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Using Baker’s Math

Bread recipes written in baker's math format can be intimidating. How do you know how much of each ingredient to…

  • Mike Nolan
  • Posted on October 28, 2022
  • Baking

The Pie (Dough) Chart

Or, How to make the right amount of pie dough regardless of your pie pan size. If you've ever wound…

  • Mike Nolan
  • Posted on October 16, 2020
  • Baking

Measuring Pie Dough Thickness

As part of the research for a post on making pie dough (https://mynebraskakitchen.com/wordpress/the-pie-dough-chart/), I've been doing some testing on pie…

  • Mike Nolan
  • Posted on March 25, 2020
  • Baking

Beginning the low-salt journey

A week ago my cardiologist put me on a low salt and restricted liquids diet. Yesterday was my first trip…

  • Mike Nolan
  • Posted on January 5, 2018
  • Cooking

Getting Seeds to Stick to Bread

In a recent thread on My Nebraska Kitchen, the issue of how to get seeds to stick to bread came…

  • Mike Nolan
  • Posted on September 6, 2017
  • Baking

Aspen House Restaurant — Great Dining in the High Plains

Rawlins, Wyoming, is not the sort of place where you'd expect to find a great restaurant, but we did. The…

  • Mike Nolan
  • Posted on July 11, 2017
  • Uncategorized

Gravy — the real Mother (and Father) sauce

Classically trained chefs, please stop reading this column now. OK, you've been warned. In classic French cooking there are five…

  • Mike Nolan
  • Posted on May 24, 2017
  • Cooking

Uncle George and the (Pepper) Dragon

A Christmas tradition in my wife's family is to serve oyster stew on Christmas Eve, with the men doing the…

  • Mike Nolan
  • Posted on December 7, 2016
  • Cooking

The Butter Did it–The Art of Reading Cookbooks

Most people have a few authors or genres that they prefer to read, often reading the same book many times.…

  • Mike Nolan
  • Posted on November 20, 2016
  • Cooking

My Kind Of (Restaurant) Town

One of the best parts about spending most of a week in Chicago for Chocolate Boot Camp was that Chicago…

  • Mike Nolan
  • Posted on October 18, 2016
  • Restaurants

My Week At Chocolate Boot Camp — Day 4

It's day 4, the last day of Chocolate Boot Camp. (Most Chocolate Academy courses are three days long, but this…

  • Mike Nolan
  • Posted on October 16, 2016
  • Cooking

My Week At Chocolate Boot Camp — Days 2 and 3

Day 2 of Chocolate Boot Camp started out pretty much where day 1 left off, tempering dark chocolate.  (Here's Part…

  • Mike Nolan
  • Posted on October 15, 2016
  • Cooking

My Week at Chocolate Boot Camp — Day 1

Chocolate is something I've dabbled with over the years, covering home made candy (especially sponge candy) with milk chocolate, for…

  • Mike Nolan
  • Posted on October 12, 2016
  • Cooking

Cooking an Eye of Round Roast

If you do a search on how to cook eye of round, one of the most commonly suggested methods is…

  • Mike Nolan
  • Posted on August 24, 2016
  • Cooking

The Cutting Edge or How Sharp is your Knife?

Take your best knife out and look at it closely.  How sharp is it? Probably not as sharp as you…

  • Mike Nolan
  • Posted on July 16, 2016
  • Cooking

Delicious Liasons — the Science and Art of Thickening

Liason. The very word conjures up images of entanglements, and well it should, since it comes from the French verb…

  • Mike Nolan
  • Posted on July 3, 2016
  • Cooking

Vinagrettes — Traditional and not-so-traditional

The textbook definition of a vinagrette is a suspension of an oil and vinegar, an acid, possibly with other seasonings…

  • Mike Nolan
  • Posted on June 13, 2016
  • Cooking

Things they don’t tell you about home grain milling

A few years ago I received a Nutrimill machine as a Christmas present from my older son, along with a…

  • Mike Nolan
  • Posted on May 27, 2016
  • Baking

No Garlic, Please!

"Hello, my name is Jeff, I'll be your server today." "Hi, Jeff.  My wife has an allergy to garlic, can…

  • Mike Nolan
  • Posted on May 14, 2016
  • Cooking

Welcome to My Nebraska Kitchen

Welcome to My Nebraska Kitchen!  We are a site for discussing cooking and baking that is functional, easy to use,…

  • Mike Nolan
  • Posted on May 11, 2016
  • Administrative

New Posts

  • Reply To: What are you Baking the Week of March 26, 2023? 13 hours, 49 minutes ago by BakerAunt
  • Reply To: What are you Cooking the Week of March 26, 2023? 13 hours, 54 minutes ago by BakerAunt
  • Reply To: 2023 Garden Plans 2 days, 1 hour ago by Mike Nolan
  • Reply To: What are you Baking the Week of March 19, 2023? 4 days, 19 hours ago by Joan Simpson
  • Reply To: Lay-Offs at Americas Test Kitchen 6 days, 4 hours ago by aaronatthedoublef
  • Reply To: What are you Cooking the Week of March 19, 2023? 6 days, 11 hours ago by Mike Nolan
  • Reply To: Packaging on Fresh Produce 1 week ago by aaronatthedoublef
  • Reply To: What are You Cooking the Week of March 12, 2023? 1 week, 5 days ago by RiversideLen
  • Reply To: What are You Baking the Week of March 12, 2023? 1 week, 6 days ago by Mike Nolan

Recent Recipes

  • Scottish Oatcakes
  • Creamy Tomato Soup
  • Pumpkin Purée
  • Maple Cheesecake from the Arlington Inn
  • Shrimp and orzo salad
  • All-butter pie crust
  • Flaky Pie Crust
  • Plain Cinnamon Rolls (Schnecken)
  • Chicken Juniper aka Elegant Chicken
  • Cranberry Pistachio Biscotti
  • Blueberry Greek Yogurt Cake Without Butter
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  • Crispy Oven Fish and Chips with Dill Tartar Sauce
  • Angel Biscuits
  • Plum dumplings

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