http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Dennis+Weaver Food and Drinks Dennis Weaver Tue, 08 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=149372&ca=Food+and+Drinks It’s fun to color Easter eggs. Pink and yellow and lavender eggs are part of the Easter tradition. And of course, kids love colors. Learn the proper way to color eggs plus learn how to boil an egg and avoid the green on the yolk. 1. Choose fresh eggs free from cracks. 2. Commercial egg producers coa... Food and Drinks Dennis Weaver Tue, 08 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=149369&ca=Food+and+Drinks The Orange Family The familiar oranges are the most popular of our citrus fruits. They are nutritional, versatile, and keep well. Popular varieties include Valencia, navel, temple, and blood oranges. The navel orange is best as an eating orange since its sweet pulp tends to turn a little bitter when... Food and Drinks Dennis Weaver Tue, 08 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=149370&ca=Food+and+Drinks Remember when an ice cream scoop was—well, an ice cream scoop. An old-fashioned ice cream scoop still gets the job done, especially if it has a nice heft and balance and is long enough to get some leverage. And the traditional spring action, quick-release ice cream scoops are hard to beat if they ar... Cooking Dennis Weaver Sat, 10 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=131908&ca=Cooking So you’ve never baked bread before. It’s not as hard as you might imagine. In fact, understand a few basic techniques and you’ll soon be baking bread that you’ll be proud of. Just carefully follow the instructions found in these basic directions. Preparation The most basic bread is made with flour,... Cooking Dennis Weaver Fri, 09 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=131903&ca=Cooking Repeatedly we hear that dough conditioners are “magical”. “My loaves are so much bigger and lighter now.” “My dough is so much easier to work with.” Can dough conditioners really be that good? Dough conditioners can make quite a difference, even making a good bread great. But dough conditioners are... Cooking Dennis Weaver Fri, 09 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=131914&ca=Cooking How many different kinds of flour are there? We just opened a commercial flour catalog and counted 28. These were flours that were available from one mill for the Western United States. At last count, we had 16 on hand for our test kitchen. Matching the flour to the product that you are baking is on... Cooking Dennis Weaver Fri, 09 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=131915&ca=Cooking Gluten is made of two proteins found in wheat flour and gives bread its structure, strength, and texture. The gluten makes the bread. Without these marvelous little proteins, bread would not be bread. It also explains why it is so hard to make bread from rice, potato, rye, or oat flour and why wheat... Food and Drinks Dennis Weaver Mon, 05 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=123152&ca=Food+and+Drinks You make these crackers just like sugar cookies except that you don’t have to decorate them. Roll out the dough, cut them into rounds or shapes, and place them on the baking sheet. For this unusual cracker, you grind roll oats in a food processor or blender—two cups coarse ground oat flour for one c... Food and Drinks Dennis Weaver Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=122013&ca=Food+and+Drinks Baking cookies seems to fill the house with a sense of well being and peace. Perhaps it is the smell of butter, vanilla, and spices emanating from the hot oven. Maybe it is the love and caring attention that is evident in cookies. Home, love, and cookies seem to go together. Consider refrigerator, o... Cooking Dennis Weaver Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=122019&ca=Cooking Are my breads, cookies, or cakes baked and ready to come out of the oven yet? The ability to tell when products are baked seems to cause more consternation than almost any other phase of baking. And of course, it is important. Over baked cookies are dry and hard; under baked bread is soggy. But you...