Chips (aka crisps in the UK and Ireland) are really unhealthy. You know what that means. That means, when you do them, you gotta do them right, see? Which means the chips have to be worth it. And Lord liftin’, these be worth it. These Guinness Potato Chips are hand-crafted; each bag even indicates…
Archives for March 2014
Skinny French Bread (Pain Epi / Wheat stalk bread)
This crispy bread is delicious and dead easy to make. You let the bread machine mix up a batch of dough, and store the dough for up to 14 days in the fridge in a sealed plastic container. Then, on the days when you want some bread, you cut off a small portion of the…
Two-level microwave oven cooking
Over the years, I had found myself staring at the empty vertical space inside a microwave oven, and often wishing that somehow a second dish or plate could be making use of that wasted upper space… say, oatmeal happening below while bacon is cooking above. Or, heating up two plates of food at once. I’d…
Hunting for a new microwave
The most recent microwave oven died two weeks ago. That officially made it three microwaves that I’ve gone through. Microwave No. (1), was a hand-me-down in the early 1990s. It was a big ole Panasonic dating from the mid 1980s — somewhere between 1.6 and 2 ish cubic feet (45 to 56 L), I’d…