Country Style Sourdough Bread is rich with sourdough flavor. This is a basic white sourdough bread, nothing fancy, but a great way to familiarize yourself with incorporating sourdough into your kitchen routine. Worth your Time Don’t be intimidated by the process of making sourdough. The routine is easy enough and definitely worth your time. You will need Sourdough Starter to make Country Style Sourdough Bread and you can find the recipe here. For both the starter and the bread recipe, ...
Sourdough Starter might seem like a daunting project to make from scratch. If you have a few days and a little patience, you can make your own starter from scratch. Sourdough Starter is a Living Dough Back in the day, all breads needed a fermented dough to initiate the rising process of bread. Sourdough Starter is a living dough that functions like the yeast you add from packets. However, taking care of a living dough can be a chore. Instant yeast in a dry packet form was invented for ...
Honey Walnut Pear Cake was developed in a moment of desperation. My husband raises bees in our front yard. Every so often an avalanche of honey will flow into our kitchen. What a sweet dilemma! I never have enough honey recipes so I thought I would develop a few. The Simple Flavors of Autumn I love recipes that don’t require a series of complicated techniques or esoteric ingredients. Pears, walnuts, honey – most of us have these in our Autumn line up of flavors. Combined in a cake, they ...
Fresh Plum Cheesecake with plum syrup is one of the best desserts I have ever tasted. Of course, we are making this cake for the cheesecake part, but dang! The syrup is like sipping heaven! Fresh Plum Cheesecake is delicious You will need fresh Italian plums for this Fresh Plum Cheesecake with Plum syrup. Honestly, here in Texas we rarely find these types of plums at the supermarket. If you can’t find them, you can certainly substitute whatever stone fruit is available at your super ...
Quick Pickled Vegetables is a rather free form recipe but have faith that it will work out. The idea is to not stress yourself out with accuracy, but to build your confidence that you can “whip up” some homemade pickled jalapeños, pickled onions, or any other pickled vegetable. If you can boil water and own…
Keto Chipotle Meatloaf with Roasted Vegetables is the perfect recipe if you are watching your carbs. It’s just like your grandmother’s meatloaf but instead of breadcrumbs I am going to add minced onions and mushrooms which keeps the meatloaf moist. Other than that, this recipe is fairly conventional and I like that it’s a one…
Maple Oatbran Bread is not a quick and easy bread to make. Nope. This is one of those breads that will take you the entire afternoon to bake. But as I write this, summer rain is pounding on the roof of my kitchen and my truck is in the repair shop. I have the time….
Salmorejo is a chilled summer soup from Spain and is very similar to gazpacho. Both are made with fresh tomatoes and garlic, but salmorejo is enriched with bread and topped with olive oil, jamon serrano and chopped hardboiled eggs. As you can see in my photo, I was so excited about diving into my bowl…
Hi! I’m Melissa Guerra! I live on a working cattle ranch with my husband, who is a rancher and artist. We have 3 grown kids, 3 dogs and a 34 year old macaw named Pepito...