SOURDOUGH STARTER AND SOURDOUGH BREAD After the kitchen renovation, and long months without any refrigeration or power, I was certain that Sedrick-the-Sourdough-Starter was gummy history. I couldn’t interest him in anything; nothing brought a rise out of the boy. I couldn’t stand the idea of chucking him out though, so I stuck a bit of…
Category: Bread
How-To Make Celeriac and Apple Soup
The Frugal Feeding’s recent post about celeriac soup reminded me that I haven’t made this bowl of fragrant warm comfort in a long time. Frugal’s soup looks wonderfully rich and creamy. Mine benefits from a subtle hint of sweetness and tartness from the apple. Some crumbled bacon also goes nicely on top with the toasted…
International Scone Week
It’s International Scone Week, and here’s my favourite scone recipe.
English Muffin Bread
RANDOM RECIPE CHALLENGE 14: English Muffin Bread This is my first post for the Belleau Kitchen Random Recipe Challenge, and after counting out 12 cookery books, I started again at the beginning and continued counting another 5. Most of my cookery books are packed away; I only keep my favourite and most useful ones within…
Dan Lepard’s Superwraps
Short and Tweet Baking Challenge: Superwraps I’ve seen the word “quinoa” before but never realised that this week’s baking challenge would be a lesson in pronunciation. It’s not kwin-oha, which is how I’ve always pronounced it. It’s “keen-wah”. I carefully sounded it out several times in my head, hoping it would stick. It didn’t. I…
How-To Line a Tin with Non-Stick Baking Parchment
As I watched my husband on the verge of throwing the Christmas tree stand across the living room last night because he couldn’t figure out how to fit the bits and pieces together …. it occurred to me that I knew this frustration all too well. I’ve wasted so much energy trying to make non-stick…
Lemonade Scones
Yes, qums. Qumbs even. Or qumby. Like “Let’s see its qum structure, Misky! Oh, nice qums; quite full of holes. Qums are good; the qumbier the better.”
Wonderfully Wonky Pizza
Yippee-ki-yeah! Time to saunter down the make-it-from-scratch pizza trail, and discover that buying a home-delivery one is …
The Chalk Hills Kitchen 