A Bed for Olivia
Mark Bronkalla With another child on the way, my grand-daughter Olivia will need to give up her old crib / bed for the new child in a few months. So it is…
Chicken Pot Pie
Teal really like chicken pot pies. However, I find them to be typically bland, pasty and just not worth the calories. So on a cold, dreary late fall day, Teal…
Spent Grain Sourdough
With a little planning ahead a brewing day can also be a baking day. I am doing extract brewing and the spent specialty grains are perfect for baking. The cooked…
Home Made Pastrami
Why settle for pre-packaged pastrami when you can easily make your own with superior flavor, lower sodium and no strange preservatives? This is another slow food recipe. Elapsed time is…
Down the rabbit hole of sour beer
Over time I have had a few sour beers, but I had not done much exploration of the genre. After the success of the Backyard Berry Sour a.k.a. Pink Beer,…
Backyard Berry Sour a.k.a Pink Beer
My first experiment with sour beers was a kettle soured beer with fruit. It proved to be very popular and resulted in another 2 batches being made this past summer.…
Pliny Plus IIPA
Like many of my brews this started with a kit – Northern Brewer Plinian Legacy. This is a “clone” of the impossible to find in Wisconsin, Russian River Pliny The…
More Cowboy Candy
We made our last batch of Cowboy Candy 2 years ago and are down to two 1/2 pints and one pint being left. This impending shortage along with the first…
First floor tile project part 3
So we waited a week after grouting for the clean up. In the meantime, the thresholds for the front door and garage door needed to be sanded, stained and varnished.…
First floor tile project part 2
As I mentioned previously, we had gotten notice that the tile was ready earlier than expected. Tile shop also provides the order weight (to 3 decimal places) so we went…