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#title Guess You Gotta Eat

* Bread

** Yeast Ranching

Rather than buy yeast I decided to be hardcore and capture 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 (starting with a clean slate;
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 an 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]]
 - [[Black Bean and Chickpea Burgers]]
 - [[Basic Sauteed Tofu]]
 - [[Simple Teriyaki Tofu]] (*Work in Progress* and not very good... yet)
 - [[Cauliflower Wings]] (*Work in Progress* but pretty good already).

* 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]]

* Things That Go Into Other Things

 - [[Roasted Garlic]]

* Sides

 - [[Quick Black Beans]]: works as a side or as a vegetarian base for
   tacos, and only takes about ten minutes to make.

* 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
886477c7	5	** Yeast Ranching
ba5275a0	6
886477c7	7	Rather than buy yeast I decided to be hardcore and capture wild yeast
ba5275a0	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
886477c7 CE	11	the jar in which the yeast were to live (starting with a clean slate;
886477c7 CE	12	I rinsed the jar afterward with tap water and didn't sanitize any
ba5275a0	13	utensils), made sure the water used for feeding was at about 90°F, and
ba5275a0	14	fed the starter a tablespoon of dry malt extract (maltose being to
886477c7	15	yeast what fast food is to an American) and a quarter teaspoon of
ba5275a0	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]]
ea6af94b	45	- [[Black Bean and Chickpea Burgers]]
09816bb9	46	- [[Basic Sauteed Tofu]]
ea6af94b CE	47	- [[Simple Teriyaki Tofu]] (Work in Progress and not very good... yet)
ea6af94b CE	48	- [[Cauliflower Wings]] (Work in Progress but pretty good already).
09816bb9	49
958a9e34	50	* Roasted Animal Flesh
	51
	52	- Basic [[Beef and Lamb Kebabs]]
	53	- [[Koftah-Adana Hybrid Kebabs]]
	54
ba5275a0	55	* Things Into Which Other Things Are Dipped
	56
	57	- [[Maast-o Khiar]]
	58	- [[Hummus]]
6b397282	59	- [[Guacamole]]
6b397282	60
1aeb4325	61	* Things Which Are Placed Upon Other Things
6b397282	62
6b397282	63	- [[Habanero Hot Sauce]]
ba5275a0	64
886477c7 CE	65	* Things That Go Into Other Things
	66
	67	- [[Roasted Garlic]]
	68
76c6d39e CE	69	* Sides
	70
	71	- [[Quick Black Beans]]: works as a side or as a vegetarian base for
	72	tacos, and only takes about ten minutes to make.
	73
ba5275a0	74	* Light Fare
	75
	76	- [[http://www.superluminal.com/cookbook/small_dolmas.html][Dolmas]]