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Sourdough Pancakes Recipe

chefRob — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:42:58 +0000

Leftover starter seems to be the bastard child in the sourdough cooking world. Cruise the search engines and you will see recipes that tell you to toss out a portion of the starter before you refresh your little pot of love before making your latest loaf of bread. As we discussed in the crepe [...]

Sourdough Crepes Recipe

chefRob — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:30:02 +0000

Sourdough crepes

What should you do with that leftover starter that your sourdough recipe tells you to toss out before you feed the mother again? Well…you could just be a mindless cow and toss it away. Not being one who follows the “herd mentality” may I suggest that you find something useful to [...]

Sourdough Bread Recipe – pt 2

chefRob — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:30:07 +0000

Sourdough bread

Wow…ok so we are back to the sourdough bread recipe. It should be known (if you don’t know this already) that wild yeasts are sometimes a finicky lot, and mine was or is no exception. I took 3 attempts to make a loaf that I was proud of and now finally we can [...]

Sourdough Starter – Sourdough Bread pt 1

chefRob — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:00:55 +0000

And so it goes…winter, rain and wind. I can find nothing better to do on a blustery day than to bake. So since it is blustery here and I have nothing to do…we are going to go through the process and bake naturally leavened sourdough bread. San Francisco made be famous for sourdoughs, but lemme [...]

Flax Bread Recipe

chefRob — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:55:03 +0000

Flax Bread Recipe

Start your year off with this great Flax bread recipe.

The New Year always seems to start with a big thud around here, with the rush of the holidays being over and the partying that accompanies this subsides. Trading in your beer or cocktail for that New Year’s resolution is [...]

Wild Turkey Cobbler with Cranberries and Peas – Thanksgiving Leftover Recipe

chefRob — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:30:07 +0000

Image courtesy of @KyleOfThrillist (twitter)

Doesn’t it seem that every year the leftovers from Thanksgiving just grow and grow? Not only does it add some pressure to make sure you use them all up before they become dog food or spoil can sometimes be a daunting task. You want to be creative but at [...]

Thanksgiving 2011, Thrillist and chefRob

chefRob — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:15:51 +0000

So the holidays have begun. Family, friends, parties, photographs, high balls and hangovers. Now that we are deep into the season one question always pops up…what to do with the leftovers? If you are wondering how to be creative and at the same time get rid of some of your holiday leftover food take [...]

Chefs Blogs & the State of the Blogosphere 2011

chefRob — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:30:51 +0000

It seems like only yesterday I switched over from my old, crusty html site and created my blog. The reasoning behind it was simple…I no longer had to create/update pages in dreamweaver/golive and upload them to the server. The new “free” CMS (content management system) system would take care of all that for [...]

Mung Bean Soup – Ginisang Mungo Recipe

chefRob — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:48:55 +0000

Mung Bean Soup - Ginisang Mungo

Ginisang mungo, or mung bean soup is one of those timeless dishes. When the weather turned cold here the other day and I thought to myself that is was time to make a soup this is the one that popped into my head. Easy to cook, this [...]

Rillettes Recipe w/ Turkey – Thanksgiving leftover recipes

chefRob — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:00:12 +0000

Turkey Rillettes

Isn’t the “big” question always what to do with the leftovers from Thanksgiving. I mean really now…everyone has their grandmother’s gravy recipe, their mom’s stuffing recipe and pretty much everything else under the sun. Books have been written around holiday cooking and there are thousands of web sites offering up [...]