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A couple of Moe's breakfasts.

Homemade bread toasted, Italian sausage with potatoes, peppers, onions and mushrooms yesterday and this morning a mushroom omelette from local free range eggs.

Moe's Breakfast from yesterday.

I was out of eggs so I went with Italian Sausage with potatoes, peppers, onions and mushrooms with toasted sourdough.

 

And today's breakfast

 

Mushroom Omelette with local farm eggs.

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Pizza for dinner last night.   

Dough was made on Wednesday and left in the fridge for 24 hours.   

 

Topped with mushrooms and Italian sausage.

 

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Grilled chicken with a side of pasta.

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Soup for breakfast.

 

Put a pot of Potato Leek soup on to simmer early this morning.

 

Served with toasted sourdough.

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Moe requested something sweet this morning, like cinnamon rolls.  

 

So I baked him a cinnamon roll cake.

This is a great breakfast cake because it is easy to make and served warm.  It doesn't have to cool long before topping with the cream cheese frosting.

 

 

 

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@robirdstx, great looking biscuits.  I would love your breakfast.

 

Yesterday's breakfast was the dinner I didn't cook the night before.

 

Grilled Pork Chops with potato gratin and mashed buttered acorn squash. 

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Dinner for Two - Shared Platter.

 

 Moe's favourite salad. He loves this Caesar Salad. I've been making him this salad since 1979.

This one sets the standards by which he judges all other Caesars.

Homemade dressing with coddle egg , homemade croutons and both Roquefort Cheese and Parm Reggiano.

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Moe's breakfast.

Another dinner that became breakfast instead.

 

A Thai style version of garlic pork.

Best thing about making dinner for breakfast is that I will take some for lunch.

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14 hours ago, scubadoo97 said:

Well Happy Valentines!  Can't wait to see what's for dinner Ann_T

 

Scubadoo, Dinner ended up being a roast beef sandwich on homemade baguette.    Forgot to take pictures.  

 

@shain, thanks.

 

All Moe wanted for breakfast this morning was toasted homemade sourdough bread.

 

 

 Baked on the grill last night (last minute save)  because my oven failed to heat up.

Came off the grill just before we went to bed so he never got to try it last night.  

 

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Almost had a baking disaster last night.

My oven decided not to heat up.
It had preheated for a long time but never got past 485°F. Or so I thought.

I opened the oven door to slide in the first loaf and realized that it did not seem all that hot. So I turned it off and on again and it was only at 290°F. Wouldn't heat up past 310°F.

So I debated whether to just toss the remaining three loaves, but decided to try baking them on the grill.

Not perfect, but turned out better than I expected.

Sliced this morning. Moe wanted just toast at 4:30 AM.

Proof that it is really difficult to screw up bread.

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Today's bake

 

from a batch of dough made yesterday.

 

Crumb shot.

 

 

I also have a batch of sourdough that I started this morning.

 

I have neglected my sourdough starter for months.
I don't think I have fed it since October.

Pulled it out yesterday morning and got started. Poured off the hooch and retained 6 oz of starter. Gave it a good stir and fed it with 3 ounces of fresh milled Canadian organic rye flour and three ounces of spring water.

I was expecting to have to feed it a number of times before it got active, but it actually doubled in six hours. It was slow starting but once it got going it took off.

I fed it again last night and used some of the discard to make a biga/preferment. This morning it was ready to use so I started a batch of sourdough. Not sure if I will bake today or wait until tomorrow.

 

 

 

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Moe's Valentine's Day Breakfast.

 

 

Chicken Pot Pie.

Topped with sage biscuits. 

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Roasted a couple of small chickens last night.

 

One for dinner and the other was morphed into today's Valentine's Day breakfast.

 

 

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Made Moe Green Peppercorn steak with Parisienne Potatoes and asparagus last night for dinner. 

 The steak had been presalted on Thursday.

 

 

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18 hours ago, Kim Shook said:

Ann, everything you make looks wonderful.  But your bread is truly amazing.  Whenever you post it, I just want to sit down with a plate of hot, buttered toast and eat 'til I fall over.  

 

Thanks @Kim Shook 

You know that I feel the same way about your meals.   I think that we cook very similar.

 

 

Anyone that knows me, knows that I don't like salads. Never have.

I can make them, but I just don't get any satisfaction out of eating a salad.

But Moe loves salads.

 

So I decided to be a good wife this morning and make him a "breakfast salad".

 

Salad comprised of fried potatoes, bacon, tomatoes, avocado and red onion. Topped with a poached egg. And garlic croutons made from my homemade baguette.

He loved it.

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@shain Your burekas  look amazing.   

 

A few meals from this week.

 

Grilled Rack of Lamb with fresh mint sauce.

 

Chicken Fingers with garlic rice and spinach.

 

Prime Rib bones with onion gravy.

 

 

 

 

 

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Moe's breakfasts from the last three mornings.

Friday - Chicken Rice and Tomato soup.

I made soup to take to work with me for lunch and Moe decided to have some for breakfast.

with toasted homemade baguette.

Thursday - Ham and Eggs Skillet breakfast.

Mine - Thursday - Toasted Ham and tomato.

Wednesday - Mushrooms with scrambled eggs.

 

 

 

 

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@shain, beautiful seeded loaf.

 

 

Mixed up a batch of dough on Sunday and baked Monday.

 

 

Got the idea from @Franci and used some of the baguette dough to make  mini rolls. 

 

 

Not much bigger than a large egg.

 

 

 

 

 

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Insipired by @Kerry Beal

 I made Moe a Dutch Baby pancake for breakfast on the weekend.  Filled with lemon curd.

 

and I made him crepes for breakfast yesterday mixing the leftover curd into whipped cream cheese for the filling. 

 

 

 

 

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@Franci, those little buns are just adorable.   I will have to borrow your idea. 

 

Last night's bake.

Dough was made on Tuesday and refrigerated until late yesterday afternoon.

 

Baked two baguettes

and two pizzas.

 

 

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Had a batch of dough on the go since yesterday so baked a couple of baguettes and baked a couple of pizzas.

One for Matt and one for Moe and I to share.

 

Ours was topped with fresh mozzarella di bufala, mushrooms and pepperoni (made by a friend of a friend).

 

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I decided to make a fried rice version of Aloo Gobi  topped with a fried egg.

It was a big hit with both Moe and Matthew.

 

 

 

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New York Strip Roast (Sterling Silver) presalted on Wednesday and roasted this morning for breakfast.

Made homemade horseradish this morning too. Really, Really powerful horseradish.

 

 

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Skipped the main course and went straight to dessert.

 

 

 

 

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Robirdstk,  Great looking burger.

 

Tonight I made a Dim Sum favourite

 

 

. Steamed ribs with fermented black beans. I used baby back ribs. Had the butcher cut them lengthwise and then I just cut them into bite size pieces.