What are you having for dinner? (wanna share your recipe?)

[blackemerald1]

Keeping a sourdough starter going is a little like having a beloved pet

Yes!! I've finally someone who gets it too ((hug)) grin... :) :hilarious: I know, though, there are other issues at hand. However I feel like I've become a scientist and just discovered it. Perhaps I'm having delusions of grandeur with it all. But it's such fun too. I'm still awed by the bubbles and how it grows. I feel responsible for this wild yeast thingy. And it smells so nice. I'm going to name it - but I need to think of something appropriate.

Anyway, I'm eating my bread and I'm quietly pleased it is edible btw :rolleyes:

My critique is I think it's a little bit too heavy in terms of texture but I think I know what I did wrong and potentially my starter might not have been mature enough too. So I'm feeding her (she's a woman btw - why do most starters have male names?? huh!) up so when I make my next loaf at the end of the week, she's stronger. Also I cooked it in my dutch oven but it needed another five minutes at the initial higher temp. And I've seen a yt video on how to make a loaf in the stand mixer rather than putting it onto the bench each time when building the structure into it. Oh look at me saying such things... structure... lol

 

[Mee]

Lol @blackemerald1 , I am no good with sourdough - each time I have tried something has happened. The most successful time I had the loaf rising in a bowl and then found BOTH my cats sleeping in the bowl with the dough ??. But DH IS and kept his starter going for ages. It had lots of different flour varieties in it because he loves experimenting- and that added to the flavour, but I like a simple French type white best. It’s a shame we don’t have a starter now - it would keep us going while he is off work !

Your loaf REALLY is pretty! And a heavier loaf is just ‘rustic’. ;)

 

[Teasel]

then found BOTH my cats sleeping in the bowl with the dough ??.

Hahaha! Lol

 

[blackemerald1]

then found BOTH my cats sleeping in the bowl with the dough

^:hilarious: omg I've had some kitchen disasters but not cats in the cooking. :)

he loves experimenting- and that added to the flavour, but I like a simple French type white best

I made a rye whole flour starter but am using plain white bread flour for the bread. I love white bread too. ^ It might be time to get him back onto it because, well ...bread is a bit scarce here.

 

[nursenurse]

I have been away working during all this pandemonium. Returned yesterday, went grocery shopping. It looked like a Saturday morning in there, however, it iwasn’t staffed like a Saturday. One person for the meat counter, one for the chicken. The only chicken there was gizzards and livers...so she was none too busy and helped the meat guy. However, folks were trying to bulk buy meat. I was number 58....they were at 23. There was also grouind turkey at the chicken counter that no one was showing an interest in, so I got that without waiting and made a lovely turkey chili. There was lots of fresh produce, and no TP of course. I then skipped the meat counter, I was there for 2 hours and it had only progressed to 42. I had been up from 0430 at that time, it was noon already. And only 3 cashiers, line ups down the aisles....

 

[MainerMikeBrown]

Tonight for dinner, I am having hot dogs, potato chips, and a sour pickle.

Nothing fancy. Just good food, in my opinion.

 

[Mee]

Really boring mac and cheese. I wanted to do a French onion version but it’s got too late. Another time

 

[blackemerald1]

A steamed potato, green salad & one lonely rissole. Enough but very boring!

 

[The Albatross]

Pad Thai and tahini glazed pork stir fry added in some flaked red pepper til I can get a new crop of Thai peppers.

 

[Mee]

Some sausages I found in the freezer and some lentils. I didn’t really want to eat meat so much for a while but DH is home and things have changed. Flexibility is key.

 

[ChildofGod]

tomato soup and grilled cheese

 

[The Albatross]

Spiced Miso & Dumpling Soup

Basic recipe above... but I'm adding nori (seaweed), ginseng, chopped spinach and shrimp and serving over rice or rice noodles. Snagged the dumplings in the picked over frozen section.