Bless My Heart I Married A Yankee

 I will update this with the entire procedure in the next few days.  In the meantime enjoy some bread porn.  Imagine baking a loaf in your oven.  Smelling the aroma of fresh bread in your home.  Doesn't that sound delicious and yummy? We have really been into making bread for several months now.  I mean it started this past fall.  Wade gave me another bit of his sourdough starter and we kind of went from there. A nice hot loaf of bread out of the oven on a cool or cold night, nothing beats that. Well, in all fairness I have to say this recipe was perfected by Wade.  We only use his measurements and a slap-and-fold method.  Which was a YouTube video Wade shared with us.  We also retard it in the fridge, well this winter we just left it outside when it was cool enough.   Ingredients 375 grams of distilled water 100 grams of active sourdough starter 500 grams of bread flour 10 grams of fine sea salt This is a recipe we make togeth...

Right now all I have are some pictures to tantalize your tastebuds.  These are as good as any store-bought bagel you could find.  They are so easy and simply amazing to eat.  Scott made fun of the jalapeno cheddar ones but then he found they are the BEST ones!!!   For now, enjoy the pictures.  I will get the recipe up soon.  

UPDATED  will get pictures up soon. Oh my goodness, focaccia is so very good.  Hot right out of the oven with a nice EVOO dipping sauce and this is one of my favorite recipes to make with my discarded sourdough.  There are tons of awesome discard recipes.  I mean who likes to waste sourdough?  I do not!!!  It is so easy and overall a quick and simple bread to make.  You can top it with almost anything.  My normal toppings are course kosher salt, homemade tomato powder, fresh rosemary from my herb garden, garlic powder, and olive oil. QUICK AND EASY SOURDOUGH FOCACCIA 1-3/4 cup bread flour 1 cup unbleached flour 2 tsp kosher salt 1 teaspoon quick yeast 1-1/4 cup warm distilled water 2/3 cup discard sourdough starter DIRECTIONS Add the discarded sourdough starter to the distilled water in a bowl.  Mix together.  Add salt, quick yeast, and both flours to the wet ingredients in the bowl.  I do not knead this recipe by hand or with my st...

It is already hot where we live and May just started!  In the warmer months, it is hard for us to eat a hot heavy meal.  I try to come up with lighter cooler-style foods and snacks for us to enjoy.  This one hit the spot nicely. I also make a Shrimp style snack using almost the exact same ingredients.   1 large cucumber 1 avocado 1 jalapeno 2 tablespoons fresh cilantro 2 garlic cloves minced 1/4 cup sour cream or Greek yogurt 1 - 1/2 tsp lemon juice 1 - 1/2 tsp lime juice 1/4 tsp ground cumin 1/4 tsp salt We serve this with tortilla chips or over broiled fish.   So it can be a snack or an addition to your meal.  Happy Monday!!