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Sweetness of the sourdough life: Getting into a baking ritual pays off

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:46:51 GMT

The thing I missed most when I gave up gluten was my sourdough ritual.Night before: Mix a sponge. Morning of baking: Mix the dough, set aside to walk the dog. After walkies: Knead the dough. Work out and shower while the dough rests. Lunchtime: Shape the dough and let it rise. Eat lunch. Take a nap. Afternoon: Fire up the oven and bake – just in time for warm bread slathered with butter at dinnertime.Gluten-free sourdough is very different, and yet, sort of the same. There’s no kneading, but you have to search out what seems like a lot of hard-to-find ingredients. Ultimately, however, you still take something you made from scratch out of the oven, tear it apart while it’s still warm (though you’re not supposed to – more on that later), slather it with butter and devour it.I’ve tried to keep a gluten-free sourdough starter alive before, and to make a weekly baking ritual part of my routine, and it’s never been a success — until now. I have to give the credit to another natural ...

Pagosa Brewing Co. to close this summer, but its famous fish and chips are already gone

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:46:51 GMT

Last year was a great one for Pagosa Brewing Co. & Grill, according to co-owner Tony Simmons. The brewpub recovered “surprisingly well” from hardships associated with the COVID-19 pandemic and ensured everyone on staff made a decent living, he said.But visitors currently seeking to try the restaurant’s famous wild salmon fish and chips can’t since the restaurant closed on Feb. 12. And the brewery, located in an adjacent building, has closed its taproom indefinitely and is only distributing a fraction of the couple dozen beers it typically brews as Simmons courts prospective tenants and buyers for both businesses.Pagosa Brewing Co. co-owner Tony Simmons. (File)Come this summer, Simmons and his family are planning to move out of state, bookending his 16 years on this beer-making endeavor.Pagosa Brewing Co. & Grill is the latest in a wave of Colorado breweries to announce plans to close. Simmons, who owns the business with his wife Julie Simmons, isn’t surprised by this t...

Flexible? Cheap flight alerts might save you big money

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:46:51 GMT

There are some airfare prices that sound too good to be true. But you can find them, if you know where, and when to look."There are so many cheap flights available even at a time like this when airfares are at relative highs," said Scott Keyes, founder of the airfare deal site Going.com.He got hooked on finding low airfares a decade ago after nabbing an unbelievable fare to Italy for just $130 bucks."I felt like gosh, even if this trip is terrible, I paid almost nothing to be here, no big deal," explained Keyes.If you want to nab a fare like that, you have to act quick.Sites like Going constantly monitor airfares to find mistakes and unadvertised cheap fares."You’re not necessarily going to know about them because the airline isn’t running a big ad campaign," said Keyes.You can sign up to get free low-price alerts from a variety of websites, but unless you pay, the information might be delayed until after subscribers get first dibs.Going’s free plan sends international alerts only. ...

Farrago Feels Blessed

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:46:51 GMT

Farrago Feels Blessed: Belgian DJ and producer Farrago, a leading protagonist in the techno 2.0 generation and part of the Exhale community, has a track called “The Keymaster,” a collaboration with Part Time Killer, on the Exhale 004 comp. He’s also just released details about his own new album.Farrago was encouraged to get involved in electronic music by a friend.“My mate told me it would be easier to ‘score girls’ if we became DJ’s and so we did,” he says with a laugh. “Don’t judge, I was 15 and easily manipulated. It got more serious when I sold my turntables a year or 2 later to buy a decent laptop and start producing. I was determined to make a living by making and playing my music and everything else that followed was in pursuit of this dream.”Now, he describes his sound as “Fast and trippy psy infused trance and techno.” Meanwhile, he feels generally happy about the current state of electronic music.“I used to feel v...

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Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:46:51 GMT

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Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:46:51 GMT

Have you been feeling The Void? Well we have just what you need to get filled up: Aussie rockers Parkway Drive are going on a North American tour. The trek dubbed “Monsters of Oz” will hit 19 dates in the U.S. and Canada with special guests The Amity Affliction, Northlane and Make Them Suffer — all Australian rockers. The tour launches September 1o in Atlanta, GA and wraps October 7 in Sacramento, CA, and will feature a stop here in Southern California at the FivePoint Amphitheatre in Irvine October 6 — see below for all dates. Passwords and presale codes for the Parkway Drive Monsters of Oz North America Tour 2023 tickets are as follows:Presale codes for Parkway Drive Monsters of Oz North America Tour 2023Presale tickets for Parkway Drive Monsters of Oz North America Tour 2023 are currently underway and we’ve been told the following presale codes and passwords may work. Details are subject to change, and vary by event date:Spotify presale code or password: MONSTER...

State judges back San Jose decision on downtown “brutalist” building

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:46:51 GMT

SAN JOSE — A panel of state judges has backed the city of San Jose’s decision to clear the way for a “brutalist” building on a prime site to be bulldozed as part of the creation of a huge downtown tech campus.The state Court of Appeal, in a 3-0 decision, affirmed a 2021 decision by a Santa Clara County Superior Court judge that determined the city acted properly in approving a tech campus on the site of Cityview Plaza, a downtown San Jose office and restaurant complex that was developed over a period from 1968 up until 1985.Preservation Action Council of San Jose, an activist group, filed a lawsuit in 2020 to force city officials to redo an environmental impact report for the campus project, litigation that was part of a quest to preserve the brutalist building. County Judge Sunil Kulkarni ruled in favor of San Jose and against the preservationists, saying the city properly crafted the project’s environmental impact report.San Jose’s approval of t...

Abcarian: What Clarence Thomas calls hospitality looks like corruption

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:46:51 GMT

I am shocked, shocked to find that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ commitment to originalism — that is, the belief that legal texts should be interpreted as they were understood when they were adopted — comes to a screeching halt the minute he slides off the bench.When Congress passed the Ethics in Government Act in 1978, which requires government officials to report gifts, I’m pretty sure legislators had in mind exactly the sort of relationship Thomas has with the Republican megadonor and Nazi memorabilia collector Harlan Crow.I mean, maybe nothing can stop a venal Supreme Court justice from being lavished with gifts by a conservative billionaire (the rules are lax compared to other public servants), but Congress most certainly requires the grabby justice to disclose the billionaire’s generosity.Thanks to spectacular reporting by the nonprofit investigative outfit ProPublica, we now know that for at least two decades, Crow has served as Clarence and Ginni T...

Stale bread? Put it to good use in all sorts of dishes

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:46:51 GMT

Spring cleaning is a refreshing and cathartic ritual, and the kitchen is a great place to begin. Clean out the refrigerator, toss any items with long-past use-by dates, and refresh those old spices parked in a drawer. As you fill your trash and recycling bins, keep one exception in mind: Under no circumstances should you throw out any stale bread.Stale breads are the faded belles of glorious loaves past. In their prime, they are tender and golden, piping hot from the oven and swirling with yeasty steam when broken apart. Dressed with a pat of butter or a drizzle of olive oil, they are luxuriously simple. And while the pleasure of eating freshly baked bread is sublime, it’s also fleeting. Once the loaves are exposed to air, they cool and begin to lose their moisture, drying out and hardening as time passes. After a day or two, the fragrant fresh loaf is often considered a has-been, banished to the corners of the bread tin, the back of the refrigerator or discarded.Now, before you dec...