of Sin Dawgs and fresh-ground whole wheat flour!

The other day, I picked up some freshly ground red-fife flour from Cliff Leir at Fol Epi bakery.  I’ve been using the Red Fife flour from SaltSpring Mills and been quite happy with it, BUT I found out that Cliff is using grain from the same organic farmer in Saskatchewan AND, its milled fresh the same [...]

Slightly healthy buttertarts

I’m not sure if its the weather, or what, but I’ve been craving buttertarts for the past few days.  After a couple of days of trying to ignore it, I figured I would go ahead and make them — justifying it by making the crust with whole grain flour.

I may have blogged before about the SaltSpring [...]

“I’m just goofin’ around, that’s all!”

Just like the 22-Minutes version of Babe Bennett  (having some time this afternoon) I decided to goof around a bit … with teff!

I was interested in coming up with an alternative bread formulation that was rice-based, but still had plenty of spring to it.  My usual formulations start with a base of garfava flour, millet, tapioca [...]

I may never buy bagels again!

I recently got a copy of Peter Reinhart’s Whole Grain Breads.  For those who are bread-obsessed, it is a great book that picks up where he left off with the Bread Bakers Apprentice, full of recipes with whole-grain goodness!

I’ve made a couple of loaves of the basic whole wheat boule, but was hankering for something a [...]

Let the fermentation fest continue with Injera!

Having made a wild yeast starter to try some of the breads in the new Peter Reinhart book Whole Grain Breads, I had a batch of starter just itching to foment some action!

Thumbing through the book, there is a section for some flatbreads and crackers, and I noticed a recipe for Injera, the Ethiopian flatbread that [...]