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Canning/Pickling Experiment, Part 1
I’m not entirely sure what inspired this, but I got an itch recently to try to do some canning and/or pickling. It’s one of those cooking/foodie things I’ve been interested in for a while now, and...
View ArticleNotes on Grown-Up Camp and the End of Summer (more or less)
We have returned from just shy of a week at “The Inn” at “The Homestead,” which is up in Glen Arbor, Michigan. Here’s a link to a Flickr set of pictures. Some thoughts more or less as they occurred...
View ArticleOn Pickling and Pizza-ing
School starts again next week (after Labor Day), and I’ve mostly been figuring out the classes I’ll be teaching this coming term, along with a few other miscellaneous new term things. But I thought...
View ArticleHey, that’s my farm!
Well, “my farm” may be a bit of a stretch, but just the other day, someone via Facebook posted this New York Times article about Tantré Farm, “Field Report: Will Work for Food.” Tantré Farm is where...
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What Thanksgiving Gave
Annette and Will and I had a Thanksgiving of just the three of us and at home for the first time in…. heck, I think the first time ever. There was one year quite a while ago where I recall Annette’s...
View ArticleAnother Christmas, more Pepper Nuts (albeit late)
We had a later than usual Pepper Nuts session here at the Krause-Wannamaker house today. We were in Florida for Christmas proper this year, and, because of changes on the Krause side of things at...
View Article#cccc11 recap
This is kind of scattered because I started it over a cup of coffee Monday morning and finished it Wednesday morning before meeting meeting meeting/grading grading grading. I’m super DUPER busy with...
View ArticleWhole Foods is just another grocery store– shocking!
Gawker has published a couple of stories about disgruntled and generally former Whole Foods employees, here and here. The short version is some of these folks are not happy about Whole Foods behavior...
View ArticleDear Ticketmaster et al
Dear Ticketmaster, Tony Bennett, and Deathcab for Cutie; I’m writing about a concert my wife Annette and I attended on August 24 at the Fox Theatre in Detroit, a show that was supposed to have featured...
View ArticleOn Homemade Pizza
Pizza is interesting in that you have connoisseurs who fetishize all aspects of this relatively simple food, and you also have people whose concept of pizza is limited to Dominos or Little Caesars. If...
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On Baking Bread
I baked bread again last weekend. That’s not all that unusual; I don’t think I’ve bought bread since March or April. It kind of came up on Instagram and Facebook because my long time friend and...
View ArticleThe beginning of my basement gardening experiment
View this post on Instagram The basement gardening experiment begins. (BTW, no photo effects; that’s the color of the led grow-lights). A post shared by Steve Krause (@stevendkrause) on Jan 6, 2019 at...
View ArticleRecipe: Salmon and Lentils (w/bonus leftover lentils)
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Steve Krause (@stevendkrause) on Jan 17, 2019 at 5:10pm PST Ingredients: About two cups of dried lentils (preferably French green ones) One big carrot,...
View ArticleRecipe: Spaghetti and Meatballs
Ingredients: Sauce: About a tablespoon of minced garlic 2-3 tablespoons olive oil 28 oz (a “big can”) of crushed tomatoes 16 oz (a “small can,” or if you want more sauce, another “big can”) of diced...
View ArticleCountry White Bread Made with Poolish
The other day, I baked some bread that turned out exceptionally well and I posted a couple of pictures on Instagram (and that also showed up on Facebook): View this post on Instagram A post shared...
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