Last night’s dinner. Homemade Halibut Fish and Chips

I recently order some Herbs and Spices from The Silk Road Spice Merchant I always have trouble finding dried green peppercorns so I decided to look for a place in Canada to  order from. The Silk Road is in Calagry, just one Province over  and besides the fact that they carried Green Peppercorns, I liked that…

I used half a 1000g batch of sourdough in  the pizzas posted below and the remainder went into two Sourdough Ciabattas. The one on the right was baked in the Cuisinart Steam Oven on the Bread Steam setting.  The one that is sliced was baked in the Oster. It is slightly over-browned because I almost…

Baked two pizzas Sunday night. Sourdough crusts. I fed my starter on Saturday morning and made a Biga. Saturday evening, the starter went back into the fridge and the Biga went into a 1000g batch of dough. Dough went into the fridge for a cold fermentation. Matt took the dough out of the fridge early…

We had Thai Green Curry with chicken legs for dinner Friday night.  Not a great photo, but I know it was really good because  Moe wanted the leftovers for breakfast.

I used up the remaining Smoked Salmon and made Moe  Eggs Benedict with Hollandiase Sauce  for breakfast. 

We had lunch out Tuesday so neither of us was in the mood for a big dinner… So……I made up a smoked salmon platter with homemade sourdough rye. The smoked salmon was wonderful. Scottish Atlantic Salmon oak smoked. Wednesday morning I made Potato Latkes with Smoked Salmon

(1000g Dough at 68% Hydration) Sourdough Rye Bread  Biga/Preferment 60g to 80g sourdough starter 220g Bread flour 220g water Mix together and leave for 6 to 8 hours or until almost tripled. Add biga to: 540g bread flour 175g rye flour 75g of whole wheat 480g water  15g cocoa (for a darker rye) 40g molasses…

Duck Breast with Red Currants and Port Sauce ============================================ Adapted from Spar UK 2 Duck Breasts 1 minced garlic clove fresh thyme salt pepper olive oil Sauce 1 tablespoon butter 1 small minced shallot 2 teaspoons fresh minced thyme 3/4 cup of fresh or frozen red currants 3/4  cup of chicken broth 1 tablespoon of…

Spread over two days. We had our main course on February 14th. I made Moe one of his favourite meals.   Chicken Breasts Perigord This recipe comes from Lucy Waverman’s 1989 Seasonal Canadian Cookbook I’ve been making this dish for Moe for 30 years. A mushroom Duxelles is stuffed under the skin of boneless chicken…