/2 cups spelt flour (I’ve also used buckwheat mixed in) 2 TBS olive oil 1 TBS salt Dissolve yeast in the water, then mix in sweetener. While yeast is active, mix in 1st cup of flour and then salt and any additional spices (see...

likewise, you can find it in the freezer at the key food on washington ave/lincoln pl. easier yet, there’s a quick-fix pizza dough that’ll serve two—i make it once a week at least: mix 1 tsp of active yeast and 1...

I would think that carting around charcoal and an ashy hibachi would not be so fun, but to answer your question, yes, you can bake/roast a potato on a hibachi (poke holes in the potato and wrap it in foil). You can also do my...

Charcoal isn’t at the top of my food preferences. In fact, I’ve only ingested it in the activated form to deal with tummy troubles. :)

ALthough you prefer no asian, Little Sheep in Monterey Park has a great lamb hotpot that you probably don’t make at home. And if you’re not korean, you might consider a charcoal korean bbq. you can search the board or...

an active vinegar culture. The latest twist has been to incorporate some toasted French Oak to the process, which helped incredibly to boost the complexity of the finished product, to be eventually followed by acquiring an oak...

, and yet left the place with less character than it had before. I wasn’t a regular at The Nog, so I don’t know if there was any active resistance.

Net and the Beach House), check out my post on a Chicago dining site: lthforum.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=23316. Another must on St. Kitts is Sprat Net. They have the best ribs in the world (cooked slowly over charcoal, but not...

Once more the picnic gods gave us a perfect day in an idyllic setting in Laurel park, with truly amazing food (in vast quantities!), fun activities and, of course, wonderful company. Attendance by about 65 hounds was about the...

of activated charcoal to a glass carboy of white wine with excessive browning from phenolics and it becomes lighter and brighter immediately due to the polarity difference between the carbon and the color phenols. To use a...

The over-the-counter anti-hangover pill is called Chaser Plus; it includes activated charcoal and calcium carbonate. I’ve found it is useful for fending off red wine hangovers (which I find the most insufferable), but not...

The weekly Friday Pig Roast at the sadly defunct Norman’s was always my favorite weekend activity, so when I heard that Bin 8945 would be holding a Caja China Pig Roast on Sundays I secured the first available res I could...

Has anyone tried the new Sumiya Yakitori place on Moorpark in SJ? They claim to import the charcoal from Japan and use only Jidori chicken. A acquiantance of mine who is a Japanese gourmet went there and said it was pretty good...

recommended) that are cheap but commercially charcoal filtered. The idea of home filtering scares me a bit: where does one get activated charcoal? I know you can’t use briquettes.

Hi... Soot Bull Jeep is often recommended here, for their seminal use of real charcoal in their Korean bbq, making for equal parts flavorsome, seared tasty flesh and eye-watering plumes of wafting smoke; as i’ve said...