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…

HOMESTYLE WHITE BREAD

This style of bread reminds me of the loaves of bread my grandmother always made. Makes wonderful dinner rolls too. Normally I make this by hand using the Autolyze Stretch and Fold Method. But decided since I was going to be making two – 1000g flour batches I decided to do in the Electrolux Magic…

LIGHT RYE SOURDOUGH

Light Rye Bread adapted from Bread Illustrated400 g of bread flour165 g stone ground rye flour12 g salt5 g actived dry yeast (Reduce yeast to 1 or 2 grams if making a sourdough version (or leave out all together), I like a bit of yeast for insurance) 265 g of water, room temperature40 g honey14…