Spring has sprung and Easter is right around the corner, so I thought I would make some Easter-like treats. Up first: these Lemon Sandwich Cookies with Raspberry Cream Filling. Light, a wee bit tart and overall delicious. I am not about the colors usually, but I had leftover sanding sugar from Christmas in a multi-color pack, so I used some of that too. It’s totally optional, as is the cookie-stamp, but it does make them more interesting looking, I think.
More bread. This time an Everyday Sourdough Boule. It’s very yummy. And kind of pretty, actually too.
I’ve been playing around a bit more with “right sizing” my bread recipes for the vessel that I am baking them in. Meaning, sorting out the baker’s ratio for a loaf with 3 cups, 4 cups and 5 cups of flour, because those are the 3 Dutch Oven sizes that I have. I’ve made the mistake of having the loaf be too big and it hit the lid causing a strange shaped loaf (though it tasted fine). Photographed here is the biggest loaf that I make, in my 6-quart Dutch oven. It’s way too big for a single person, but that is my measuring starting point. Lot’s of stuff to learn in the bread baking department. My Opa would be proud that I gotten more into bread baking though.
This isn’t the prettiest Chicken Pot Pie that I have ever made, and I guess it’s just a bunch of random veg that I had in the fridge (leeks and cabbage aren’t generally part of the equation) but it sure does taste good. AND I have this t-shirt specifically for Pi Day today on 3.14 so I *of course* had to make a Chicken Pot Pie. Cute, eh? (I mean the tshirt, not the pie)
I seem to be the queen of finding random ingredients, and this week is no different. Have you ever heard of Banana JAM? I had no idea that you could make jam out of bananas, but you can and it’s pretty darn good. I had to buy a jar when I saw it in the shops and decided to make these here Monkey Pie Bars — Banana Coconut Crumble Bars. Amazingly rich banana flavor and toasted coconut. Perfect “tropical” flavors to warm up this cold March morning.