Author Archives: Ian Kitterman

Instant noodles can be grown up food too

So here how to make a delicious, nutritious, and cheap meal in under 6 minutes. Ingredients: Pack of stir fry veggies (if fresh stir fry veggies aren’t available, I like green onions, garlic, red onions, red peppers, mung bean sprouts, broccolini, sugar snap peas/ or green beans, mini-corn is good to, basically any collection of [...]

Super Hydrated Doughs, Focaccia, and yum

So I have recently been experimenting with some higher hydrated doughs.  Normally the breads I make are somewhere around 60%-70% hydration. This mean there is 60% of water to flour.  For example in a 500 gram loaf I would have 310 grams of flour and 185 grams of water.  The texture of a 60% hydrated [...]

Focaccia and Steak

Tried my hand at focaccia for the first time.  This is a bread I have been wanting to make for a long time.  Tried it twice, the first one I didn’t let rise long enough but was tasty so did it again and this one was fantastic.  Used this recipe with some slight changes (see [...]

Blessed are the cheesemakers

So Bekah and I have started our hands at cheese making.  These pictures are an assortment of our first and second try.  But either way both cheeses ended up being delicious.  (Bekah’s was a more accurate representation of mozzarella though.)  We used this instructable http://www.instructables.com/id/Great-Mozzarella-Cheese/ First added the citric acid and then rennet. Then you [...]