I try to stay away from starchy foods like bread and pasta, but the idea of smokey pulled pork on a freshly baked potato bun sounded too good to pass on. It really was a stellar menu: the pork shoulder from one of our friend Mike’s pigs, cooked low and slow on our home smoker; […]
One of the adults at our school asked if we were using turkey bacon to make bacon cheese bread in our food appreciation classes. “Heck, no!” I replied. “We do not use fake bacon in our classes!” We teach kids to make traditional foods using traditional tools and techniques. Modern “healthy” alternatives, such as substituting […]
The original recipe for this delicious quick bread originally called for fresh cranberries. But with cranberries out of season, we had a choice to make and opted to use sweetened dried cranberries instead. The result is perhaps more like a fruit cake than a bread. So much the better. The kids couldn’t get enough. The […]
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