May 2011
I love making and baking bread, who doesn’t enjoy eating fresh, homemade bread hot from the oven? The problem is the time it takes to make, the mixing, the kneading, the rising, the kneading again, the shaping, the rising again… it just takes too much time and attention.
About a year ago, I started seeing books and recipes for no-knead breads, it looks almost too good to be true, this method makes what is often referred to as “artisan breads”, the kind that cost a small fortune in the specialty bakeries, who knew how easy these breads were to make?
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Last weekend, the US president announced he was taking steps to speed up oil and natural gas drilling on public lands and offshore waters.
The reason was basic politics: Rising energy costs, especially the price of gasoline, which is now more than $4 a gallon, have people upset, and they tend to take their anger out in the next election on the party in power. Ultimately economic growth will always trump concerns over the environment.
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Multi-millionaire TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson has said that anyone living off the grid is likely to have a better life than his own.
In a recent newspaper column he describes his move to an unfurnished flat in Central London and says that someone living in a barn and feeding off “what you could find in a hedge” would be better off than him.
In his column, Top Gear presenter Clarkson, 50, reveals he has been thinking of doing without the modern conveniences of living. “In recent times, I have become so fed up with everything I own that I started to think seriously about what life would be like without any of it,” he said.
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Water for about $1 per gallon, and electricity for about 35 cents per kilowatt hour
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Gas and electricity prices are expected to surge by 15 per cent
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