2012-04-10 19:16
For all intents and purposes, Dough, Dirt & Dye is defunct. However, you can still find me at my food and recipe blog, An Unrefined Vegan Read More
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Dough, Dirt & Dye centers around three joys of my life: baking bread, growing things and creating art - all inspired by the windy, grassy, lonely, cattle-centric environment of eastern Oklahoma
2012-03-28 14:53
un·u·su·al adjective not usual, common, or ordinary; uncommon in amount or degree; exceptional: an unusual sound; an unusual hobby; an unusual response. Origin: 1… Read More
2012-03-15 14:08
All of us have, I think, a little bit of the crow in us, the greedy raven. A little part that is attracted to shiny things, sparkling in the light. We want to reach out, touch, t… Read More
2012-03-11 15:33
It started a couple of years ago with an ill-conceived idea of launching a hand-painted greeting card store on Etsy - how hard could that be? - and progressed slowly from there: blogging (no… Read More
2012-03-08 14:33
Back to the howling old owl in the woodsHunting the horny back toadOh I've finally decided my future liesBeyond the yellow brick road- Elton John, Goodbye, Yellow Brick RoadEvery once in a w… Read More
2012-03-01 14:49
Triple D will be quiet for a few days while I journey to northern California to spend time with two of my best and dearest friends (whom forthwith shall be dubbed L and K) - women I've known… Read More
2012-02-29 17:04
Even if we had cable or satellite, we wouldn't watch The Academy Awards. I might reconsider if they pared things down to, oh, about ten minutes. And that would be ten minutes of… Read More
2012-02-27 15:52
Making your own dinner rolls is almost as easy as buying the frozen ones from the grocery store - and it's a lot healthier and certainly more satisfying. This is a relatively quick dou… Read More
2012-02-27 15:52
Making your own dinner rolls is almost as easy as buying the frozen ones from the grocery store - and it's a lot healthier and certainly more satisfying. This is a relatively quick dou… Read More
2012-02-24 16:19
Most of my "out of nowhere" memories - the ones that stick like glue for years and years - originated at night. It's when perception is strongest. When ears and eyes strain to catch th… Read More
2012-02-21 14:57
In his bread baking tome, The Bread Baker's Apprentice, Peter Reinhart relates the apocryphal story behind the origin of Anadama bread: an angry fisherman finds that his the wife has flown t… Read More
2012-02-19 16:32
There is something more dangerous than the icy slope, stronger than the hungry pull of gravity, more treacherous than the scree-strewn slopes of a mountainside: it is the dreaded flat surfac… Read More
2012-02-17 15:06
We carry around in our heads thousands of memories, some of them fragments, some so rich with detail they feel as if the event just occurred. Others are so frayed and thin that they ar… Read More
2012-02-15 13:41
After what feels like a long hiatus, it's time to rev up the Besteam Features once again. Today I'm welcoming a new member - Delia - as well as a returning member - Lilly. Welcom… Read More
2012-02-14 14:42
2012-02-12 17:47
I bought the jacket from Eddie Bauer back in 1997 while living in Russia. Mail order is a wonderful thing. It's a man's large - not sure what my thinking was on that. I'm 5… Read More
2012-02-09 14:36
Stir the dough ingredients together; place in a bowl, cover and refrigerate overnight.The next day, roll out the dough and spread the filling over it. Roll from the long side - jelly-r… Read More
2012-02-09 14:36
Stir the dough ingredients together; place in a bowl, cover and refrigerate overnight.The next day, roll out the dough and spread the filling over it. Roll from the long side - jelly-r… Read More
2012-02-07 13:43
"Which way should we go?""Let's go up."And we do. We follow the cows' paths, smooth and slim, erratic. Some of the paths are deep gulleys with mud rivulets where rain has gushed;… Read More
2012-02-05 13:38
Recently Lynette at Sweet Posy Dreams received the Versatile Blogger Award (yay!) which meant that she in turn was compelled to bestow the award to other bloggers - and lo and behold, she ch… Read More
2012-02-03 20:48
I don't often embark on do-it-yourself projects - getting three meals a day on the table is sometimes more do-it-yourself than I can manage - but because I have never been satisfied with the… Read More
2012-02-01 15:04
May, 2004; the sky a soft blue with no hint of the usual yellow haze from blowing sand. Sitting in a white, subcompact car under the Swords of Qadisyah in Baghdad...Wait. Let me… Read More
2012-01-30 17:44
I was never one for Peeps or Cadbury Eggs at Easter. Halloween was still Halloween without waxy candy corn. And I could easily pass up those red-white-and-green mint candies at C… Read More
2012-01-29 14:10
My love of peanut butter-and-jelly is well know. So when I came across this very interestingly-named bread, I decided right then and there what kind of concoction would comprise the fi… Read More
2012-01-27 15:55
Big city or small town it's not unusual to lose the internet connection now and then and it's probably not even that unusual for the connection to be lost due to a truck plowing into a utili… Read More
2012-01-25 15:38
I can't remember a time when flying was a special occasion warranting the wearing of a nice dress, high heels; a suit and tie for men. Full meals on china with silverware. Drinks… Read More
2012-01-23 13:36
As hard it is to imagine, I had no idea when I signed up for a "premium" shop on Zibbet.com that I had automatically been entered into a contest to win an iPad2. It's a good thing I di… Read More
2012-01-20 15:22
"Captain, you're asking me to work with equipment which is hardly very far ahead of stone knives and bearskins." - Spock, to Captain Kirk (from "The City on the Edge of Forever" episode)As f… Read More
2012-01-17 15:48
At some point during each run this past week, I've had to stop and pinch myself to make sure I'm really running along the Pacific Ocean; that the colorful tangle and variety of flowers are r… Read More
2012-01-17 02:12
On its second night "out in the field" we got exactly zero photos from the wildlife camera. Not to be deterred Kel set the camera up once again - this time at the edge of the woods, fa… Read More
2012-01-12 14:32
1) Clean the Coffee PotI'm not the coffee consumer in the household. Well, I'm not the major* coffee consumer in the household. And I'm fairly certain the major consumer/barrista… Read More
2012-01-12 14:31
Today on An Unrefined Vegan, I've posted a recipe for an elegant, easy-to-make bread that works well as a sandwich bread or alongside dips or spreads, soups and stews. The braid real… Read More
2012-01-12 14:31
Today on An Unrefined Vegan, I've posted a recipe for an elegant, easy-to-make bread that works well as a sandwich bread or alongside dips or spreads, soups and stews. The braid real… Read More
2012-01-08 15:10
Let's do some math. For the sake of my numbers-challenged brain, I'll keep it simple. We live on a 160-acre ranch. There are 6,969,600 square feet in 160 acres. There… Read More
2012-01-02 14:51
I happened to take a close look at my driver's license the other day and noticed that four years had passed since I'd first gotten it - and it was due to expire in a month. Which meant… Read More
2012-01-01 14:19
This year I've heard a lot of this kind of thing: I'm not one for resolutions, so this year I'm not making any. I'm definitely in this camp as well. I don't make bargains with my… Read More
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