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• Recipes - Stir the Pots

  Recipes   The past few months I'd been reactivating my army recipes, inspired by the departure of one of my staff  who needed some personal time off, he grew tired of cooking. His replacement was amic...

• cooking - Stir the Pots

  cooking Instead of burgers, why not offer kofta kebab for "staff meal?" Sometimes a bit of extra flare or puffy pita can pop the pleasure yearnings for a hungry staff. Kofta is a higher quality street...

• Bread - Stir the Pots

  Bread   Amy Scherber has over spent three decades honing her expertise in baking, bread, and running a food business. I have followed her for years. In fact, as we published here, she was a genuine mu...

• gardens - Stir the Pots

  gardens Being a city gardener means hanging pots on the railing of my fire escape. My acreage is small so my crops consist of mostly of herbs and lettuces. While in isolation, I've become a better far...

• Pressure cooker | Stir the Pots

  Pressure cooker After I fell in love with Instant Pot cooking, my old pressure cooker has been in storage. So I brought it to work to put to use. Initially I used it for staff meals. Then it became ha...

• Stollen | Stir the Pots

  Stollen Every year I try to sneak a stollen in my Christmas-time baking. I view it as my "naughty dough," a nod to a Kurt Vonnegut story. It also serves as a narrow window to my birth country, Germany...