Project

 

Bought this non-shiny piece of hardware today.  It will be part of an experiment to become more “prepperish” in a rational manner.  My son G. and I are currently going through an “I love Indian food” phase and one of the things that I especially enjoy is when the restaurant brings me a basket of hot naan.  It truly makes my day.  

So the culinary learning effort for the next little while will be the production, consumption, and improvement of flatbreads.  

Tortillas (both corn and flour) will always hold a special place in my heart.  Having grown up with Wonder Bread, when I discovered that bread could actually have flavor, I was blown away.  But with the exception of pairing white American bread with good smoked barbeque, it really will never have a place in my kitchen.

What the American yuppie boomer scum have done with European-style bread makes me want to wean myself off of any American raised bread that is for sale.  Local bakeries here in the land of riots and self-righteousness (Portland, OR) a loaf of bread can run you between $9.00 and $13.00 bucks.  Oh, I can grab the bus over to Dave’s Killer Bread (Owned by a big corp claiming social consciousness) and buy a loaf of frozen day-old bread for around $4.00.  Daves is a better deal, but I can only afford to live off their scraps (in stores, the price pushes $7.00).

So, I am thinking that bread is, and always will be the “staff of life”, whatever that means.  So learning to make the breads that taste good and sustain the poor will be essential in the years ahead.  My projects will be naan for a wheat bread and corn tortillas