Category: Food

Laurel’s (Donna’s) Pizza

Laurel’s Amazing Pizza! Ingredient Amount Warm Water 1 Cup Package Yeast 1 pkg Sugar 1 TBSP Salt 1.5 tsp Oil 2 TBSP Flour 3 Cups Ingredient List...

Nevora’s Beef Burgandy

Four kinds of booze and a trip to braise in the oven makes this a dark, rich, and super flavorful stew. Pair with sourdough bread to mop up the last bits of the gravy....

Sourdough Bread – Pain de Campagne

Modified from the recipe in Ken Forkish’s book “Flour Water Salt Yeast“. The part I disliked most about the original recipe was how much starter I was throwing away, and that it used commercial yeast. If I’m going to bother with starters and levains, I don’t want to use...

Sweet Vidalia Onion Chicken Thighs

This is a super easy recipe that tastes great! Ingredients 4 Chicken Thighs, with excess fat trimmed off 1 Large Vidalia Onion Salt Pepper Thyme Orange Juice Deli Mustard Flour + Water Slurry (for optional gravy thickening) Chicken broth / bullion (maybe need it for sauce) Steps Trim the...

Starter Bread Experiment – April 14, 2019

Starter Bread Ingredients Timeline Day Before Day before woke up starter, fed twice 2018-04-13 – 2:00 PM Mix ingredients Stretch and fold Short rest Add salt that I forgot Stretch and fold 2018-04-13 – 2:20 PM Cover and rest 2018-04-13 – 4:10 PM Stretch and fold #3 Form ball...

Maime’s Sugar Cookies

1 C Sugar 1/2 C Soft Butter 1/2 C Sour Cream 1 1 /2 tsp Vanilla Optional 1 tsp lemon juice and/or zest 1 Egg 2 1/2 C Flour 1 tsp Baking Powder 1/2 tsp Baking Soda 1/2 tsp Salt Blend sugar and butter Add and mix in sour...

Snowball Cookies

1 cup butter softened 2/3 cup confectioners sugar (I use a little less because I don’t like them so sweet) 1teaspoon vanilla Blend above together until smooth Add: 2 Cups Flour, 1/8 teaspoon salt and blend until flour is completely mixed Mix in 1 cup finely chopped pecans Take...

Goulash / American Chop Suey

Ingredients: 1 pound ground beef. Almost an entire box of ziti (or your favorite pasta) 1 Can Tomato Soup 1 or 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped Ground Black Pepper Steps: Get a nice big pot of water boiling with some salt (if it tastes like tears then it’s probably...

Cardamom Bread

Ingredients: 8 Cups Flour 2 1/2 Cups Lukewarm Milk 2 pkg. Dry Yeast 1 Cup Sugar 1 Egg 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 Cup melted (salted) butter 3 teaspoons ground cardamom Chopped almonds Egg White (for wash) Steps: Dissolve yeast in 1/2 Cup of milk Mix remaining milk, sugar, egg,...