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…

One of my favourite cookies. Made a batch to take to work last week. With chunks of canadied ginger. Great with a cup of tea. PRINT RECIPE Chewy Ginger Cookies Source: Calgary Herald News Paper You can leave the candied ginger out, if you wish, but I like the extra oomph it gives. Don’t skip…

I had a craving for an Apple Pie. Free Form hand-cut leaves for the top crust. Started with placing the leaves along the rim And finished in the centre. Print Recipe

This is a catch-up post for the  first two weeks of 2016. After this I am going to try and make daily posts, assuming I have something to share. January 10th Greek Chicken with potatoes and Greek Salad. Butterflied a whole chicken and rubbed it with lots of garlic, salt, pepper, oregano and the juice…

 It had been a while since I baked the French Laundry Apple Kuchen. I forgot how good it was. It was our New Year’s Day dessert. Very easy cake to bake. Served with a warm cream sauce.  APPLE KUCHEN Print Recipe Source: The French Laundry Cookbook – Thomas Keller Kuchen 6 tablespoons (3 oz.) unsalted…

Our tradition has always been to have lobster and champagne on New Year’s Eve.  Last year we decided to have local Dungeness crab instead. And this year, we decided to have crab, but to have it in a  Cioppino,  The crab weighed 2 1/4 pounds, and I added  Clams, Mussels, local spot prawns and  halibut…