My adventure with sourdough started a few months ago when I received two different starters from Nosey Parker, the tangy Humboldt County and the more buttery Columbia River strain.
As a child, my interest with cooking started with baking, mostly cookies and cakes. For some reason – perhaps because I don’t remember anyone in my family [...]

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I correspond with several of my old friends from high school, and I mentioned to one of them that I have not been able to manage a good, flaky pie crust. She sent me this recipe, and I’ll post it here for all of you who are not pie crust mavens. Thanks Bonnie!

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Eva Janca’s Slovak Chicken, not your usual chicken paprikash!

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With all the fancy bread recipes available on the Internet, and the glorious pictures we can find with a Google image search, I still prefer a simpler, more basic bread recipe. I’ve found a number of recipes, including Erma Rombauer’s version from an old copy of Joy of Cooking, circa 1975. The one I’ve settled [...]

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