If I sit, they flock to me. Dog sitting my daughter’s two mini schnauzers. For little dogs they crank out serious body heat. So happy my minis and Labradoodle enjoy having Lola and Loki over. They go home tomorrow. I warned my daughter they would be returned spoiled rotten 😂

GM! The sun is slowly burning the mist off the ridge. Not sure how the peaches will turn out, they seem to have stalled. Tree is still a baby, our neighbor’s tree is loaded. I did trade eggs for some of his peaches. Whipped up salted caramel coffee creamer. Should be a good day!

Made a sourdough boule yesterday with the express purpose of creating this: blueberry toaster strudel inspired French toast. Used leftover filling and icing from the blueberry rolls.

Wow guess they don’t care for my comments on chickens 😂 second one in a handful of days over feathers on a chicken.

What’s your favorite salt to use when cooking? Looking to add new salts to the line up. Left - right: black Himalayan, kosher sea salt, Maldon finishing sea salt, Celtic grey sea salt and pink Himalayan. I do need more smoked sea salt.

Made a batch of sourdough oatmeal raisin cookies, husband’s favorite, and have a double batch of sourdough in autolyse stage right now. I will turn that into one regular boule and three small boules. Did you bake today?

GM X friends! We recently bought 2 Mammoth Jalapeño plants from Home Depot as we had success with them last year. I saved seeds from a 5 1/2 inch pepper to cultivate in the spring. Next three days will be nice and warm 90°+ then rain. Weirdest summer we’ve had in 5yrs.

It’s absolutely wild &unruly right now but this passive mini pasture will turn into an amazing spring garden. Flax, buckwheat, rye, oat, wheat, wild radish, purple clover, plantain &volunteer tomatoes are growing here. Pollinator paradise. Last photo has a chonk of a bee napping.

You can just make your own ketchup. Simple ingredients, 20 minutes cook time, small batch. Way better than off a shelf in a store. This will be used to make bbq sauce this evening for dinner.

To go with the 20 minute homemade ketchup, a homemade smoky 20 minute BBQ sauce. I used Guajillo chili powder and a Bourbon honey from Baton Rouge. Ancho chili powder also works in place of the chipotle powder. I also doubled the recipe and blended it before bottling.

I’m so looking forward to tomorrow morning’s coffee! Thanks Stocking Mill Coffee my son is going to love the duck.

If you bake non-sourdough goods and want to start making those good with sourdough, here are the formulas I follow to convert my favorite regular baking recipes to be a sourdough recipe. These are based on 100% hydration starter/discard.

I had a massive fail yesterday. I put my starter in the oven w/the light on to help it get going. I forgot it was in there. Yup, baked my starter. Super mad at myself I pulled a jar of collected discard from the fridge, fed it & hoped for the best. I’d say it’s going to be ok.

Sourdough dog cookies are done and are dog approved. They’d like another please.

All but one hen laid today and I collected 8 eggs. Was surprised 8 laid with the heat we’ve had. Then again they did pick the tree clean of cicadas. Yesterday morning they were doing their thing. Today silence 😂

After I recovered from killing my starter, I made these. Sourdough Scottish Cream Buns. Homemade vanilla simple syrup brushed on top and filled with homemade vanilla whipped cream. First time I’ve converted this recipe to sourdough. It’s a winner.

I do love a cotton candy sunset!