I hadn’t fed my starters in a while. Maybe 6 or 8 weeks. So I fed them both, one with my regular bread flour and the other with the Organic Rye that I always use to feed. I used 55g of the discard from the rye fed starter and added it to 55g of water…

OXTAILS This is one of my favourite meals. In fact it always makes it on my list of top five. Oxtails. I often serve it over polenta or with spaetzle. And tonight over mashed potatoes. Thankfully Moe loves this dish too. Needless to say, this is his plate, hence the carrots. THAI RED CHICKEN CURRY…

Italian Sausage and Mushroom. Flammkuchen – a type of pizza. Flammkuchen===========(from Beyond Burgers and Bratwurst)NOTE:  I use a yeast dough crust.For dough:2 cups Flour2.5 Tbsp Oil2/3 cup Water1/4 tsp salt For toppings: 1 cup Crème Frâiche 1 onion (can be red or sweet onions)1 Tbsp Butter1/4lb BaconSalt & Pepper to taste1 clove Garlic Preheat the…

Last night’s pizza using the Jim Lahey method of baking the pizza under the boiler from start to finish. Forkish and Lahey both have oven methods for pizza and I’ve tried both. The Lahey’s method comes very close to the results I get using the Ooni and is almost as quick. Every oven is different…

Baked eight baguettes the other morning. Dough started the night before and left out on the counter from 9:00 PM until 4:00 AM next morning, for a seven hour fermentation. My regular basis recipe. 1000g of flour, 1 1/2 g of yeast, 30g of salt and 65% hydration. (Note: a teaspoon is 3g of yeast…

Made pizza a couple of times this month and rather than bake in the Ooni, I decided to use Jim Lahey’s method of baking in the oven, using the broiler. The stone is placed on one of the top racks just 4 or 5 inches from the broiler. Preheated at 550°F for at least 30…

I made my favourite soup for dinner. Caldo Tlalpeno – a Mexican Chicken Rice Soup earlier this month. When I haven’t made it in a while, I forget just how good this soup is. Basically a bowl of rich chicken broth with pieces of chicken breast with rice, garnished with fresh chopped tomato, onion, avocado,…

I decided to make puff pastry savory tarts for dinner one night. I started the quick version of puff pastry in the morning and it went into the fridge. Matt cooked the caramelized onions for me. All I had to do when I got home from work was, roll out the pastry, top with the…

I started a same day “Pizza Dough” early Thursday morning at 5:00 AM. Left out on the counter all day while I was at work and was ready to use by the time I got home at 5:30. Divided the dough into three pieces. One that was 450g for Matt and two at 235g each….

A few “cooks & bakes” first half of the month. Buttermilk Biscuits Roast Rack of Pork. Homemade Sourdough Rye Bread Sliced Smoked Salmon on homemade sourdough rye. Potato Leek Soup for breakfast with toasted baguette. Roast chicken dinner.