Thursday, March 20, 2014

Sorry it has been SO long!

Well, it has been a while since I have posted. This is partly because I have been busy, and partly because we live in a rural area with no available DSL or cable for internet service. We had mobile broadband, and that was fine until a little over a year ago when my stepson showed my husband the sites Imgur and Reddit, then our internet usage soared and we struggled to keep within our 10 gig limit. We upped that 12, but we still struggled. SO, keeping up with a blog was low on the priority list in terms of usage, especially since uploading pictures uses a lot. Recently, however, we switched to a new internet service that uses radio waves. You have to have line of sight to their transmitters and it is not mobile like our broadband service was, but it is unlimited usage, so we were sold. The packages vary in price depending on the speed you desire. It is costing less than out mobile broadband and we see that price as dropping soon too. Anyway, point is, now I have unlimited internet and hope to start posting more.

I have, for a while, been wanting to post about einkorn. This is wheat in its original genetic form before humans began breeding it with other grasses. About a year and a half ago I read an article in either Taste For Life or Delicious Living about the perils of modern wheat. I read the cheaters short version of Wheat Belly and decided he was taking things a little too far but the general gist of modern wheat being bad seemed all too terribly valid. I started buying einkorn flour and pastas and I wanted to write about my experiences baking with the flour as it can be a bit challenging. Since I did not have the available internet usage before to be uploading photos of my creations I started keeping them all in a folder and will hopefully now start creating posts. The problem is I have enough einkorn experiences and photos that I need to do several separate posts, which I guess is not really a problem, may help people zero in on what types of foods they are looking to make. So, look of these posts soon!