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Big Buttermilk Biscuits. Baked this morning for Moe's breakfast.

Took a second container of dough out of the fridge yesterday afternoon and made pizza for dinner. One for Moe and I. Our regular Sausage and Mushroom and Matt's Greek potato pizza.

Nothing better than homemade croutons. @David Ross, I would so snack on your croutons. Hand-mixed a 1500g batch of dough yesterday at 72% hydration. Divided it into three containers and put them in the fridge. Took one out the fridge early this morning and baked three baguettes and one small round. The little round was a result of having to cut a piece off one of the baguettes so the baguette would fit on the stone in the CSO. Took a second batch out of the fridge this afternoon and will make pizza for dinner. And the other container will stay in the fridge until I feel like baking again. Maybe tomorrow or Thursday.

@Kim Shook. I agree with @Margaret Pilgrim. That is the best photo I have seen of a baked potato. I had some Gruyere cheese leftover from last week when I made the French Onion soup so I used it to make Fondue for Moe and I to share. Served with fresh baguette baked this morning.

@Kim Shook, No I used a different recipe. One I found on BBC Food Recipes. I wanted to make one with white wine rather than red and this one was almost cooked in the oven. I just added it to the blog. Here is the link. Coq au Vin Blanc.

Thanks @Margaret Pilgrim. Tonight's dinner. Coq au Vin.

Baked a blueberry pie yesterday morning for dessert. We ended up going out for lunch and Moe didn't want much for dinner so we just had pie and ice cream.

We had hard-shell tacos for dinner Thursday night and for breakfast on Friday I made Moe a Taco salad. Thursday morning we had buttermilk blueberry scones with brown butter glaze.

Pulled a batard out of the freezer last night for dinner. It had been the freezer for two weeks. This bread was made using Roger's unbleached all purpose flour, not their commercial Silver Star bread flour.

Moe's birthday dinner. Cioppino with Dungeness crab, local spot prawns, clams and halibut. Dessert for Moe's birthday is always something with strawberries. This year I made a Strawberry Meringue Roulade.

@btbyrd, great photo. We ate big this morning so I made soup for dinner. French Onion soup.

@Kerry Beal, I think there are a few members that have the manual and some the digital I don't think it matters. https://forums.egullet.org/topic/153620-breville-smart-oven-vs-oster-dumb-oven/?page=6

My favourite time of day for breakfast is between 9:30 and 10:00. Works on my days off. I'm not an early breakfast fan, but I love eating between 9:30 and 10:00. Which works on my days off. So this morning I grilled burgers and we shared them on a platter board with homemade potato chips. We like our burgers differently. I'm a No Cheese, and No Mustard and definitely NO Ketchup kind of person. Just give me sliced tomatoes and thin sliced onion and I'm happy. In fact tomatoes are a must have. And if there is lettuce and dill pickle even better. Moe has to have onion and mustard and is happy with cheese and dill pickle. He will eat tomato and lettuce on his burger, but doesn't need it. No ketchup for Moe either.

Last night's dinner. Made the sauce and cooked the Italian Sausage and rapini before leaving for work yesterday morning. Stuffed shells with a mixture of ricotta with garlic, egg , mozzarella and parmesan and the sausage and rapini. Placed sauce in the bottom of a casserole dish, added the stuffed shells, topped with more sauce, and fresh mozzarella and parm and baked for 20 minutes.

@TdeV, not sure which recipe you wanted. If it is the Leek Spinach Tart I found the recipe here: Leek, Spinach and Feta Tart The only thing I did different was to add some roasted red peppers and to use homemade pastry. The pastry recipe is on this blog post: First Rhubarb Pie of the Season

Used the second quick puff pastry that I put in the fridge Wednesday night to make a Leek, Spinach and Feta Tart for dinner last night. I might never buy puff pastry again. This one is quick and easy to make. I also added some roasted red peppers to the tart.

I really love my Breville PC. I was late getting home from work tonight. Didn't get dinner started until almost six pm. But we were eating by 7:10. Lamb shanks cooked in the Breville PC. Mashed potatoes, steamed green beans and radishes. ETA: And dessert is served.

Rhubarb Pie destined for tonight's dessert. But depending on how I feel after work, it might just become dinner. All butter pastry made before I went to bed last night. Pulled the rhubarb this morning and got the pie into the oven early.

Tonight's dinner. Thai Red Chicken Curry. And a very nice Okanagan Pinot Grigio from Rust Wine Co.

Just noticed that the Oster French Door oven is on sale at $109.99 at Costco Canada. That is the best price I have seen on it. If I had the space I would buy a second one.

Well, maybe. I know you probably wouldn't be disappointed. And they are usually on at a very good price. Costco here has the manual one on for the low price of $109.99. That is the lowest I have seen. I think I paid $169 for the digital model. I used the CSO and the Oster exclusively. So far I haven't found anything that I can't bake or roast in at least one of them. The Oster will even hold a 6 qt dutch oven , a 15 1/5" X 13" baking sheet and I have a stone that is 15" by 13 for breads. If I had room I would be tempted to buy another one, but since I still have a second CSO in a box, probably won't.

Today's bake. Fed my starter this morning and decided I wanted to bake today. rather than make a biga and wait for it to double, I just added 80g of the discard into a batch of dough along with 3g of yeast. Starter doubled in less than seven hours and it is back in the fridge. I've been trying to remember to feed it once a week. Baked four batards and four small bun size rounds. Started each loaf off in the CSO using the bread steam setting. After 10 to 12 minutes moved the loaf to the Oster to finish baking. This method allows me to bake a number of loaves with the benefit of the steam, in a short period of time.

@Okanagancook, We got married in 1979. Will be married 40 years come August 25th. But we were together 6 years before we married.

@JoNorvelleWalker, we worked that out 46 years ago. He is just happy to have a salad whenever I want to make him one. Tonight's dinner. I asked Moe earlier today what he would like for dinner and the answer was Chicken Piccata. So that is what we had. With a side of pasta Aglio E Olio. I always make it with green peppercorns because I don't like capers.

I wasn't hungry last night so it was a good time to make Moe something he likes more than me. A salad. Grilled Prawns with avocado.