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…

Monday was one of those days when we were staying put.  It had been snowing since Sunday and wasn’t stopping any time soon. So Monday became another Sourdough bake day. I fed the starter again Sunday night and made a biga.  Because I have enough bread in the freezer, I’ve decided to make some fun…

Since I had an unexpected snow day, on Friday, I decided I might as well bake.  Fed my sourdough starter again  and I used the discard to make another batch of sourdough bread.   Six loaves. I shaped all of these loaves so that they could  be  started in the Cusinart Steam Oven on the…

My work day turned into a snow day.  So I fed my starter again and used the discard to make another batch of sourdough. And I had a small 500g batch of sourdough  that I had made yesterday with the intention of making pizza on Saturday,  so I decided to make them tonight instead.  Had…

First bake using  my new  Sourdough Starter. (See  New Sourdough Starter Post) I made a biga Tuesday night using just 60g of discard  from Stage Two of feeding my new Starter. Wednesday morning  I added another 50 gs of discard from the next feed.  And because this was a new starter I also added just…

Once again I neglected my sourdough starter, and rather than revive it, I tossed it out when I was cleaning out my fridge recently. If truth be told, as much as I like having my own starter and being able to bake sourdough bread, I really don’t like sourdough bread. Never have. But Moe and…