Perhaps I was a little hasty July 17th, 2007 by torimckee
Bread.
I want some. I want a sandwich. And pasta. I want pasta too.
I am wondering if I was a little hasty in declaring that I would allow myself flour and goods made with flour, as long as I made the goods myself. Hello, it’s summer. Not exactly oven-on-for-hours weather. I am a pasta-making novice, but one thing I have discovered is that making pasta is more difficult when it’s warm. It gets really sticky and turns into a big lump when it comes out of the extruder. Or, maybe that’s just me. Either way, I’m eating a lot more cheese and eggs than my cholesterol level is comfortable with because of the lack of bread, pasta, and rice in my life.
I’m contemplating instituting a “Too Hot” loophole, which would allow me to purchase bread and pasta if the weather is too hot to make my own. Cheating? Or preventing an early death-by-cholesterol?
It looks like I have a few days to work this out, though, since it’s supposed to be cooler and rainy here for the next few days. Guess I’ll be baking some bread this afternoon when I get home from work!
CKarr Says: July 19th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
Hi Tori,
One option for bread mixes and pastas may be a fairly local company called Azure Standard. They have a large organic farm and livestock ranch in Dufur OR which is just in Central Oregon. They make some of their own bread mixes, pastas, and even a killer pancake mix from grains that they grew on their farm and milled or had milled locally and then pack into their own brand. Small family run operation who also has an internet site you can order from.
Maybe that might save you in those tough times. It can be done, just challenging for people to know all the places to get local sustainable or organic items. Would be nice if there was once central database or publication that had all the different options sorted by category or type of food and where to get it! HMMMMMMMMm…….
CKarr Says: July 19th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
oh i forgot the website address is www.azurestandard.com.
They are a distributor of other items as well, so look for the items with the Azure Standard label.