Some spelt #sourdough tonight. #cosobakes #CoSoCooks #breadposting

Homemade pizza and a bowl of soup for dinner.

The pizza has just homegrown cherry tomatoes on it with fresh mozzarella and salt, olive oil, and basil — what they called a Caprese or Vittoria when I was in Sicily.

It’s a 48-hour sourdough crust I made.

#pizza #CoSoCooks #cooking #dinner

I had a bunch of pics I couldn’t post yesterday, so I’ll share a few more today.

I went for a hike and saw these chonky bois on my drive home. Highland coos! No, not “cows.” They’re coos!

#vancouverisland #animals #nature #coos

I couldn’t post this yesterday when things were borked here — but this was the #sunrise from the place where I am housesitting. (Duncan, #BritishColumbia, on #VancouverIsland.)

I’ve been here over a month and this will likely be the sunrise I remember most. Just a moody, magnificent moment.

Trying new stuff. I have bad rosacea and have learned lately that wheat triggers it. So, I’m baking with spelt.

Last night I made tasty manchego spelt biscuits and baked some spelt sourdough bread. This morning, I finally tried the bread. If this is good for my skin, it’ll be a game changer. Very stoked. #bread #baking

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Novice #cooks get too anxious about making #soup. Chill, Winston.

Soup is about clearing out the fridge or freezer. If you know the process & you have the basics, you can always make a great soup.

Mirepoix is the onion/celery/carrot base — & you can chop extra to freeze for future soup-making simplicity.

Today, I used onions, carrots, leeks, garlic, a can each of diced tomatoes & white beans, pesto, a cheese rind, & stock for this.

#cooking #recipe #food #dinnertonight

SADNESS, I have to retire this Dr Oz meme now that he’s such a loooooooser.

Couple weeks ago, I made an 8-hour Bolognese. Pulled a bag out to make two individual baked spaghettis. I pulled the other one out 5 minutes early so I can reheat it perfectly on Thursday.

Huzzah!

#CookingTips: Always undercook the pasta by about 30% and add some pasta water to thin out your sauce. It will both absorb and evaporate as you bake it. #pasta #cooking #slowfood

Rookie mistake in timing fail — but the steak is part of that. I’ve never had a steak contract as much and become as thick as this skirt steak did, so I did not rest it for as long as I should have.

And every time I think “meh, how much can it matter…” I’m reminded just how much it does matter to rest your steak well.

But it was pretty good. Some chimichurri, roasted potatoes, broccoli.

Some of us are STILL making sourdough. I just passed my third anniversary of baking with #sourdough.

Finally got a good loaf out of my housesit kitchen. It’s hard to get the hang of it in a different environment but I’m stoked I got it right. Looking forward to breakfast.

This is 35% whole wheat.

Pizza night! This is with three-day-old sourdough crust — so good.

Tonight’s toppings:

Ricotta, rosemary, white pepper, Maldon flake salt, leeks, pistachios, prosciutto, and mozzarella.

Buddy here was checking out the #sunrise when I went to collect the empty trash bins this morning.

This was an incredible pizza. I highly recommend the recipe for dough I posted earlier. Toppings:

-shaved red onion
-salted pistachios
-rosemary
-flaked sea salt (Maldon)
-olive oil
-fresh mozzarella

It’s a weather migraine rainforest m night. The downpour is in about the 12th hour now. I’m enjoying it but my body hates it. Such is life I the rainforest of the rain coast.

Coastal BC’s Harbour Air Seaplanes gets you to some stunning places along the BC Coast. Everyone should have the experience of a seaplane flight at least once in their lifetime. It’s pretty neat.

But maybe not on a stormy day like today. :)

The storm foretold by this morning’s red sunrise is now upon us.

Back when I was playing nomad for a few years, I stayed in great places. I had just started a 3-week stay in a small town calls Cesky Krumlov in the Czech Republic six years ago this week. It was a moody beautiful little town that swarmed with daytrippers until 5 then emptied out for the evenings until noon.

Don’t just day trip. Stay the night in such places. It changes when everyone gets back on the tour bus.

If you don’t have tortilla chips but you have corn or flour tortillas, you can slice them into strips like I did. Spray with oil, sprinkle with salt, and throw them in an air fryer at 390 for about 5 minutes to get them crispy. Get ‘em extra crisp so they stand up to the soup. #CoSoRecipes #CoSoFood

Made an easy soup — sort of; I made the enchilada sauce myself & cooked chicken, but you can buy a can of enchilada sauce & roasted chicken to make it quickly.

Sauté your veggies — I got onions, leek, carrots, celery, and garlic — and add enchilada sauce, stock, chicken, and corn. Simmer until happy. Season well with salt.

You can complicate it with more stuff like Mexican oregano, bay leaves, etc. but basic is good.

Garnish with tortilla chips, avocado, green onions. Bonus points for lime.