My Nebraska Kitchen

My wife and I have been explor­ing the world of keto­genic diets, with mul­ti­ple goals in mind. One is weight loss, of course, but the oth­er is to see if this would have some impact on our Type II dia­betes. (Diane is tak­ing insulin, I am not–yet.) Heart and kid­ney issues com­pli­cate mat­ters fur­ther. And…

Bread recipes writ­ten in bak­er’s math for­mat can be intim­i­dat­ing. How do you know how much of each ingre­di­ent to mea­sure out? I think recipes writ­ten in bak­er’s math for­mat are eas­i­er to use once you know how much dough you want to pro­duce, which is almost always the case in a com­mer­cial bak­ery. If they…

Or, How to make the right amount of pie dough regard­less of your pie pan size. If you’ve ever wound up with a bowl full of extra pie dough cut off the edge or had to roll your pie dough real­ly thin to get it to fill the entire pan, this arti­cle is for you. Pie dough…

A few years ago I received a Nutrim­ill machine as a Christ­mas present from my old­er son, along with a big buck­et of soft red wheat berries. As Christ­mas presents go, it’s prob­a­bly been one of my favorites over the past 25 years, cer­tain­ly one that opened up a new world for me. Milling my own flour…