Day 1

It’s almost midnight, I’m getting my baguettes ready for baking.  I jump into this

project head first and I’m not sure I’m ready for this.  Just the time alone to make bread is about 2 hours. Making 3 square meals a day is almost a full time job.

This first day has been very revealing.  I had made a great breakfast, home-fries and scrambled eggs, easy and all from scratch.  We went out to one of my favorite places to eat, The Red Bar, for lunch and I had ordered a fish sandwich.  For dinner we had Stefanie’s homemade chicken noodle soup.  The only thing not made from scratch was the egg noodles. This is going to be harder than I expected.

I’ve decided to learn how to make bread as a first step.  It’s one of the larger ingredients used in my lunches on a near daily basis. If this project is to be a success so does this bread.  If it works out tonight I will reveal the recipe tomorrow.  Good night and good luck.

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Single Ingredient Project born

Go look at the ingredients on some of your favorite foods.  You may be surprised that there are some ingredients there you never heard of or worse, can’t even pronounce.  This is the inspiration to the Single Ingredient Project.  We know very little about what is in our food and most don’t care to look, myself included. I have decided, with the help of my fiance, to educate myself about a subject once known to all who stepped into a kitchen; whats in my food.

The goal of this project is simple, if there is a food that I eat that has more than one ingredient, I will make it from scratch.  Soups, bread, dressings, you name it.  It’s my goal by the end of one month that all chemical preservatives will be purged from my menu.  All food will be made fresh and from scratch with very few small exceptions.

Welcome to the Single Ingredient Project.

In the meantime here is some info on some common food additives;  http://tinyurl.com/688824

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