This is a great bread to bring to a Thanksgiving feast to share w/ your friends. It’s quickly becoming my favorite bread recipe!
Ingredients:
1 cup wheat flour
2 1/2 – 3 cups bread flour
1/2 cup bulgar
1/2 cup toasted rolled oats
1/4 cup olive [...]
This is a great bread to bring to a Thanksgiving feast to share w/ your friends. It’s quickly becoming my favorite bread recipe!
Ingredients:
1 cup wheat flour
2 1/2 – 3 cups bread flour
1/2 cup bulgar
1/2 cup toasted rolled oats
1/4 cup olive [...]
Well, it’s time to say goodbye to my garden for another year. 2009 was a fantastic year in my garden. I figured out how to keep the squirrels and rabbits out w/ a strong fence and marigolds so this year’s bounty was incredible!! An opossum managed to lethargically climb into [...]
I had the opportunity to help friends harvest their grapes this year at their vineyard near St. Genevieve, Missouri. They have 3 acres of chambourcin vines planted. The grapes are taken to a winery next door for crushing, aging and bottling. Chambourcin thrives in the hot humid Missouri climate and [...]
1 liter jug, screw cap closure (once again socially acceptable). This was a great wine for the price! Typical red zinfandel flavors and aromas. I loved the small jug packaging – it gave me flashbacks to the days when we would chug down cheap [...]
For LiveSTRONG Day – A tribute to all those living w/ cancer. Barbara of Winos and Foodies is once again hosting A Taste of Yellow to support LiveSTRONG Day and to raise awareness of cancer issues worldwide. She’s asking food bloggers to cook up something yellow [...]
from this…
to this…
to this!
Candied Jalapenos
Ingredients:
3 tablespoons water
1 cup sugar
8 large jalapenos
1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
Procedure:
1) Remove seeds and ribs, then cut jalapenos into ¼ inch squares
2) Sauté jalapenos on a griddle (wiped w/ olive oil) until [...]
The garden has been producing fantastically this year, and thanks to my better fence, the squirrels and rabbits have been stymied from eating all the ripe goodies to their hearts content! Of course I share some of the garden bounty w/ the furry yard critters, but I get first pick, [...]
I’ve been wanting to try this bread recipe for quite awhile to test it out and see if it’s a quicker and better recipe than other baguette recipes I’ve tried. Well, Farmgirl Susan was spot on. This is a great recipe w/ great results! It took me about 4 [...]
… or what I did on my summer vacation. A few weeks ago I went to New Mexico for 5 days w/ my best friends, Bob and Kristin. We stayed in Santa Fe and took day trips to explore the beautiful places that surround that enchanting city. We also [...]
Asparagus; other veggies
Zinnias; herbs; yard
Everything is in the ground and doing well! This year I planted 4 types of tomatoes (pineapple, black krim, cherokee purple and yellow [...]
If you’ve stopped by brunosdream in the last several days you may have wondered why it’s not looking like it’s supposed to. Well, that’s because some f!!ing hackers are freeloading off my site. Somehow they have either infiltrated the hosting package or the page formatting template I use. They loaded [...]
Sourdough Wheat Batard (recipe adapted from Peter Reinhart’s “The Bread Baker’s Apprentice)
Ingredients:
3/4 cups sourdough wheat starter (active)
1 1/2 cups water (luke warm)
1 cup wheat flour
3 cups bread flour
2 teaspoons salt
Procedure:
1) Place starter in a large bowl
2) In a separate bowl, [...]
Wow, 4 days ago when I did my first garden post of 2009 there was nothing but brown. Yesterday I was sniffing around out back and there they were, beautiful stalks of asparagus!! I took these photos today, and as you can [...]
…or “3 men and a pasta” as my friend, Kristin, named it because she watched as her husband, Bob, make the sauce, her brother, Greg, make fresh egg noodles and me peel, devein and saute’ the prawns! It all came together for a beautifully delicious meal!!
I had to wake up and feed my starter the other day, so I decided to try my hand at a new sourdough bread recipe…
Sourdough Boule (recipe adapted from sourdoughhome.com)
Ingredients:
1/4 cup sourdough starter
1/2 cup whole wheat flour
3 cups white bread flour
1 1/4 [...]
The resolution of the photos is not that good because they were taken w/ my friend’s i-phone. Sorry, no photo of the individual plating… we were too busy pigging out!
Thai Coconut Curry w/ Pork
Ingredients:
5 carrots – peeled, quartered and cut into ¾ [...]
In a previous post I mentioned how I had difficulty w/ candying jalapenos but couldn’t figure out what was the problem. Well, I did some additional research… In Harold McGee’s book, “On Food and Cooking”, he mentions how humidity causes caramelized sugar to soften. I’m assuming that due to [...]
Here’s the menu:
Jumbo shrimp w/ spicy cocktail sauce
Rib eye roast stuffed w/ spinach, crimini mushrooms and goat cheese
Oven roasted potatoes w/ rosemary and garlic
Shredded brussel sprouts w/ fresh chestnuts and applewood smoked bacon
Snow peas and carrots
Beer bread
Cardamom and clove gelato
Cookies and chocolates
…Kauai, Hawaii where we had an 18 hour layover. Enough time to see some sights, eat dinner and sleep!
Hotel scenes and beach
Me; Opaeka’a Falls; camouflaged chickens [...]
This was my contribution to the Thanksgiving feast…
Dark Chocolate Gelato w/ Candied Chestnuts and Blueberries
Ingredients:
1 cup fresh chestnuts - cooked, peeled, candied and broken into 1/3 inch pieces
6 ounces dark chocolate - chopped
1/2 cup dried blueberries - soaked [...]
These photos were sent to me by my brother, Fred, who lives in Agen (which is located between Toulouse and Bordeaux). He didn’t know what type of grapes are in the photos, but they [...]
Well, It looks like it will be the end of the growing season this week in St. Louis. We are supposed to get temperatures in the lower 30’s tonight. Oh, well, farewell to summer and the long warm evenings :-(
As a send off to [...]
I beat the squirrels and rabbits this time!! It’s taken me awhile, but I’ve learned that I have to pick my tomatoes while they’re still a little green, otherwise the yard critters snatch [...]
The other day I was invited for a barbeque at a friend’s house. I volunteered to bring a dessert. As I threw around some ideas, he mentioned that didn’t like the eggy flavor of gelato but did [...]
I now realize a lot can happen in a garden in a short amount of time. When I arrived back in town last weekend I noticed that my zucchini plant had rotted from all the rain we had while I was gone. I’m not sure how to avoid this next [...]
Two years in the making, but well worth the effort…
In the summer of 2006 I put up a retaining wall to keep the ivy from taking over a corner of my yard. I then tried to kill it w/ regular Roundup but the ivy won that battle. The following [...]
Here’s an unusual dessert that incorporates some of the best flavors of summer into a cool, palate cleansing treat! My friends’ friends brought them back a bottle of 15 year old balsamic vinegar from a trip to [...]
Unfortunately I had to go on the road during the week of my birthday this year. But, as luck would have it, we overnighted in Monterey, California on the eve of my day. I wanted to eat a special meal on my birthday so we went to a place I [...]
Daring Bakers challenge for April hosted by Elle at Feeding My Enthusiasms and Deborah at Taste and Tell.
I’m finally getting this posted after being delayed by blog hackers. My blog is still not working completely (the text on this and many previous posts [...]
Unfortunately my blog has been malfunctioning for the past couple of weeks due to some malicious hackers corrupting my template. I had a friend help me reinstall everything but it’s still not working properly. So, as a result I cannot upload any photos and when you click on [...]
This gelato was created for A Taste of Yellow - an event put on by Barbara at winosandfoodies for LiveSTRONG Day. I know several people who are courageously battling against cancer and I [...]
This is a first for me… making a meal at my friends’ house which included items from 2 previous posts - Julia Child’s French bread and biscotti. We hit a trifecta w/ this meal! We had the bread [...]
 
 February Challenge hosted by Breadchick Mary at The Sour Dough and Sara at I Like to Cook.
Making French Bread:
Step 1: The Dough Mixture – le fraisage (or frasage)Â
1 [...]
This biscotti recipe is from Acquerello - the restaurant in San Francisco where I did my externship for school. I used to make 3 large batches per week. The waiters would [...]
I’ve been sick, so I decided making soup would help cure what’s been ailing me. I was craving veggie soup, went to the store for fresh produce and threw this together. It made the house [...]
On Sunday I joined several St. Louis area food bloggers for a workshop at The Kitchen Conservatory to learn how to make a double crusted apple pie. Anne Cori was our instructor. She emphasized “cold dough/hot oven” to create a perfect pie. While the pies baked, Christi Fentress [...]
It’s 2008, I’ve got the blues, and I’ve lost my cooking mojo! I’m going to a pie making workshop on Sunday so maybe that will help inspire me.
Until then, here are some photos from my last work week. I got some great shots of the Seattle skyline [...]
Hi everyone,
Here’s a recipe that I put together for baguettes using sourdough starter. I couldn’t find any simple recipes for sourdough baguettes when I did a web search, so I combined a couple of recipes, took a [...]
Daring Bakers Challenge for November hosted by Tanna at My Kitchen In Half Cups
Tender Potato Bread (recipe from Home Baking: The Artful Mix of Flour & Tradition Around the [...]
This was my contribution to the Thanksgiving feast at my friends’ house. I also broughta bottle of 2007Georges DuBoeufBeaujolais Nouveau that was “tender, fruity, harmonious, elegant, fresh and delicious.”
The gelato was [...]
This is what they served me the last time I was in jail. A big improvement over the time before that when all I got was stale bread and water! Of course this was a jail just outside of Napa [...]
I met the challenge… the Daring Bakers challenge that is!
I am very excited to be involved w/ this great group of talented bakers. For September, we were asked to try our hand at cinnamon buns. I’ve never made these delicious goodies but was [...]
Welcome to the Telluride airport… located on a plateau 9080 feet above sea level. The runway is somewhat concave - [...]
This year, when you have friends over to harvest your basil and make pesto, whip up a batch of these to quench their thirst!!
They’re easy drinking and, ahhhh, so refreshing…
Basil Mojito (recipe adapted from Texas Monthly)
Ingredients:
8 limes - quartered
8 ounces [...]
As my contribution to La Festa al Fresco 
at Cream Puffs in VeniceI volunteered to bring a dessert. This year my dessert is Vietnamese coffee gelato w/ Toblerone chocolate chunks. I also made homemade mini cones so the party guests can [...]
