Walkin’ My Baby Back Home

Posted on February 22, 2013 by Mark Zeiger

Yesterday afternoon, I prepared to walk Michelle home from work. I brought down my hunting rifle and loaded it, strapped my best headlamp to my forehead, and grabbed the fog horn from its nail near the front door.

I carried the rifle as a last-resort back up to the fog horn, which would be doing the heavy lifting on this trip, should it become necessary. Hopefully, I wouldn’t need either, but I felt better having them than going without.

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The Homestead Reference Library: Alaska Sourdough

Posted on February 20, 2013 by Mark Zeiger

It’s been a long time since I’ve written about our homestead reference library. In honor of our sourdough starter’s 21st anniversary today, It’a time to profile one of our most revered resources, Ruth Allman’s Alaska Sourdough (paid link) (check your local independent bookstore).

I’ve mentioned the book in an older post.This chatty, meandering, homely, yet wonderfully informative cookbook had been my mother’s guide in the care and use of sourdough through the years she raised it in our home. My parents gave us our own copy back in the early ’90s, and it has been our primary guide to all things sourdough ever since. In fact, I probably used a recipe from this book to start our own sourdough in the first place.

Ruth Allman, Alaska Sourdough

Our copy of Ruth Allman’s book, our guide since 1991 (Photo: Mark Zeiger).

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