Desayuno

Today I made my first real sourdough. Well, to be precise, today I baked my first real sourdough. Overall, the making of it was a three day process. I am posting a picture for now, and will be filling in the details, with a recipe, later.

These came to me in a dream. Well, not quite. I was lying in bed, and my mind was drifting around like it usually does right before I fall asleep, and all of a sudden I was thinking of the loukamades a friend of mine made a few weeks ago. And then I was thinking of goat cheese. And here we are! That doesn’t explain my attempt at a French name, but I didn’t know “spinach” in Greek. Read more

I have still not quite adjusted to a kitchen that is stocked for one person. All my life I have been in kitchens with food for six or eight. As one person it is difficult to keep five kinds of cheese on hand. Or to have ten pounds of various fresh produce. It would go bad before I could ever eat it. But sometimes the best recipes are the ones born of limited or seemingly mismatched ingredients.

This recipe came from having half a salt cod, a large plantain, a handful of pecan pieces, and some leftover black bean soup in the fridge. Well, it came from that and a desire to make something I had never made before. Read more