Happy July! June was a quiet month around here, with school getting out, and families traveling after big graduation events or simply being released from the daily school schedule. We even were the recipients of a wrapping on the house. Here in Texas when someone "toilet papers' your home as a prank, it is called a wrapping. And now it is July...and we are joining Sherry for In My Kitchen her monthly event where we all get caught up with one another, sharing all the kitchen activity from the month before!
July has always been a hot one, everywhere I have ever lived!
From California (my birth state), to Washington state, Oregon for a short time. Back to Washington, then Montana, Wyoming and now here in East Texas! And each home in each of these states has been the same in July, happy, food filled and with family around the table. But I have to be honest I have had zero interest in cooking dinner so far this summer, and I don't see a change in that weather very soon, LOL! Which means I really need to step up my coking game! This is summer time, food sharing time, food harvest time, food preservation time. It clearly is not time for zero interest.
I have been working on bread.
Whole Wheat Sourdough Sandwich Bread to be exact. I had developed, baked and even posted a final recipe about making sandwich bread using the whole wheat sourdough starter that I made for myself. And the bread was delicious, but there was a small large problem. The slices were too big to fit in the toaster! And as a toast lover I knew that must be remedied immediately. So I returned the post to draft and I have been working on taking what was a two loaf recipe and tweaking it to be a three loaf recipe with the same flavor, texture and softness. Needless to say it did not get republished in June, making my new recipes list a bit on the small side....
But around here bread is my staple food. It is eaten daily.
As a kid I loved white bread, but it was the only bread I knew. Even when mom baked it was white bread. It wasn't until about eight years ago that I even considered whole wheat bread for my family, and our daily bread. Being a late bloomer to the practice of whole food ingredients, I am still getting it all done right! Bread is usually the one thing that most folks can and do give up, but after healing from years of ulcers, it is the one thing I can always eat! Needless to say, a nutritious, high quality bread is quite important in my kitchen. Fortunately I have nine hens and one rooster that help with the failed loaves as recipe development continues on.
Oh, and I also started working on Laurie Colwin's Gingerbread with Chocolate Icing, in whole wheat of course. Because you can't live on bread alone! We will need to bake this one again (of course!) and stack it up with raspberry jam in the middle, as Laurie suggests! These two lovelies will show up in July!
New posts for June include:
Braised Cucumbers in Cream, from Julia Child. Let me just tell you, these are quite delicious! I would never have thought to cook cucumbers, but I urge you to give this dish a try. Plus with cucumbers in the garden, I have tasked myself with trying something new to us, each year...and being in charge of following through on my tasks, I have found a couple of delicious recipes that I would have never thought of before. This is one of those recipe finds...
Pork Steaks Braised in Milk. A cooking method I had remembered one day, and decided to try it out for my own dinner, some decades later! We enjoyed this method multiple times due to a good buy on pork and it seemed only natural to post it! Plus this braising method is hands free, and if you have a canning kitchen away from your everyday kitchen, the heat from the oven is out there...
And,
Please offer some wild and open space, for Homestead Sunday #9. We are big on the birds, the bees and the fireflies around here! And have been for a long time. This post is a monthly continuation of my Homestead Sunday series where I show a bit about what we do on our little homestead.
And June saw one other accomplishment, all of the older posts on Scratch Made Food! & DIY Homemade Household have been updated!
And with that, June has been reported. Funny while it doesn't look like much on paper when listed, June has been as busy as any month, only hotter than usual. But before speaking too soon, about hot weather, July is our hottest month here in East Texas...how about you? How did your own June shape up, drop a comment, I love hearing about it all!
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