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Poached Fish “Soup”
Every Friday night, for Shabbat, we prepare a delicious meal that marks the end of our work week and ushers in the weekend. Sometimes we go all out with a fancy meal, other times we make something quick and easy, but we always create a wonderful, leisurely evening spent with food, each other, family and [...]
Roast Winter Squash
One of the items in this week’s Urban Organic box was a buttercup squash. I had never had a buttercup squash before, but it looked very similar to an acorn and kabocha squash, so I treated it the same way. We were planning a simple macrobiotic dinner (steamed collard greens, millet, roast squash and tofu), [...]
Posted in Macrobiotic, Recipes Also tagged Dinner, Easy, Macrobiotic, Organic, Recipes, Vegetarian 1 Comment
The Demise of the Stiff Levain Starter
Day 6:
After a slight mishap on Day 3, (in which “I poured the water from a gallon pitcher into a tiny tablespoon right over the bowl and too much poured out and got into the dough“), my 3rd attempt at making a sourdough starter using the yeast lying dormant in our apartment has failed.
The promise [...]
Stiff Dough Levain: Day 3
My little ball of flour and water seems to have ripened nicely. I’m picking up very tangy notes of fruitiness that weren’t there on day 1. Both yesterday and today there was some rising, probably a 50% increase, and I have seen, smelled, and tasted many of the signs that the book says [...]
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Polenta with Summer Squash and Semi-Poached Egg