Category: Recipes

  • Crispy Maple Glazed Brussels

    Crispy Maple Glazed Brussels

    …or “How to get your kid to eat 25 tiny cabbages” This is a pretty simple recipe, with one fallible quality: you need 2 pans. Overcrowding will retain too much moisture close to the sprouts, and water is the enemy of crispiness. So either do two batches or use two pans. Trust.

  • Stuffed Cabbage

    Stuffed Cabbage

    Yum yum. Many tins for the freezer Cook 2 cups of rice, then cool. Sautée in butter: 3 grated carrots, 3 minced onion, 6 cloves crushed garlic, chopped Asian greens, then cool. Assemble filling by mixing 2lbs ground beef, the sautéed stuff, the cooked rice, 2 eggs, 2 cups of tomato sauce, chopped fresh tomato,…

  • Maple Peanut Butter Dip

    Maple Peanut Butter Dip

  • Sourdough Schedule

    Sourdough Schedule

    A one-page sample sourdough routine for 2 loaves using a close cast iron pot for baking in. I adapted it from Emma Christensen’s interpretation of Chad Robertson‘s recipe in Tartine Book No. 3. Here is the printable pdf file: AshtasSourdoughSchedule  

  • How to benefit from a gluten free diet and still eat bread

    How to benefit from a gluten free diet and still eat bread

    A dear friend recently commented on a picture of my sourdough routine and said “I miss bread.” I felt exactly the same way after half a year of being gluten free. I went without bread or breaded things, or things made with wheat for months.  My body loved it and I felt a massive difference.…

  • Spoon Tuna

    Mix altogether 1 spoon miso paste 2 spoons mayo 3-4 spoons yogurt 1 can/bottled/cooked fish (like tuna) a bunch of chopped spring onions, chives, green onion, whatever