This week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast we bend the ear of Guy Frenkel, LA's own sourdough mad scientist. His popular Instagram feed shares picture-perfect, wildly-colored loaves of bread made from ancient grains.
Roe Sie fell in love with milling his own grains after he fell down the homesteading rabbit hole. His passion manifested into The King's Roost, a homesteading shop, grain mill, and classroom on Sunset Blvd. in Los Angeles, CA.
Winter is the time for baking, so it's only fitting that Chronicle Books released Heritage Baking by Ellen King just in time for holiday festivities. What's better than breads and…
On a sleepy Saturday morning in early October, I drove to Fillmore, CA to meet up with a gaggle of sourdough bread bakers. Our gathering place: Roan Mills Bakery. Why?…
Sourdough bread is addictive. Once you learn how to make it you want to perfect it. You gain weight testing loaf after loaf, but it's worth every pound. Because bread…
Nothing grows outside in Iceland in the winter. The land is blanketed with snow and scarcely a twig is visible for miles. Lava rock punches through the landscape and geysers…
Homesteader nerd-alert: Los Angeles Bread Bakers held a Meetup at the King's Roost where Paul LeBeau of Wolfgang Mock was slated to be the guest speaker. He'd also raffle off…
One benefit of taking a long airplane trip is that a tremendous amount of reading is accomplished. During my trip to Italy - land of wonderful food and bread - I read Jeff Hertzberg and Zoë
Francois's book, Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day. It has changed the way I think about making bread.
Confession: I have a bread machine, and while I learned how to make bread the old fashioned way prior to getting the bread machine (*cringe* - 20 years ago), I must admit that ...
There are some years that I don't plant zucchini because I'm still sick of it from the year before. This was not one of those years. Admittedly, summer squash doesn't hold my interest as long as
winter squash is around, but I wanted to try a new variety of summer squash. But wait...
First let's clarify something. Summer squash grows in the summer. Winter squash... grows in the summer. The difference is in the storage. Summer squash has to be consumed during the summer,
but winter squash stores through the winter (think pumpkins, ...