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Barley with Red Onions and Black Olives; Why eat barley?

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Barley. Barley has been an important food crop for the last 10,000 years or so. Barley beer was probably the first drink developed by Neolithic humans. Barley has been used as currency. Barley is good for us. And yet, as food, most of us know it only as one half of Campbell’s Beef Barley Soup. We’re very familiar with it’s other uses. When I was at university I learned about … Continue reading →

Bread Baking Babes get Korni

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At least some of the Bread Baking Babes…. Our Dauntless Dozen of Beautiful Baking Babes are realizing that life has a way of interfering with the best of intentions.  The result being that not everyone manages to spend quality time with their dough every month.  For me, sometimes it's the inability to get the ingredients.  In a country with over 33,000 boulangeries or bread shops, home-baking is somewhat less than … Continue reading →