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Author Archives: Keep It Simple Engineer

Larry Johnson

Retired engineer/computer consultant

Larry’s Jalapeño Cheese Bread — Part 4

This is Part 4 of a 4-part series on Larry’s Jalapeño Cheese Bread. Act III — The Bread Are you ready? Before you make the bread, better yet, the night before, gather the cheese, jalapeños and sherry. You can substitute dry vermouth, but do not use cooking sherry (it contains salt which will interfere with the yeast). [...]
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How To Dehydrate Cheese

This is part 3 of a 4-part series on Larry’s Jalapeño Cheese Bread. Act II — The Cheese I grate my own, but then I’m retired and often bored. Probably easier just to get cheese already shredded. I tried shredding cheese in my trusty Cuisinart®, but with the mild cheddar I use, it didn’t work [...]
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How To Dehydrate Jalapeños

This is Part 2 of a 4-part series on Larry’s Jalapeño Cheese Bread. Act I — The Jalapeño ¡Ay, caramba! ¡Ariba, ariba, andalay! You can get these in cans, but I like the food grade plastic bottles. Just dump the pequeñas jalapeños nacho in a strainer and wash them. ¡Caliente Caliente! Hot, hot! One or two jalapeños aren’t [...]
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Larry’s Jalapeño Cheese Bread For The Grill

Every Thursday afternoon (except on Superbowl Sunday), a group of very nice folks gathers together behind a local neighborhood pub, fire up a Weber® grill, bring out their contributions, usually sausages, marinated meats, shrimp and other delights for the fire. I bring Jalapeño-cheese sourdough bread (and sometimes smoked-pepper sourdough). If I don’t [...]
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Onion and Pepper Variations on Larry’s Sourdough

Remember Larry’s sourdough bread method? In case you missed it, Larry, the Keep It Simple Engineer, has got sourdough bread making down to a science. He shared a four-part series showing how he does it. Larry mentioned in the introduction that he does a jalapeño-cheese variation, which I’m still waiting to see. (Hint-hint, Larry. [...]
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