Author Archives: Matthew

Rustic (and easy!) Dinner Rolls

By Matthew | Published: December 10, 2008
Sustainable Pantry played host to a dinner party on Saturday night, where we executed a menu from Eric Ripert’s blog aveceric.com as part of a dinner social contest.  We’ll be submitting a photo for the contest this week (wish us luck!).  You can read more about the contest here. One thing that wasn’t listed on [...]
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Sourdough from Scratch!

By Matthew | Published: November 25, 2008
If you’ve been following Sustainable Pantry you know that I have been trying to create my own sourdough starter for months now.   Thanks to persistence, comments from readers, and a few great resources I finally did it! (see previous post to find out how).  Last night I put that starter to work, and the [...]
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A Sourdough Starter: Success?

By Matthew | Published: November 22, 2008
After two failed attempts at creating a sourdough starter from scratch, and a lot of helpful advice and comments from readers, I have created what appears to be a very healthy 12 day old starter. The method came from Mike at SourdoughHome.com, by way of Jonathan and it was very simple (thanks guys!): Mix 1/4 [...]
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Notes from a quiet kitchen

By Matthew | Published: November 5, 2008
The past week has found us a bit busy and neglecting our kitchen, and our blog.  After a lot of training, Alexa ran the NYC marathon on Sunday (Go Alexa & Leslie!!) So while our kitchen has been a bit quiet, I thought I’d provide you with some inspiration from the amazing chef of Le [...]
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Hearty, Healthy Cold-Weather Breaky

By Matthew | Published: October 29, 2008
Once the cold weather starts creeping in, we like to change breakfast gears and head for the nice comfort of steel-cut oats.  Steel-cut oats in the morning?  Who has time for that (you may be thinking)?  Well we don’t, which is why we make a nice vat of the stuff on Sunday night, and heat [...]
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