Perfect thing as a light dinner with a salad or as an app/starter: Cucumber and Smoke Salmon Tart! Light, flavorful and can be made ahead (I baked the tart on Sunday and made the remainder on Monday for dinner). Fresh dill from my own urban garden!
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Spelt and Honey Sourdough Rolls
Today is National Doughnut Day, but these clearly are not donuts. 🙂 I didn’t know that it was national doughnut day until this morning, and I already had these lovely dinner rolls on deck so I decided to make these after all. I added in a bit a spelt flour, for flavor — really delicious. Best eaten the same day, but these freeze well too.
Just getting back from travels and of course the very first thing that I had to make was a loaf of bread — mainly because I had nothing to eat in the house. So I made this very standard German-style artisan loaf, a mix of wheat and rye flours. It’s hearty, it’s good. Makes a great sandwich or toast too.
Today is National Pretzel Day (this should really fall on the same day as Beer day!) and these are a massive labor of love. Despite being German — and Southern German at that! — I am not a very good pretzel maker. My Opa, the Bäckermeister. wouldn’t be too terribly impressed with my shaping abilities. The dough is great — high protein flour from Kin Arthur is great — and these are sourdough, though if you search my site, you will also find the yeast version. The first batch, the “arms” kept on coming off the sides, so I started tucking them under and that worked better. The pretzel salt (also from KA) kept on falling off the bottom bit when I made the slits, so I put it on the side. Not traditional, but they’ll do.
