I bought a smoker two years ago and have only used a few times. Decided since I wasn’t working today, I would do two things, a whole double chicken breast and wings. The wings became dinner along with my Caesar Salad that I have been making for 46 years. Moe loves this salad. Homemade dressing…

A quick and easy “Tapa” night. Moe is still working on organizing my cookbooks. And my goal is to make a new recipe or at least try, to make a new recipe each week, pulled from one of my cookbooks. Both of these recipes came out of “tapas” by Susanna Tee. Matt made the Spanish…

I had a craving for butter tarts. It had been a while since I baked a batch. I adjusted my regular recipe and then doubled it. Butter Tarts 1 cup melted butter1 cup firmly packed brown sugar1 cup real maple syrup2 eggs1 tablespoon vanillapinch salt Mix all of the ingredients together in a large glass…

Moe has been cataloging all my cookbooks, and organizing them for me. My intention is to make at least one new recipe a week, out of a different cookbook. Not sure how well I will execute my intention, but I started with dinner tonight. Many of the cookbooks I have acquired over the last few…

350g bread flour350g whole wheat flour100g of mini starter8g of salt1/2 g of yeast (optional)300g of water, plus the water that the seedssoaked in. Combination of seeds.black sesamepoppyseedsBrown flax seedspumpkin seeds7 grain mixrolled oats Mix the seeds with water to cover at least 6 hours prior to makingthe dough. Mix the flours, starter, salt and…

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…