When I was a kid, my dad told my mom about these bacon cheese buns he ate at the cafeteria at work. He said how delicious they were and told my mom what all was in them. She recreated the recipe using her own bread dough and rolling them out cinnamon bun style, but instead…
Month: February 2024
Broccoli Soup
We love hearty soups and this broccoli soup is great on a cold winter’s day! It is packed full of vegetables. This soup is like potato soup meets broccoli soup and has a rich broccoli flavor that goes great with bread biscuits or our favorite quick and easy garlic bread. We enjoy soups because a…
Chocolate No-Knead Sourdough Bread
I quite enjoy sourdough in an array of flavors! My daughter ‘L’ decided to switch up the sourdough starter a bit! She made chocolate sourdough by adding some of the main sourdough to a separate jar, and fed it for a week with flour and cocoa dissolved in water. The sourdough did take on the…
Beef Stew with Dumplings
I love hearty stews in the colder months, especially with fluffy dumplings and a yummy bread or biscuit served alongside. A hearty stew is always a great way to fill hungry bellies, not to mention an easy way to stretch a few ingredients. You can start out with just an onion, a bit of celery…
Cinnamon Raisin Overnight Sourdough Bread
I have had so much sourdough starter that it’s been bread week here! We have made a simple overnight sourdough bread, traditional and chocolate and now my favorite — cinnamon raisin! Cinnamon Raisin Bread is one of my favorites and it’s even better as sourdough! This bread has a chewy crumb, crisp crust, slight sourdough…
Simple Overnight Sourdough Bread
I used to buy sourdough bread from the store many years ago because I thought it was authentic and too hard to make at home… until I worked in a bakery and learned there’s nothing authentic about their sourdough. That sourdough flavor comes from different additives and flavourings added to flour to produce that sourdough…
Traditional Sourdough Bread
Sourdough was a staple for many settlers and even dates back to 1500BCE. Sourdough was a staple on the wagon trail and during the Klondike Gold Rush. Sourdough was easy to transport and bread could be made without traditional yeast, such as barm, also known as brewers yeast or yeast cakes. Pieces of sourdough dough,…
