So now that you know how to make your own Fresh Egg Pasta, you can get on with Operation Tortellini and start stuffing delicious vegetables into divine dough! As a very first hint, if you’re going to make stuffed pasta, make the filling first so it can rest while you make the pasta. And if […]
I teamed up with Louise, and we spent a day implementing Operation Tortellini — a plan to get fresh stuffed pasta.
Coming up is the birthday of one of my favourite people in the whole world: Pria! You may remember Pria from previous blogventures such as our trip to San Miguel de Allende in Mexico, or from one of my favourite recipes: her Rajma (Red Kidney Bean Curry)! She’s also the mum of my best friend, […]
Oh, I have been waiting for a month to try this Daring Cooks’ challenge and share it: Pierogi! The August 2010 Daring Cooks’ Challenge was hosted by LizG of Bits n’ Bites and Anula of Anula’s Kitchen. They chose to challenge Daring Cooks to make pierogi from scratch and an optional challenge to provide one […]
After much reading of bread books, and research on The Fresh Loaf forums, I have come up with a system for feeding my two pets sourdough starters living with me, so that they can feed me with bread! I have two sourdough starters right now, a whole wheat starter that I built up from scratch, […]
I have a mission for Saturday: 3 white sourdough loaves, to be cut into cubes and served at a wine-tasting. As my starter (Fluffy) is whole wheat, I needed to convert some of Fluffy to a white starter, or start from scratch. Seeing as starters take about a week to get going from scratch, I […]
My current fascination obsession with sourdough began earlier this year, when I picked up a copy of Peter Reinhart’s Whole Grain Breads: New Techniques, Extraordinary Flavor. As a novice bread baker, I had attempted a few (surprisingly beautiful and delicious) of Jim Lahey’s No-Knead Bread loaves in various combinations of white and whole wheat flours, […]
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