Multi-style cooking

Multigrain baguettes sliced and served on an appetizer platter. So, for some odd reason MaMa got a hankerin' to make multigrain baguettes.  When she gets it in her head to do something, you know it's gonna happen.  So we now have baguettes at our house.  It probably had something to do with the really nice salami she was given when she attended the International Food Bloggers Conference a little while back.  It was a perfect pairing for this flavorful artisan type bread. Unfortunately it...Read Full Story

Welcome to the second part of my sourdough baking series. This is the part where you make and bake amazing, nibble-worthy loaves of bread. Yesterday, I made the sponge for my bread using my sourdough starter . I let it sit overnight, covered, to develop flavor. Today, I used that sponge to bake dense and chewy loaves of sourdough bread. The method couldn’t be simpler. Basically, I added a little salt and more flour the the sponge, then kneaded it into a stiff dough and formed it into...Read Full Story

While rummaging through my kitchen cabinet the other day, I came across this beautiful slip decorated redware bowl. The bowl measures 8 inches across the top and is 2.25 inches tall. The foot measures 3 inches. Every time I come across the bowl in my cabinet I remember Gary's grandmother. My mother and I discovered this bowl in her apartment when we packed her possessions when she passed away at 98 quite a few years ago. When I turned the bowl over, I saw, Made in Finland , stamped into the...Read Full Story

There’s nothing like the smell of fresh baking bread. Make that bread sourdough, and I’m in heaven. The sourdough recipe that I start below produces a moist, flavorful, and chewy bread that can stand toe-to-toe with some of the best loaves out there. Tonight, I’ll talk a little bit about sourdough starter and how to make a sponge. Tomorrow, Part 2 of this article will show you how to turn that sponge into bread. It all starts with the starter So, what gives sourdough bread its fabulous...Read Full Story

Stir Fried Tomato Slice Recipe Introduction: I have come to love tomatoes more and more ever since I attended the lecture that was made by a nutritionist at the fitness center. Tomato is a vegetable that we all know and like. It can be eaten raw or cooked. It can be cooked into soups and processed into paste. According to the nutritionist, tomato is a vegetable that benefits men the best. She warned the women in the audience who should observe their husband urinating. When they see...Read Full Story