Posted by Sheryl Kirby in blog-a-log, news and media, on the web on September 7, 2007 at 8:40 pm
Living in an era when so many items are disallowed in carry-on luggage when flying, it's still a bit surprising that someone thought to include sour dough bread starter. Which is why the folks from Blog From Our Kitchen put theirs in their checked luggage during a recent flight to BC. Because who travels without their own starter? Still, given the reaction the goopy stuff had to... something - air pressure, maybe - it's probably for the best.
At Do You Know the Muffin Man?, Eric finds a perfect way to deal with extra pears as they become overly abundant - pear crisp!
Gina Mallet's got an interesting piece about how the bio-fuel industry is going to affect the price of just about everything we eat that is corn-based, which is an awful lot of stuff; soda pop, baked goods, and oh, yeah, meat.
Brilynn of Jumbo Empanadas whips up a batch of her namesake (Empanadas, not Brilynns) to mark the beginning of fall and heading back to school.
Meanwhile, Catherine of Sugar and Ink discovers just exactly what you can "sneak" in to the Rogers Centre if you want something other than greasy pizza and over-priced beer. Which really makes me wonder why all those people who went to see the Dalai Lama a couple of years ago were doing eat pizza and not homemade momos.
And for anyone who's ever dealt with surly service staff (or the guy at Bulldog Coffee who, based on everything I've ever read about him, is never anything except surly) Marusya of Recipes For Trouble, recounts her very last visit ever to the aforementioned surly coffee shop.
