Sourdough Onion Hamburger Rolls

We were discussing dinner, and decided for hamburgers. I decided to make hamburger rolls since we did not have any, and it was another chance to use my sourdough starter.

Green Chili Chicken Enchilada Casserole

I was looking for a casserole that would keep nicely in the oven while heading to the airport to pick up Gramma. Alex likes Mexican food, Gramma does not really like red sauce. I decided upon a Green Chili Chicken Enchilada Casserole.

Pumpkin Spritz Cookies (gluten free!)

I have been thinking about how to make pumpkin spritz cookies that were gluten free. (I'm in a spritz cookie phase...)

I decided to base these cookies a well regarded highly reviewed pumpkin cookie recipe from AllRecipes. Of course I had to change them up a bit. Here's what came out:

Snickerdoodle Spritz Cookies

I wanted to make up some new cookie recipes for the WPPC Living Nativity snacks. I decided to try a Snickerdoodle Spritz Cookie recipe.

Lime Masa Harina Sugar Spritz Cookies

Improvising a new recipe - lime masa harina spritz sugar cookies (gluten free!).

Apple Honey Mini Muffins

I felt like making an apple mini muffin for social hour tomorrow. These Apple Honey Mini Muffins are a slight variation on my Baked Apple Fritters with a honey glaze and a slightly fewer steps.

Turkey Stuffing and Turkey Gravy

Here's my typical stuffing recipe. (I call it stuffing, but I cook it in a separate pan.) Turkey stock recipe is shown below.

Cranberry Sauce

I decided to make fresh cranberry sauce this year.

Mini Bacon Cheddar Popovers

While I was waiting for my sourdough bread to rise, I decided to make some snacks for social hour. After some cross-recipe interpretation, I came up with a Mini Bacon Cheese Popover.

 
 

Spanish Chickpea and Potato Soup

I was feeling like a meatless dinner, and I had some dried chickpeas sitting on the shelf. I flipped through my pressure cooker cook book, and came up with Spanish Chickpea and Potato Soup.

Pork, Kielbasa, and Sauerkraut

I have not been cooking for awhile. To make up for it, today I made marbled sourdough rye bread, then I made quick pressure cooker apple sauce . (I also made Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookie Bites and Baked Apple Fritters for snacks for social hour tomorrow...)

WIth all that baking, I knew that I should make something for dinner as well. I decided that a crock port of pork, kielbasa, and sauerkraut would be a natural choice to go with rye bread and apple sauce.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookie Bites

I had leftover Halloween candy, and decided to try a new recipe. These are Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookie Bites. (Property has snacks again this month - expect round food from me...)

Quick Pressure Cooker Applesauce

I was trying to make apple cider, but but my recipe changed to a quick apple sauce. This makes about 4 servings of apple sauce.

Thai Shrimp in Coconut Peanut Sauce

I was looking for something light for dinner, and then remembered I had some leftover coconut milk in the refrigerator, some frozen shrimp, and some rice noodles.  I did some Internet searches, and came up with sort of a stir fried Thai Shrimp in Coconut Peanut Sauce.

Pizza Balls (Feta Spinach)

I was looking for a feta pizza recipe (this happens when you buy feta from Costco and you like to bake.) I found a Pizza Ball recipe that looked fun for tonight.

Sourdough Thin Crust Pizza Dough

I tried a quick pizza dough for the pizza ball recipe I made tonight. This makes enough for two 13 x 18-inch thin crust pizzas, 4 servings each. I used 1/2 the recipe for the pizza balls.

Raspberry Swirl Cheesecake

Ben, Brandi, and I are visiting Grammy in WV. Ben is on a lower-carb diet, and mom bought 3 pounds of cream cheese. So Brandi helped me make a Raspberry Swirl Cheesecake that could use up a bunch of the cream cheese.

(It has a chocolate crust .  .  .)

Quick Sourdough Waffles

I brought my mom in West Virginia some of my sourdough starter. Today I made us all some sourdough waffles. I modified an overnight recipe a smidge to make waffles right now.

Deep Dish Pizza

I decided to make a Deep Dish Pizza - I just it changed up a smidge to use sourdough starter.

Braided Marbled Sourdough Rye Breaf

I was heading up to Baltimore so I decided to make a marbled sourdough rye bread for my friend Denise.



(I had to bring the bread in my carry on luggage, so I placed it on a cooling rack for stability, and use aluminum foil to package it. The man at the TSA scanner looked at me a bit funny - I quickly reassured him it was a bread. I asked him if this was the most unusual thing he had scanned today, and he said it was, but waved me through.)

Italian Sausage Soup

Acini di pepe was on sale, and it jumped in my cart. (This is a small round pasta, much like couscous.) I wanted soup to go with my latest sourdough sandwich bread. I came up with Italian Sausage Soup with acini di pepe pasta.

Spinach Artichoke Olive Tapenade

I wanted a light lunch, and I had the end of a week old sourdough bread. I decided to slice the bread thinly, and top it with a spinach artichoke olive tapenade. (I was going for a cross between pesto and a traditional olive tapenade.)

Chicken Chickpea Curry

I noticed an Indian curry mix in the spice drawer, so decided upon a chicken chickpea curry for dinner.

Sourdough Naan

I adapted my flatbread recipe a smidge to use sourdough.

Spaghetti alla Puttanesca

I had some feta to use up, and was feeling like pasta. The union of my pantry and my Google searches came up with Spaghetti alla Puttanesca. This can be a vegetarian dish if you use vegetable broth instead of chicken broth.

Nectarine Sorbet

We bought nectarines at Costco today. We did not have any half and half, so I decided to try a sorbet recipe.

 

Marinade for Grilled Chicken

Trying out a new marinade recipe for grilled chicken.

Basic Sourdough Sandwich Bread

I'm trying a new sandwich bread - the Basic Sourdough Bread from King Arthur. I tried to up the recipe by 20% to fit in my long bread pan.

Mini Blueberry Strawberry Pies

My sourdough starter needed refreshing, and I had frozen the leftover blueberries and strawberries before traveling last week. It was time for Mini Blueberry Strawberry Pies with a sourdough crust (or pate brisee.)

Blueberry Pecan Corn Flour Mini Muffins (Gluten Free)

John asked for a taste of my previous blueberry muffins. I decided to make up some gluten free ones for him, so melded a couple of recipes together. (This recipe made about 30 mini muffins.)

Mini Blueberry Sourdough Muffins (and Mini Banana Berry Muffins)

My sourdough starter needed to be fed, and I had blueberries.
I now have many mini blueberry sourdough muffins - although some seem to be evaporating...

Feta Chicken Pasta

I needed a dinner plan for someone who likes to cook, but is allergic to bell peppers. I decided on pasta, with chicken, spinach, and feta.

Cherry Clafoutis

I saw a recipe for a 'simply delicious cherry dessert' the same morning I had some cherries thawing.
I decided I needed a cherry pitter, and since Amazon would not deliver today, I went shopping.
I now own a cherry pitter, and have made my first clafoutis.

Dry Rubbed Grilled Chicken

We decided to have grilled chicken with vegetable skewers tonight. Here's the recipe I used.

Potato Salad

Doug asked for a simple potato salad with dinner. He requested a light touch on the mustard, and hard boiled eggs. Since he asked me to write down this recipe, I believe it was a success!

Mediterranean Wonton Bites

The leftover wonton wrappers wanted to be used up, and so did some feta and jalapeno.
After some recipe surfing, I decided to make Mediterranean Wonton Bites.

 
 

Black Bean Brownies

I felt like baking tonight. After reading a bunch of recipe ideas, I decided I wanted brownies. After reading several brownie recipes, I decided to make my riff on Chocolate Covered Katie's Black Bean Brownies. I've made them a couple of times before, and they are good!

Pulled Chicken with Green Chili Mac-n-Cheese

I had about 16 ounces of leftover barbecue sauce from 4Rivers Smokehouse, so I decided to make pulled barbecue chicken. I needed a side dish, so I also made Green Chili Mac and Cheese in my pressure cooker.

Mediterranean Pepper, Olive, and Pastrami Pasta

I had a lot of turkey pastrami left over from the weekend, and somehow found a Mediterranean Pasta with pepper, onion, and olives recipe. This works as either a warm pasta dish or a cold salad - my version served 2 for dinner.

Green Chili Queso

As part of the taco bar theme for Ben and Brandi's open house, I made Green Chili Queso.

Fresh Strawberry Mini Pie

Alex's favorite pie is fresh strawberries in a chocolate cookie crust. I've made this for years, since I went strawberry picking with Libby years ago. This is a mini pie version suitable for potlucks and parties. (I made it for Ben and Brandi's open house.)

Cowboy Caviar

Cowboy Caviar - perhaps also known as Southwest bean salad. My friend's bother Mark made a big batch for a party a couple of weeks ago, and shared his recipe with me.  I made up a big batch for tomorrow's open house for Ben and Brandi.

Hawaiian Pizza (with a Sourdough Crust)

We had some fresh pineapple, and some deli ham, and they came together in Hawaiian Pizza.

Watermelon Feta Salad

We bought a large watermelon to share with Ben and Brandi. They had to leave before we ate the watermelon. So we had watermelon feta salad tonight to go with our leftover pizza.

Chocolate Cherry Focaccia

Time for a potluck dessert -- I decided to make another sweet sourdough flatbread. This one is a Chocolate Cherry Focaccia. It uses the about same base dough as my recent Apple Cinnamon Flatbread, but I did not make up the dough the night before.

Sourdough Sandwich Bread

I've been looking for a nice sandwich loaf for my "Wilton Recipe Right 2 Piece Long Loaf Pan". The last couple of times the loaf was too short. From some reading on the Internet, I think I need a recipe with about 550 grams of flour to get a nicely domed loaf.  That would be about 3.5 to 3.75 cups of flour. So I tried out a new recipe today.

Apple Cinnamon Flatbread

I had my eye on a apple cinnamon sourdough flatbread recipe, so I decided to make dessert for a cookout planned for today. (I do try out new recipes that 'read well' on friends and social occasions -- do you?)

Strawberry Spinach Salad

We had fresh strawberries and fresh baby spinach, so I thought it was time for a strawberry spinach salad. Pretty basic - I also added some slices of hard boiled eggs and some toasted pecans with a little brown sugar cinnamon glaze.

Sourdough Challah (no added yeast)

I wanted to make a four braid sourdough challah. I started baking Saturday morning basically following the Sourdough Challah recipe from Sourdough Home.



For some reason, I forgot that most of my sourdough recipes have added yeast. With this only sourdough yeast recipe, I found adding yeast REALLY helps the speed of the rise. (There will be more discussion of this point later...)

I found the dough rose very slowly, I was only able to braid it after about 12 hours after initial kneading. This ended up having to be an overnight recipe, I put the loaf and pan in the refrigerator, and baked it this morning.

Loquat-Cherry Pie with Sourdough Pate Brisee

This is mostly about the sourdough pie crust. I happened to make a loquat cherry filling to go in it.