Another year comes to an end. Can’t believe how fast this year as gone. Going to try and be better about posting regularly to my blog in 2024. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We finished 2023 with lobster, which has been a traditional New Years Even dinner for almost 50 years, with very little variation. This year I went with…
CHRISTMAS DINNER
I roasted a duck for our Christmas dinner. Using Ina Garten’s recipe. Which I have used a number of times before. Sides were potatoes roasted in duck fat, braised red cabbage and green beans. Roast Duck Roast DuckIna Garten’s Recipe 2 (5 to 5 1/2 pounds each) ducks, innards and wing tips removed6 quarts chicken brothKosher…
CHRISTMAS EVE
Christmas Eve dinner. Our tradition – French Canadian Tourtiere. Filling made before I left for work on Sunday. Also made the All Butter Pastry. Didn’t take long to get the pastry rolled out and the pie ready for the oven. Moe had his with both gravy and the Chile Sauce. I made for him earlier…
HOMEMADE CHILE SAUCE
Christmas Eve is approaching fast and I still needed to make the chile sauce that Moe loves to have on his Tourtiere. So yesterday I put a pot of the sauce on to simmer. The process takes about 6 hours from start to finish. The recipe I use is one that was shared by a…
CRUSTY ENGLISH BLOOMER BREAD
Crusty English Bloomer Bread. This is new to me. I went searching for a recipe for this bread and found a couple. I went with two different recipes. One using a pate fermentee and my regular bread flour and one that was a Whole Wheat version. The first batch was a 1000g of flour, and…
HOMESTYLE WHITE BREAD
This style of bread reminds me of the loaves of bread my grandmother always made. Makes wonderful dinner rolls too. Normally I make this by hand using the Autolyze Stretch and Fold Method. But decided since I was going to be making two – 1000g flour batches I decided to do in the Electrolux Magic…
LIGHT RYE SOURDOUGH
Light Rye Bread adapted from Bread Illustrated400 g of bread flour165 g stone ground rye flour12 g salt5 g actived dry yeast (Reduce yeast to 1 or 2 grams if making a sourdough version (or leave out all together), I like a bit of yeast for insurance) 265 g of water, room temperature40 g honey14…
Continuation of Low Salt Diet
All of our meals for most of the last month have been low salt. It really is an eye opener when you start really paying attention to the amount of salt one eats. Our recent meals since my last post in no particular order: Halibut pan roasted and finished in the oven. Served over rappini…
NEW LOW SALT DIET
Moe had blood work done recently that indicated some kidney issues. SO…… About 10 days ago we went on a reduced sodium diet. I couldn’t find any salt substitute that I found acceptable. So had to settle for Mrs. Dash’s Garlic and Herb. Not great but would do until the order I placed with Hot…
MARGHERITA PIZZA
Pizza tonight. Started a 500g batch of dough early this morning and left it out on the counter all day. Was ready to use by the time I got home from work just before 5:30. Divided into two pieces, one at 500g for Matt who baked a 17″ pizza on a stone in a 550°F…
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