Roasted a little Sterling Silver top sirloin roast for dinner.  I love this cut of beef. Tender and full of flavour. Two ways to use up leftover roast beef for breakfast. Moe’s favourite is roast beef and au jus with scrambled eggs  and mine is a beef dip sandwich with a little homemade horseradish. Both…

My friend Pam owner of  Scoops Natural Foods mills flour for me. Sunday she milled me Canadian organic rye and whole wheat. I use the rye to feed my sourdough starters.  And yesterday I used the whole wheat in a batch of bread. Using my  HomeStyle White bread recipe I substituted 500g of whole wheat…

Fed my white starter on Monday night and used 140g of the discard to make a biga/preferment. 140g starter 220g flour 220g water Mixed together and leftover overnight to develop. In the morning, I added 300g of water 530g of flour to the biga.  Mixed by hand and left to rest (autolyze)  for 30 minutes….

Smoked Salmon Platter An easy dinner with home-made sourdough rye. One of Moe’s favourites  Poached Eggs on Toast And a cheese omelette again with rye toast. 

Fed both of my starters before leaving for work on Saturday. One with white flour and one with organic rye.  I used 80g of the rye discard to make a biga/preferment.  The preferment was also made with rye. The starters and  the rye preferment had more than doubled by the time I got home from work. Starters…

I had neglected my sourdough starter to the point of no return.   So I started over.  Twice. I didn’t like the first starter.  So started a new one Sunday (Jan. 24th), using fresh organic rye flour  that my friend Pam at  Scoops Natural Foods  milled for me on Saturday. I started two new starters, both with…