Hello All, Wayne AKA the Mad Food Scientist here.This time around, I am exploring agua fresca, a refreshing drink I’d never heard of before a week or so ago. A coworker gave me her family’s recipe for Watermelon Chia agua fresca.The idea intrigued me, but I wasn’t feeling watermelon...

This afternoon, I introduced the six month old kitties to the rest of the house. I’ve kept the kitterlings in my bedroom since I brought them home because I was treating an ulcerated cornea in Cookie’s right eye. Cornea ulcerations are something I’m quite familiar with since my left...

Hello All, Wayne AKA the Mad Food Scientist here.I’m writing the following to, so to speak, hold my feet to the fire.I’m here to write down some of the future posts that I have in the pipeline.Homemade falafel, hummus, tzatziki, apple taquitos, pierogi, agua fresca, churros, popcicles, pickled beets,...

On 07/02/2023 the scleral bandage lens in my right eye came out. This was bad, really, really bad. I have have a keratoprothetic installed in my right eye since 2010 and the contact lens needs to be in place to keep the tissue around the installation from melting. Which,...

Hello, Wayne AKA the Mad Food Scientist here.This post is not about anything that happened within the DCL.On Friday, 16 June, 2023, I adopted a five month old bonded pair of brown and white tabby cats.INTRODUCING:Milk: a male domestic shorthair. Cookie: a female domestic shorthair. These two have discovered...

    Hello, Wayne AKA the Mad Food Scientist here.It’s been a bit since last I posted.This is what I would call a building block post.What I’m making is building blocks for other things.In this case aquafaba and navy beans. Aquafaba is handy for replacing egg whites, vegan whipped cream, as a binder, and as...

Hello, Wayne AKA the Mad Food Scientist here.This past weekend I was busy in the DCL.I made navy bean tofu, navy beans, aquafaba, vegan mayonnaise, pumpkin seed tofu, pumpkin seed milk, and vegan bacon.I cooked the navy beans to produce aquafaba so I could make vegan mayonnaise. I had it in the back...

Hello, Wayne AKA the Mad Food Scientist here.This is another slightly different post. It’s not so much an experiment as a telling of a tale.There were a lot of moving parts. I had decided that I wanted to make pumpkin seed tofu so that I could make vegan bacon. Then I got...

Hello, Wayne AKA the Mad Food Scientist here.Today’s post is a first of its kind. It’s based on a question from a reader. Monica, a  friend, posed a question to me. Monica asked me if  I make almond milk. I told Monica that I hadn’t made almond milk, as of yet, but that...

Hello, Wayne AKA the Mad Food Scientist here.I’ve mentioned the subject of today’s post in a couple posts already. I decided it needed a standalone post of it’s own. What am I talking about? Homemade substitutes for buttermilk. Let’s face it, who keeps buttermilk at home? Who can afford...