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Getting a sourdough starter can be difficult.  Dried starters can be ordered from various places, such as Northwest Sourdough, King Arthur or Sourdo. These have to be activated and brought back to life.  Ideally, a friend would give you an active starter.  Once you get an active starter that you really like, and they all have [...]

It got hot so quickly yesterday Cosmo and I missed our morning walk on the Bona Dea trail, so this morning we headed out right after I shaped my rolls to let rise.  He did great! I can’t wait to see how these turn out, this is a new pan I got from King Arthur..

For quite some time, I’ve thought my pizza was better than any pizza we could get locally. When I saw Peter Reinhart’s Perfect Pizza at Home class on Craftsy for free, I figured . . hey, maybe I can improve my already great pizza.  I’ve been a Peter Reinhart fan for years.  As with the [...]

I made whole wheat bread this morning (no experimenting) and hung a load of laundry outside, then Cosmo and I took our walk on the trails. I made a quick trip back into town for a head of cauliflower, I’d put a pork roast on the smoker this morning and thought some cauliflower with cheese sauce..

The scones were yummy!  I ate two!  I chose blueberry over blackberry… I forgot I sent most of our frozen blackberries home with my parents last time they visited.We have a section of the orchard fence that runs along our driveway that’s mostly wasted space.  We can’t plant anything there on the driveway side that..

The last time we were in Llano, we stopped by Miiller’s Meat Market and bought a few stuffed chicken breasts.  They are so huge!  They’re stuffed with cheese and jalapeno peppers, then wrapped in bacon and each one weighs a little less than 1-1/2 pounds.  We split one and still have enough left over to [...]

We had a perfect day yesterday! We hit the farmer's market at eight o'clock, Cosmo in tow, and bought some grape plants, some red sorrell, a red celery plant variety I'd not seen before, and met the wonderful owners of Drewry Orchards, great people! Afterwards we drove out to the Bona Dea Trails to take..

This is truly making me crazy!  My 100%  whole wheat bread, made entirely with the same ingredients, the only difference was to make one batch with my KitchenAid mixer (photo one), and the other batch mixed with my bread machine (photo two). These are a 1lb batch of dough (3 cups of flour).  I spent a..

Bliss!

Or should that be Play dough?  Heck, you’d think I’d be past that stage! This week I’m going to be working on improving my whole wheat bread.  If I do say so myself, it’s already pretty darn good, it took a blue ribbon at the fair when I entered it, but it has a major..

Here at A Spoonful of Sugar we are passionate about baking and cooking. While in Paris we spent a day browsing through cooking stores and buying a few supplies for some French inspired baking. We were like two kids in a candy store - seriously, we had never before seen such an extensive range of cake tins, moulds, cookie cutters, and baking supplies - it was almost overwhelming! Many of the stores catered for baking professionals/pastry chefs - it was so much fun.

I’ve been taking some photos of little domestic pleasures. A warm, flourless orange cake, a new fruit bowl full of lemons and home-grown mandarins, a baby quilt made from scraps, a couple of zippered pouches I made thanks to Kristen Link’s (of Sew Mama Sew) free Craftsy course – Bag making basics, a pile of ironed, quilted goodies etc. Anyway here they are and I hope you enjoy them too.

I’ve been taking some photos of little domestic pleasures. A warm, flourless orange cake, a new fruit bowl full of lemons and home-grown mandarins, a baby quilt made from scraps, a couple of zippered pouches I made thanks to Kristen Link’s (of Sew Mama Sew) free Craftsy course – Bag making basics, a pile of ironed, quilted goodies etc. Anyway here they are and I hope you enjoy them too.

The day started bright and early this morning.  It is Mike's birthday, and so I got up and made him his favorite Eggs Benedict.  Eggs Benedict is one of those dishes that uses lots of pots and pans, and, like a stir-fry, you'd better have everything ready to go before you start making it because it all gets finished at the same time.  You need to have the Canadian bacon in the frying pan ready to go.  You need your eggs separated, your lemon juice squeezed, and your butter melted for the Hollandaise sauce.  You need your eggs ...

I’ve been handing out starts of my sourdough culture right and left lately, and of course most of the recipients are new to sourdough, so I made a tutorial page on feeding your culture and baking a simple loaf of sourdough bread.  I think pictures really help someone new to the experience understand if their..

I find it so satisfying to sit down to a meal that mostly came from the garden. Carrot salad with carrots from the garden.  Crash hot potatoes with potatoes from the garden.  Kale chips with kale from the garden.  Chicken . . from Brown County Meat Market. And last . . homemade sourdough bread.  Good [...]