Last night’s bake. Sourdough, that had been in the fridge since Feb. 16th. Taken out yesterday morning and left to warm up and finish rising. Baked a pizza for dinner and four batards and one smaller baguette. Toasted the baguette this morning. Moe had one half topped with poached eggs and I had the other…

A few of my favourite meals this month. Sourdough bagels. I made two different sizes. The smallest are “cocktail” size served with cream cheese and smoked salmon . Topped with poppy seeds. And the larger size were topped with poppy seeds, sesame seeds and fried onions. Matt fried the onions because this is his favourite…

I’ve been playing around with making a small “preferment” using the method from Culinary Exploration. Philip uses just a small amount of discard, basically the scrapings in the bottom of the jar to make a small “preferment” or starter for his next batch of dough. I call it a mini biga. On Thursday, I added…

Matt pulled one of my sourdoughs out of the fridge Wednesday morning and used a little over 500g to make a large pizza and I shaped what was left into a little batard. I had also started another dough early in the morning with a small sourdough “biga” (made from the scrapings in the bottom…

Made a small “biga” yesterday morning using just the sourdough discard remnants in the bottom of a jar, added 55g of water and 55g of flour. Mixed, covered and left on the counter to rise. Added it to 600g of flour, salt and hydration was 70%. Made the dough last night before bed. Was left…

Escargot in mushroom caps. Served with slices of baguette to sop up the garlic butter.

Fed both of my starters Sunday morning. The original “Mother” fed with organic rye and her “Daughter”, fed with commercial bread flour. Both of these starters are 6 years old. I used 60g of the discard to make a biga. By the time I got home from work the starters were ready to go into…

Quick and easy work night dinner. I bought three racks of pork (loins) recently and cut a couple of chops off one of them. Got home from work about 5:15 tonight and we were eating at 5:55. Put a pot of water on to boil for my rice. I cook rice the same way I…

This is one of my favourite go to dinners. So easy to make, even on a work night.