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We've been watching bake off and they did sausage rolls. I just had to try it. My wife made full puff pastry since we used it for a few things. https://www.paulhollywood.com/post/the-ultimate-sausage-roll Served with fries and I really liked it.

From Pastry School (eG-friendly Amawzon.com link) Beat and onion Tart. It's got puff pastry on the bottom, Next time we'll likely not invert it: None the less it was VERY tasty

So my wife is making a bean recipe for tonight that calls for tomatoes.. Can she opened had the tomatoes packed in puree. So I took a small head of garlic + hot pepper flakes in olive oil. And added the tomato puree and some cut up tomatoes (she didn't need all of them). Finish with basil (fresh plant in the kitchen keeps on giving), salt, tiny bit of sugar, small splash of red wine vinegar. Wow - amazing full tomato flavor sauce this is!

Many many lunches... we made 42 lefse this morning, first time I've counted the pile.

Finally got a Lamb Shank and made a curry from Modernist Cuisine. I striped the meat from the bone so it's not as pretty as the book. The salad it goes with is cucumber and black eye peas (sauteed so they might as well be nuts) Simply amazing!

My wife got a dozzen organic eggs yesterday for ~$5.25, they were cheaper then the non-organic. (This is in Minnesota)

So I tried to make sourdough and the starter failed. Added some yeast and made bread that worked but wasn't the best since I didn't wait long enough or something. So we made crutons with the one loaf that I made yesterday: This is ATK's 30 min tomato soup w/ our homemade croutons.

I made 3 lbs of meatballs. Here's 3 meatballs from it covered in a tomato sauce I whipped up from tomatoes my wife grew that were in the freezer: Quite tasty, this is why I love combustion inc's wireless thermometer. I cook these in the oven and pull when hit 160F so I don't get dried out overcooked meatballs!

Finally cooled off it's time to do Pizza! Of course today we set a record in the 70s.... but it cools down at night. MP Sauce and Crust, Onions + 1/2 sausage and 1/2 pinapple. So GOOD!

From This cookbook: (eG-friendly Amazon.com link) Lamb Shanks with saffron and pomegranate + lots more. The sauce is amazing so we made Couscous. The roasted carrot recipe is also from the cookbook, we used bulgar wheat - and a spicy sauce on them. Very pretty meal.

My very german lunch, sausage (cooked sousvide at 150f for an hour) and a home made pretzel (modernist bread) My

Buns from Modernist Bread, but I replaced about 25% of the Bread flour with Whole Wheat flour. I like this way a lot better. . Sloppy Joe is from Savory Spice their: Sweet Jerk Sloppy Joes Jerk flavor is really good - was easy to mix with 1 lbs of ground beef.

Tonight a new one from 1000 Indian Recipes page 348: Dried-Cooked Red Lentils with Cumin Seeds (and beets) The beets give it this fantastic color. There's a lot of flavor from a bunch of spices and a little heat from some dried red chili peppers.

Duck + Lamb Kefta Tagine from The New Mediterranean Table by Sam Wadi. I've posted about this before I discovered local lamp producer and have made quite a few meatballs out of lamb. So turns out the texture of duck is not the same as lamb... so about 8oz of Duck + 16 oz of Lamb = 2nd+ time we had this. Sauce is still amazing. Tomato, Egg, Urfa Biber Harissa, Preserved Lemon. Now with lamb - one of my favorite recipes.

https://arstechnica.com/health/2024/05/new-research-shows-gas-stove-emissions-contribute-to-19000-deaths-annually/ I love induction. But I don't think this will change much any time soon.