Category: cooking

  • Mark I Bread Prototype

    My first attempt in recent memory at cooking one type of what may be the world’s oldest food: bread! Lessons learned: Cooking bread with olive oil maybe works. At first the bread tasted strange, but by the next day it tasted quite good. I think next time I’ll try using butter or vegetable oil to see…

  • A Goal Gastronomical

    Having just eaten lunch at Kneaders I was struck with a really cool idea: I’m going to make my own Kneaders-like meal, doing as much from scratch as is reasonable. This would include the following: The Sandwich Vegetables: grow the lettuce, tomatoes, herbs, onions, sprouts, etc. Bread: not milling my own wheat or anything, but…

  • Dinner on 19 October 2009

    Tonight for my dinner group I cooked an assortment of dishes: 1. Greek-inspired beef. I bought several pounds of roast for something like 5 dollars, sliced it into long strips, and cooked it along with fresh parsley, tomatoes, fresh spinach, red wine vinegar, soy sauce, tomato paste, a little bit of hot hungarian paprika (which…