January 24th, 2010 After making more marmalade for the January Can Jam and finding some jars from last year in the pantry, I’ve devised some ways to use it up in other recipes. I don’t eat much jam on toast and BarBBQ Bill doesn’t care for it at all “straight”.
Make a dipping sauce for egg rolls or a [...]
January 3rd, 2010 BarBBQ Bill requested cinnamon raisin bread.
Well, OK…but I don’t buy raisins because he says he doesn’t like them. Now he wants them in his bread. Go figure.
But I do have these. Dried Balaton cherries from Cherry Republic (they claim they are the world headquarters for all things cherry, and I’m not going to argue).
Now I [...]
December 6th, 2009 BarBBQ Bill decided he wanted rye bread. He was making borscht (beet soup) and a fresh loaf of rye bread to go with it just seemed the right thing to do.
He didn’t want just any old rye bread. He wanted sourdough rye.
I’m gonna take a whack at it (even though I have no clue how [...]
December 4th, 2009 BarBBQ Bill asked me to make some sourdough rolls. Easier said than done.
First, you need a sourdough starter.
I’ve never had much luck with starting my own, so I bought some from King Arthur Flour.
Add 1/4 cup lukewarm water to the jar containing the starter, and stir it around to help get the starter out. Then [...]
July 26th, 2009 It’s that time of year when the neighbors lock their doors and pull down the shades when they spot me approaching with an armload of zucchini. I thought we had three or four to use, but no…we had 27 (yes, TWENTY-SEVEN!) assorted zucchini/summer squashes.
So, how to use them up? They don’t freeze well, and we [...]
