Measure Free News

Uncovering the Mysteries of Croissants

14 October 2011 by Jean Johnson
First try ever on croissants. Did whole wheat too and they also turned out. Stay tuned as I refine my skills over the months and do some videos and measure free ratio-style recipes.

Merry Howdy: Jean Reads You Kitchen Stories

5 December 2010 by Jean Johnson
I think each of these readings is 3 minutes or so. Hope you have time for a listen. Merry Howdy, Jean if you're inspired--and I hope you are--you click over to the cookbooks page and take advantage of the December sale--all told with the free domestic shipping it's a 20 percent ...

Collector’s Items? Heck Yeah!

2 December 2010 by Jean Johnson
The measure free trilogy books will surely become collectible. After all, Cooking Beyond Measure and Hippie Kitchen are the first cookbooks without measurements written in the United States in over a century. And when Grow Your Own Comes out next year, it will be the third. More, these books are ...

Little Aunties Pie Class, A Photo and Video Essay

16 May 2010 by Jean Johnson
Our Cooking with the Little Aunties Class turned out to have little uncles and big aunties as well as younger girls. That was fine by me because great people cluster around the Stevenson Community Library up the Columbia from Portland on the Washington side of the river. Yes, indeed. A good ...

Crazy Mama Mothers Day Sale

20 April 2010 by Jean Johnson
We've announced the Crazy Mama Sale to our blog subscribers and facebook friends, so now's time to clue others in. We know the economy’s tight, so here’s our best shot—offered because we’re new kids on the block with a radical measure free message. We’re holding a two-fer sale on ...

Froggie Wedding of the Year

28 March 2010 by Jean Johnson
Celeste, our measure free cover girl, has finally tied the knot with Mr. HH! It was a lovely Friday evening froggie wedding. We're expecting it to get scooped by all the society pages--and for book sales to be brisk. Just remember, you saw it here first! PS--If you're wondering why the frog ...

Tostada Salad

22 March 2010 by Jean Johnson
Finally overcame some serious inertia and got started on the third in the measurefree trilogy: Grow Your Own: From the Garden to the Table. So you can say you saw it here first. Also a variation on the theme in a video at the bottom of this post. "Tostadas: So ...

On The Cook Counts Too

21 March 2010 by Jean Johnson
You heard it here first. Straight from Hippie Kitchen, p. 44. On the Cook Counts Too— Fussing with cooking vegetables by the singleton is something I do less often than not. That’s because when you’re going for a quick meal, it’s easier to get a bunch of veggies onto the heat ...

Garlic Memories from Hippie Kitchen

18 March 2010 by Jean Johnson
It's an exciting time to be on the American culinary journey. We've certainly had twists and turns and all manner of steep grades, with the path getting downright mired in some pretty strange places over the years. Think: SAD (Standard American Diet) Here's a bit of my own story that I ...

Hippie Kitchen Upstaging Her Older Sister

23 December 2009 by Jean Johnson
Isn't that just the way. The first does yeoman service path breaking, and then the second comes along with her flirty name and catchy clothes and skates all the way to the bank. Speaking of the bank, though, both numero uno, Cooking Beyond Measure, and Ms. Hippie Kitchen are both ...