Menu Plan 8/19-8/25

I am on vacation this week.  We don't really have any major plans.

A trip to the mountains one day, a lazy day or three here or there.

A visit to the farmer's market, maybe paint the shed.

Just a take the week as it comes kind of retreat from work.

{sigh} Much needed.

Sunday, 8/19/12

Breakfast - Frittata (prosciutto, spinach, onion, mushroom, goat cheese, fresh tomatoes) &

Homemade biscuits, blackberry jam, french press coffee. 

Dinner - Cube steak, smashed potatoes, sauteed garden veggies

Monday, 8/20/12

Breakfast - Breakfast burritos

Lunch - leftover Sourdough Pizza

Dinner - Pork chops, mac & cheese, fresh Lima beans

Tuesday, 8/21/12

Breakfast - Prosciutto biscuits and grits

Lunch - Gypsy Bacon, herbed bacon and Polish cheese hoagies with fresh veggies

Dinner - Spaghetti

Wednesday, 8/22/12

Breakfast - English Muffins, homemade sausage, sliced tomato

Lunch - Summer Squash and Corn Chowder

Dinner - Cheeseburgers and chips

Thursday, 8/23/12

Breakfast - Oatmeal with walnuts and cinnamon

Lunch - Grilled Cheese, veggies

Dinner - Grilled Chicken Gyros with Freezer Tzatziki Sauce  pita bread

Friday, 8/24/12

Breakfast - BLTs with grits

Lunch - Deli subs with stuffed celery

Shrimp and flounder, baked potatoes and cole slaw

Saturday, 8/25/12

Open

What's on your menu this week?

 Org Junkie Menu Plan Monday & On the Menu Monday @ Stone Gable

Ciao! Amy 

Sourdough Starter Update and Recipe

An  update on my sourdough starter.  It's progressing very nicely.

I stir it each night and have been feeding it every other night with

1 cup all purpose flour and 2/3 cup filtered warm water.

Last night I removed the 1st cup of starter and instead of tossing it,

I made pizza dough for our dinner.

The recipe is  Annies-eats Sourdough Pizza Crust is

absolutely wonderful.  Light, airy and we both deemed it a keeper. 

Also, a wonderful way to use up that cup of starter left over from weekly feedings.

We topped the sourdough pizza crust with:

Homemade-Italian-Sausage , red sauce, spinach,

fresh black cherry and yellow grape tomatoes from our vines,

mushrooms, Parmesan, mozzarella cheese and homemade goat cheese from our CSA.

It was one of the best pizzas that we have ever made at home.

Ciao! Amy

Sour Dough Starter (Experiment 1)

I enjoy making bread and sour dough is one of my favorites.

As my bread making skills improved over the years I have had a

desire to make authentic sour dough bread. But, I (let's be honest here)

have been intimidated by (yes, snicker if you must) flour, water and yeast.

I have read a lot of sour dough gone wrong stories.  Well, today this evening at

7:30pm EST I bit the bullet.  I created my first sour dough starter you see above.

I read, re-read, scoured the Internet for tips, etc.

Took a deep breath and bit the sour dough bullet. 

I hope you will follow my journey down the sour dough path

as I update my blog periodically on the sour dough experiment

growing in my kitchen as you read this.

My Sourdough Starter Recipe

2 cups all purpose flour

2 cups warm water

2 1/4 t of bread yeast

2 t orange blossom honey

Place all ingredients in a large glass or plastic container and cover loosely.

Leave on counter for approximately 5 days.

Stir daily, add 1/4 cup flour and water every other day.

*Yellow "hooch" liquid may appear on top as the alcohol is released. 

Stir this back in the mixture.



CSA Tuesday

Another great box of goodies from our CSA Farm.

The goodies for this week are:

Yellow Squash

Banana Peppers

Green Pepper

Tomatoes

Onions

Head of Garlic

Field Peas

Red Potatoes (Somehow they got left out of the picture)

Homemade Goat Cheese

Fresh Figs

Ciao! Amy