over of [...]
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