I took pictures of this batch of dough for a FB friend that I shared my starter with. I fed my sourdough starter Thursday night and made two levains, with 55g of discard in each of them. Left the starter and the two levains on the counter overnight and in the morning, the starter…
Baguettes
Yesterday’s bake. Fed my starters Thursday and just tossed 80g of the discard into: 1000g of flour. 660g water (66% hydration) 1g of yeast (basically just a pinch) 15g of salt. I have had to reduce the salt in our breads due to Moe’s reduced sodium diet, so instead of the 30gs I used in…
JANUARY 2024 – WEEK THREE
MONDAY JANUARY 15TH Sourdough Bake. Dough started on Saturday with a Pate Fermentee and left in the fridge until last night. Baked this morning. Two batards baked under the Spun Iron Cloche and the boule baked in a cast iron dutch oven. Dinner Keeping with eating more fish… I made Moe Sole Meuniere for dinner…
JANUARY 2024 – WEEK TWO
Monday January 8th Baked a small Margherita Pizza for Moe and I to share. Dough had been in the fridge since Friday (Jan.5th) Moe wanted something sweet so I made him an Apple Kuchen. What is nice about this cake is that as long as you have all the ingredients, it takes no time to…
JANUARY 2024 – WEEK ONE
First dinner of 2024!!! We started the New Year off with an old favourite. Chateaubriand for Two. With Parisienne potatoes, steamed green beans, cauliflower and carrots for Moe, sautéed mushrooms and homemade Bearnaise sauce. January 2nd, 2024 I was intended to make a Raspberry Cobbler with Vanilla Cream sauce, for New Years Day, but didn’t…
END OF THE YEAR POST
Another year comes to an end. Can’t believe how fast this year as gone. Going to try and be better about posting regularly to my blog in 2024. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We finished 2023 with lobster, which has been a traditional New Years Even dinner for almost 50 years, with very little variation. This year I went with…
CHRISTMAS DINNER
I roasted a duck for our Christmas dinner. Using Ina Garten’s recipe. Which I have used a number of times before. Sides were potatoes roasted in duck fat, braised red cabbage and green beans. Roast Duck Roast DuckIna Garten’s Recipe 2 (5 to 5 1/2 pounds each) ducks, innards and wing tips removed6 quarts chicken brothKosher…
CHRISTMAS EVE
Christmas Eve dinner. Our tradition – French Canadian Tourtiere. Filling made before I left for work on Sunday. Also made the All Butter Pastry. Didn’t take long to get the pastry rolled out and the pie ready for the oven. Moe had his with both gravy and the Chile Sauce. I made for him earlier…
HOMEMADE CHILE SAUCE
Christmas Eve is approaching fast and I still needed to make the chile sauce that Moe loves to have on his Tourtiere. So yesterday I put a pot of the sauce on to simmer. The process takes about 6 hours from start to finish. The recipe I use is one that was shared by a…
CRUSTY ENGLISH BLOOMER BREAD
Crusty English Bloomer Bread. This is new to me. I went searching for a recipe for this bread and found a couple. I went with two different recipes. One using a pate fermentee and my regular bread flour and one that was a Whole Wheat version. The first batch was a 1000g of flour, and…
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