Lisa Zahn

I got this recipe from a little booklet called A Short Course with King Arthur Flour in Baking with Yeast . It was published in 1985 and revised in 1989, and I probably got it around then, in college where I do remember first baking this. I don't remember where or how I got it, but maybe mail-order through the King Arthur Flour company. Its not available online anywhere, but you can go to http://www.kingarthurflour.com/ for more info. and their cookbook, plus good online recipes. The great thing about the booklet I have is it gives all sorts of tips and instructions on proofing the yeast, kneading and how long to do it, how to know if the bread is done, etc. I will try to give some of these tips (in italics ) in the recipe. So here goes... King Arthur's Stone-Ground Whole Wheat Bread (50% whole wheat, 50% unbleached flours) From the introduction: "Whole wheat bread will not rise as high as white bread. As gluten strands are developing through kneading, the tiny pieces of...

It's hard to keep this blog up, when all I want to do is be outside in June. And I have been, mostly, outside. But then it poured rain all day yesterday and still I didn't get to this. Instead, Elijah and I went to Barnes and Noble, then to one of St. Cloud's two game shops for another fancy yo-yo he bought with allowance money (I'm trying to get him to let me videotape him doing yo-yo tricks for the blog--the kid is amazing !--but also a bit shy), then to the library real quick. Then I had a headache so all afternoon I laid in bed reading one of my new library books ( Captivating by John and Stasi Eldredge--a surprisingly good book about the desires of a woman's heart, surprising because it has a Christian viewpoint which mostly turns me off these days, but it is an open-minded Christian perspective in which they even quote Bob Dylan and refer often to Jane Austen novels!). But here it is today. The sun is shining and the temp. is about 72 degrees F. It doesn...

Okay, it's already time to do this...(just so my yahoo food storage group can check up on me!) 1. Planted: pole beans, watermelons, jack-o-lantern pumpkins, cucumbers, delicata squash, and a few flowers for sanity's/spirit's sake 2. Harvested: garlic chives, other herbs as needed (nothing else ready) 3. Preserved: nothing 4. Stored: nothing since Tuesday 5. Prepped/Managed: I'm putting this in the same category since I can never tell the difference. I did organize all my canning jars. I DO NOT need anymore canning jars, ever, thank you very much. Oh, except 1/2 pint jars for jam since I give many of those away. I always need lids since they can't be reused, but not jars. I have at least 150 canning jars, and they're now on shelves all together in the basement, organized by type. Thank goodness. It's always hard to keep up with this since we're always using them. There are only two on my kitchen counter needing to be put away right now, and that's a g...