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In Praise of the Vita-Mix

In Praise of the Vita-Mix

This is going to be a shameless plug for the Vita-Mix machine. And I do mean shameless, because I do not have any reservations in recommending this awesome machine for anyone’s kitchen.
We purchased our Vita-Mix almost six years ago and have never had a moment’s trouble with it. The warranty is seven years.
Here’s what I [...]

Fruit Smoothie Formula

Have you ever read a smoothie recipe — greatly desiring a sweet, cool, icy treat — only to realize that you have few of the ingredients listed? You need a smoothie formula. Use this method to craft smoothies from the ingredients you have in your kitchen. Tweak the smoothie by adjusting the components to suit [...]

Cracked Grain Cereal Mix

Commercial health food companies offer cracked grain cereals. I like to mix up my own for 2 reasons:
1) I can use more differing grains. While I have seen 12-grain and 7-grain cereal mixes for sale, I have never seen any for sale with as many as the 14 different grains as I currently crack and [...]

Whole Wheat Bread — 2 Loaf Recipe

Whole Wheat Bread
for the 6 qt. Professional KitchenAid Mixer

Would you like to see how this is made? Go to Whole Wheat Bread Baking Tutorial (with pictures).
makes 2 large loaves or 3 regular loaves

6-2/3 cups whole wheat flour (preferably hard white wheat flour)
2-2/3 cups warm water
1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon SAF [...]

Attempting Whole Wheat Farina

I took my own advice and ground up all my flours for the week’s baking last night. I even measured out the flour and yeast for two batches of bread so all that was needed this morning was to pour the warm water in and let the sponge begin. The dough is on its first [...]