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#title Guess You Gotta Eat

* Bread

** Slavery

Rather than buy yeast I decided to be hardcore and enslave wild yeast
in a jar. It is actually [[http://www.io.com/~sjohn/sour.htm][pretty damn easy]]. I used the method mentioned
in the former link, but added a bit of *science* (or--I've kept a beer
yeast starter before). I used my giant bottle of Iodophor to sanitize
the jar in which the yeast were to live (just to kill any natives; I
rinsed the jar afterward with tap water and didn't sanitize any
utensils), made sure the water used for feeding was at about 90°F, and
fed the starter a tablespoon of dry malt extract (maltose being to
yeast what fast food is to a fat American) and a quarter teaspoon of
lemon juice (just to slightly acidify the initial mix and make the
yeasties new home a bit more hospitable to only them at first) for the
first two days. This resulted in a bubbly and happy starter on the
third day, made interesting bread on the fourth, and was successfully
cloned for someone else on the fifth!

Just remember to measure the volume of the original mixture and write
that down so you can easily substitute it into recipes (mine worked
out to ⅔ cup of starter from ½ cup of flour and water, but flour
varies in absorbency rabble blah moo etc.).

** Pita

 - [[Pita]] (the base for all of the others)
 - [[Olive Pita]]
 - [[Sun Dried Tomato Pita]]

** Normal Bread

 - [[Sourdough Rye]]

* Rice and Whatnot

 - [[http://www.superluminal.com/cookbook/pilaf_chelou.html][Chelou]] (I usually add barberries)
 - [[http://www.turkishcookbook.com/2005/08/bulgur-pilaf.php][Bulgar Pilaf]]

* Roasted Plant Matter

 - [[Black Bean Burgers]]
 - [[Basic Sauteed Tofu]]

* Roasted Animal Flesh

 - Basic [[Beef and Lamb Kebabs]]
 - [[Koftah-Adana Hybrid Kebabs]]

* Things Into Which Other Things Are Dipped

 - [[Maast-o Khiar]]
 - [[Hummus]]
 - [[Guacamole]]

* Things Which Are Placed Upon Other Things

 - [[Habanero Hot Sauce]]

* Light Fare

 - [[http://www.superluminal.com/cookbook/small_dolmas.html][Dolmas]]
Commit	Line	Data
09816bb9	1	#title Guess You Gotta Eat
ba5275a0	2
	3	* Bread
	4
	5	** Slavery
	6
	7	Rather than buy yeast I decided to be hardcore and enslave wild yeast
	8	in a jar. It is actually [[http://www.io.com/~sjohn/sour.htm][pretty damn easy]]. I used the method mentioned
	9	in the former link, but added a bit of science (or--I've kept a beer
	10	yeast starter before). I used my giant bottle of Iodophor to sanitize
	11	the jar in which the yeast were to live (just to kill any natives; I
	12	rinsed the jar afterward with tap water and didn't sanitize any
	13	utensils), made sure the water used for feeding was at about 90°F, and
	14	fed the starter a tablespoon of dry malt extract (maltose being to
	15	yeast what fast food is to a fat American) and a quarter teaspoon of
	16	lemon juice (just to slightly acidify the initial mix and make the
	17	yeasties new home a bit more hospitable to only them at first) for the
	18	first two days. This resulted in a bubbly and happy starter on the
	19	third day, made interesting bread on the fourth, and was successfully
	20	cloned for someone else on the fifth!
	21
	22	Just remember to measure the volume of the original mixture and write
	23	that down so you can easily substitute it into recipes (mine worked
	24	out to ⅔ cup of starter from ½ cup of flour and water, but flour
	25	varies in absorbency rabble blah moo etc.).
	26
	27	** Pita
	28
	29	- [[Pita]] (the base for all of the others)
	30	- [[Olive Pita]]
	31	- [[Sun Dried Tomato Pita]]
	32
f7fa1f0d	33	** Normal Bread
	34
	35	- [[Sourdough Rye]]
	36
ba5275a0	37	* Rice and Whatnot
	38
	39	- [[http://www.superluminal.com/cookbook/pilaf_chelou.html][Chelou]] (I usually add barberries)
	40	- [[http://www.turkishcookbook.com/2005/08/bulgur-pilaf.php][Bulgar Pilaf]]
	41
09816bb9	42	* Roasted Plant Matter
	43
	44	- [[Black Bean Burgers]]
	45	- [[Basic Sauteed Tofu]]
	46
958a9e34	47	* Roasted Animal Flesh
	48
	49	- Basic [[Beef and Lamb Kebabs]]
	50	- [[Koftah-Adana Hybrid Kebabs]]
	51
ba5275a0	52	* Things Into Which Other Things Are Dipped
	53
	54	- [[Maast-o Khiar]]
	55	- [[Hummus]]
6b397282	56	- [[Guacamole]]
6b397282	57
1aeb4325	58	* Things Which Are Placed Upon Other Things
6b397282	59
6b397282	60	- [[Habanero Hot Sauce]]
ba5275a0	61
	62	* Light Fare
	63
	64	- [[http://www.superluminal.com/cookbook/small_dolmas.html][Dolmas]]