Part 1: Sourdough Bread Recipe: First Feeding (Day 1)Part 3: Making Sourdough Bread: Baking Bread (Day 3)On the second day of making sourdough bread you will continue to feed and build up the starter. This recipe will make three loaves but if you want more than...
Part 2: Making Sourdough Bread: More Feedings (Day 2)Part 3: Making Sourdough Bread: Baking Bread (Day 3)Sourdough bread is made by the fermentation of flour by yeast found in nature. The first thing you need to make sourdough bread is an established sourdough starter...
Writing a weekly meal plan, especially if you've never done it before, can seem like a daunting task. Yes, it does take time to write one but the time spent is well worth the time and money you will save each week. If you know what you'll be cooking every day and you...
These St. Lucia buns are not authentically Swedish. For one I have no Swedish ancestry, but more importantly they don't contain saffron. It's not because I don't like saffron. I do! Saffron is fantastic in risotto and paella. To my surprise I even had just...
I like lemons. As I child I'd suck on pieces of lemon for fun. They're so lip-puckering delicious. So, I never understood the expression "when life gives you lemons, make lemonade!". One thing I don't like, however, is a mushy watermelon. It's such...
To make sourdough bread you need a chef. I'm not talking about a professional cook, but one of those would be nice too. The chef is a fully active sourdough starter (the mother culture) that you use to make your sourdough bread. A healthy starter is filled with wild...
Baking your own bread is a very sensual experience. By sensual I mean involving the senses: sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste. I started making my own bread using a bread machine. Then I attempted the occasional rustic loaf from The America's Test Kitchen...
Our Korean student has been having some difficulties adjusting to Canadian food. He's mastered the phrase "I don't like this" and balks when broccoli and cauliflower are served for dinner. Who can blame him! He's used to eating rice and Asian veggies three times a...
Sweetpea is already 7 months old. Her introduction to solid foods has been slow, partly because of her disinterest and partly because of a recent ear infection. But over the last week she's finally started to show interest. So the time has come, once...
Today we celebrated the life of St. Elizabeth of Hungary. Her life story has always inspired me.St. Elizabeth of Hungary is the patron of bakers - how neat is that! So I thought it would be fun to make some Hungarian rolls called beigli. These rolls are commonly...