TOURTIERE – A CHRISTMAS EVE TRADITION Moe and I have been together going on 52 years. It has always been our Christmas Eve tradition to have Tourtiere as was his French Canadian tradition growing up. Ready for the oven Just out of the oven. Served with homemade Chile Sauce. Canned seven jars of Chile Sauce….
JULIA’S STUFFED PEPPERS
This is a recipe that I have no been making for more than 40 years. I haven’t made it in years so it never made it on to the blog. I pulled it up in my files today and decided to add it now to the blog with the intentions of making it again one…
BLUEBERRY COBBLER
August 12th Moe wanted something sweet this morning so I made him a blueberry cobbler and topped with a warm vanilla caramel sauce. He had it for lunch. Blackberry Cobbler I’ve made this recipe using blueberries and raspberries too. Source:Betty Crocker Website1/2 cup butter1 cup white sugar1 cup flour3/4 cup of milk2 teaspoons vanilla1-1/2 teaspoons…
MINCE AND TATTIES
August 10th. I had intended to make Shepherd’s Pie for dinner last night. But I was tired and it was too hot to want to turn the oven on. Soooo…..instead I made Mince and Tatties for Moe’ s breakfast and I’m going to take the same to work for lunch. Everything the same as Shepherds…
SOURDOUGH WITH SOURDOUGH BIGA
Second dough that was made with a sourdough biga on Friday August 2nd, was baked Wednesday August 7th early morning after a 96 hour cold fermentation. Dough was taken out of the fridge on Tuesday night around 8 and was ready to start shaping after 3:00 AM. Sliced for breakfast. Moe just wanted toasted baguette…
CHICKEN AND LOTS OF IT
Good deal on roasting chickens yesterday at my favourite grocery store. Buy one get one free. Chickens all weighed over four pounds with an average cost of $22 to $24 each. So for less than $48 I got four big chickens. I broke them down this morning. Left one whole for roasting or maybe smoking…
TOO HOT TO COOK IN THE HOUSE
Been making a few meals on the grill this past week because it is too hot to turn on the oven even with the air conditioner on. Dinner one night. Filet Mignon cooked on the grill along with the zucchini. The potatoes were roasted in a cast iron skillet on the grill and the mushrooms…
PAN ROASTED HALIBUT
We hadn’t had halibut recently so picked up fresh halibut filets for dinner recently. Started on the stove to sear and then transferred to the oven and pan roasted and served with roasted potatoes and steamed asparagus with butter and parmesan. And a lovely Italian Chardonnay.
BAGUETTES, PIZZA AND MEATBALLS
Two doughs made on Monday, one using a sourdough Biga and one with just sourdough discard. Divided the dough made with the Biga into one 550g gram piece and one 350g piece. Both destined for pizzas. Matt made his pizza Tuesday. The 350g of dough went into the fridge with the remaining 1200g of dough…
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