A Fun Experiment

Last night, I finished baking some bread for this week. My personal favorite sandwich bread: Honey Whole Wheat Sourdough. Yum.

I enjoyed a slice toasted this morning with some pink grapefruit marmalade. I’ve noticed over the past few months, toast has quickly climbed up the charts to become one of my favorite comfort foods.
For dinner tonight, [...]

Dill-icious Potato Leek Soup

It’s fall! Or Autumn if you’re fancy. That means soup, at least to me it does. I could go on for a very long time about how much I love soup, but I won’t. Let’s just say it’s a staple for us. Tonight’s soup was loosely based on other soups I’ve made and eaten, but [...]

Oh Honey, Honey

For our bread needs this week, I wanted to make a regular old sandwich loaf, for Brent to eat with his eggs every morning. Yes, we live in a land of constant exotic variety here in the Monroe household. When I was looking through my mostly empty fridge and saw my sourdough starter sitting there [...]

Sourdough Rye, Oh My

Lame title I know, but moving on… This bread recipe is “Roberta’s Sourdough Rye” from The Laurel’s Kitchen Bread Book, and the starter is from the same book. Last night in preparation for today’s sourdough festivities I combined 3/4 cup of my starter with 1.5 cups of flour and 3/4 cup water and left it [...]