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Some recent delights, volume 1
Here’s just a few stand-alone pics of various things I’ve been cooking. Some, like the burger and curry, are my own concoctions and others are recipes from some of my favourite sites and cookbooks.
Using the fresh ciabatta bread I had just made Monday night, my Tuesday lunch would be a pan-fried local hot Italian sausage with sauteed onions and peppers. Kuinshoeve hot Italian sausage is actually pretty spicy stuff but in a very good way. Wonderful stuff. That ciabatta is going to become a regular in my house.
This double cheeseburger was lunch on a cold January day. I miss my Weber charcoal BBQ but a cast iron pan did a nice job on these patties. The buns were made with a mix of all purpose flour and whole wheat flour. My usual batch of bread makes two loaves but in this case, I made eight buns and a loaf. Nice burger!
A mix of chilies and spices for a dish of lamb curry.
Just a nice bowl of chili with some crisp charra chips.
My first crack at Italian ciabatta bread. It's a crusty sourdough that's a lot easier to make than a regular sourdough. Really nice bread although the loaves ended up on the small size. I'll double the recipe next time. Cooks Illustrated magazine has the recipe for this one.
A deep dish Hawaiian pizza with ham, mushroom, pineapple and red bell pepper. Another idea from Cooks Illustrated, this pizza is cooked in a spring-form cake pan at a lower temperature (400 F) than regular pizza (550 F) and the dough is made with milk instead of water. Milk has a certain protein that helps to break down gluten structure, making for a softer dough. Really great pizza!
I used that sausage in my last spaghetti sauce. Nothing like hot and spicy spaghetti sauce.
Wonderful! Man, I haven’t been to Moncton in ages, and I’ve heard many good things about the Dieppe Market. I gotta check it out!
Hey,
We had the pizza tonight – regular, not Hawaiian. It was great. My wife was wary of the spring-form pan but it gave a deep dish feel and cooked it just right.
Awesome recipes!
We also made some fresh tortellini and will have tomorrow. We will likely try sausage stuffed in the future – a butcher at the Dieppe Market sells this brand of sausage that tastes very much like pepperoni. Very Good!
DG
Well, it was a Hawaiian pizza so it was either pineapple or a whole pig with an apple in its mouth. As usual, I took the lazy route.
Pineapple on pizza…
I expected better from you, Hawk.