How to Bake Kale Chips
I stumbled onto this recipe a few months ago: chips or crisps made out of kale. The leafy superfood is, well, super. Vitamins, good things, protein, and blah blah blah. Read this for more information about the crazy goodness that is kale. More importantly, it bakes up to a very crispy-crunchy snack with no gluten or starch. Brilliant. 1. Wash and dry oodles of kale. Really dry. 2. Chop the leaves off the hard stem and try to keep the leaves in fairly medium-large pieces. 3. Toss with olive oil and sea salt. Alternatives: add lemon juice, garlic powdered or minced, or...
Read MoreFailing at Fondue
The Daily Mail has published an article about yet another retro-living woman who has spent a week pretending to live with the resource limitations of another era. We’ve seen women of the 1930s and 1940s, and couples of the 1950s… today, however, we are graced with the attempt by one woman to live in the 1970s of Britain. Not the full range of retro elements, mind you — no bell-bottomed leisure suits for her! Just the cooking. The woman in question bemoans the loss of her microwave, her bread maker, her coffee maker, her electric scales… and even her food...
Read MoreHow to Bake Monkey Bread
A ridiculous amount of time has been spent baking this week. Breads with and without yeast (with is superior, apparently), plain breads, flavored breads, sweet breads.
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I vote as a libertarian constitutionalist influenced by Hayek and Burke, and I think as an anarchist guided by the biblical principles of liberty. My government is strictly bound by the U.S. Constitution. I have fenced foil in a diaper-suit and run for political office in a skirt-suit, but my shoes were always fabulous. Both dreadful politics and inspiring design are likely to make me teary. and yes. I’m a tshirt ninja.
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