Oatmeal Bread: Staff of Life

Baking bread is something primal everyone should really try once. I mean, not to be preachy, but there’s something really basic about this that I find really relaxing. Oh, and you make the best bread imaginable, baking your own, as well. Plus, it can be stored in the fridge for weeks, or frozen for months. And you can make oatmeal bread, which is what I consider to be one of the best twists on straight up bread out there.

Chili Con Carne: My particular version

I love chili. This recipe is one of my favorites to do, as it’s great for a crowd, or even solo – you just need to freeze the leftovers. The only unfortunate thing is that making it solo means it’s not really workable to do cornbread with it, unless you really want stale leftover cornbread for cornbread stuffing. Which isn’t a bad option, considering. Really, it just comes down to the fact I’ll use just about any excuse to break out this recipe – I love chili, and this version is my favorite.

Rise from your grave

This is a quick update. It’s been almost a year since this project started, then went idle. I’ve since regretted this going idle, as it was a good exercise in note-taking, record keeping, and photography, besides the fact that it might have shared some good recipes with people. However, I think, my formal style and extreme focus kept this from being a relaxing and easygoing project, and also the fact that I had not found an image optimization program yet, which would allow me to add pictures to this site without them being miserably slow uploads. At any rate, things got bogged down, then I went on a month long trip, and never really got back to this. This changes now.

So, I’m restarting this,  as a less formal blog which will contain both recipes, as well as bits from my life. In particular, I’m probably going to add some writeups of some of the trips I’ve experienced as a geologist, as well as any future ones I get involved in. I’ll try to make those interesting, too.

Given that I never particularly aimed at having any sort of readership, if anyone’s still out there, hi. And if anyone begins reading now, hello as well. Future posts will probably contain more content than this announcement.

Starting out: An introduction

So I’ve got this shiny new blog, but if I don’t say what it is, how will anyone know? Without further dissembling, this is what The Cutting Board is.