What's for Dinner? (Tuesday)
Tuesday's dinner is broccoli chowder and last night's brown bread.
Tuesday's dinner is broccoli chowder and last night's brown bread.
Monday's dinner is lentil stew and brown bread.
It's been a productive week. I MADE a gingerbread in honour of Gran, and ate it with butter and Earl Grey.
I LEARNED that Irish brown bread is a type of soda bread that is leavened with the combination of baking soda and buttermilk, which is slightly acidic. It is more like cake than bread, and takes next to no prep time. I found a lovely recipe online that I've made twice now, most recently with fish chowder.
I GAVE half of my nice muddy carrots from the Farmers' Market to my mother-in-law, since she appreciates their superior flavour.
About once a week we have homemade pizza for dinner. I use Billy Reisinger's recipe for the dough, which yields enough for two pizzas; half goes in the freezer for the next week. This week our pizza was topped with pesto, purple sprouting broccoli, spring onions, sun dried tomatoes, and leftover venison sausage.
As part of my ongoing struggle against the delicious tyranny of breakfast cereal, I have learned to make my own granola, but I have resolved never to turn on the oven expressly to bake it. Since pizza is one of the few recipes for which it it vital to fully pre-heat the oven, I made a pan of granola with the extra heat. Low-carbon granola! Ta-da!