Breakfast has always been tough for me. And once I learned how processed commercial flour is, I thought pancakes for a quick, easy breakfast were out. But no. Enter: Fresh milled pancakes made with buckwheat and einkorn. In other words, the holy grail of breakfasts. They’re quick and easy to make. They’re flavorful and fluffy.
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When I started using fresh milled flour over a decade ago, I made loaf after loaf of door stopper-style bread. This fresh milled honey oat sandwich bread was my first break through. Hallelujah–after so many failures, finally, I made a loaf my family would eat. And it was so soft and fluffy. I truly think
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What is fresh milled flour? Fresh milled flour is simply real flour. Using a home grain mill, wheat berries (the whole grain wheat kernel, essentially unmilled flour) are ground into flour and used as soon as possible. The reason using fresh milled flour quickly is important is because flour is actually a perishable food. Just
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Fresh milled einkorn chocolate chip cookies have changed my life. I’ve always been a chocolate chip cookie snob. But back in the day, that meant following the Nestle Tollhouse recipe to a T, including using refined, bleached all-purpose flour, refined white sugar, margarine sticks for “butter,” and Nestle chips. Let’s just say, things have changed
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Fresh milled sourdough sandwich bread The holy grail of bread baking? Fresh flour sourdough. For years after I made the switch to fresh milled flour, I assumed I just wasn’t going to make good sourdough bread again. I was cranking out beautiful commercial yeast loaves. But whenever I attempted sourdough bread with fresh flour, I
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My biggest haters are over grain mills. When I started posting on Instagram, I never would have imagined that my biggest haters would be over the fact that they can’t afford a grain mill. And I get it. Things are tight right now. But when I invested in my grain mill, I knew it was
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Purchasing wheat berries can be surprisingly difficult. When I started milling my own flour I was very confused. I had such a hard time finding reputable wheat berries that I purchased sketchy bags of grains from e-bay. Whoops. Thankfully, you’re not doomed to the fate of random wheat berries from e-bay. (Is that website even
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The day my first flour mill arrived I was overwhelmed. But the truth is, I was overwhelmed even before my mill arrived. And if you’re in the same boat figuring out how to choose a flour mill, I’m here to simplify it for you. After over a decade of milling my own flour and either
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Want to bake with kamut? Or maybe you call it khorasan? Yes, you can bake amazing things with the grain with the funny names, no matter what you call it.
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Sourdough was my original love, before fresh milled flour entered the picture. Once I started using my grain mill on a daily basis, sourdough fell of my radar for a while. I was so captivated by wheat berries, mills, fresh flour, and fresh milled bread, that my sourdough starter became neglected. A coincidence? Maybe.
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