The Moonlit Kitchen

Homemade Pita

thayn — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 22:55:57 +0000

I had a friend ask me for my pita bread recipe recently and thought I’d post it here as well.

I generally use sourdough but you can do it using store yeast as well.

1/2 cup warm water 2 tsp yeast 1 cup whole wheat flour (I make mine by grinding wheat berries in my Blendtec) 1 – 1 1/2 [...]

Mother’s Day 2010 – 9 Course Dinner

thayn — Mon, 10 May 2010 05:24:06 +0000

View Full Album

Sorry for the long stretch between posts, I’ve been busy prepping this year’s Mother’s day dinner. It was a big success and a ton of fun (and a tad bit tiring). I plan on writing a separate post for the recipe of each course, but here is a post with a pic [...]

Reuben Sandwiches on Sourdough Rye

thayn — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 06:56:34 +0000

This week I found a fun use for my leftover corned beef from St Patty’s day. Rueben sandwiches. I started by making sourdough rye bread. I basically used Peter Reinhart’s basic sourdough bread recipe as found in The Bread Baker’s Apprentice. To make it rye bread, I substituted 5 ounces of rye flour and a [...]

Bread Progress

thayn — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 06:00:45 +0000

I’ve been working on my bread making for several years now. I received The Bread Baker’s Apprentice by Peter Reinhart for Christmas and I’ve been baking quite a bit since then. I’ve tried various styles of bread but mainly I’ve dealt with wild yeasted breads (sourdough). For a few years I’ve been extracting various sourdough [...]

Mother’s Day 2009 – 9 Course Dinner

thayn — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:24:09 +0000

I was looking back through my posts recently and realized that I somehow missed posting about last year’s Mother’s day. I’m now working on this year’s menu so I thought I’d post what I did last year. Every year we try to out do the previous year. The rule has always been to use original [...]

Ramen with Pork Belly

thayn — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:04:56 +0000

When most people think of ramen in the US, they probably think of the $0.15 food that we all eat in college. That’s actually pretty sad because ramen is one of the tastiest Asian noodles around. Here is a great clip from a famous Japanese film that touches on how seriously people can take ramen [...]

A Great Way to Blow my Diet – Homemade Hamburgers with Sweet Potato Fries

thayn — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:30:29 +0000

Recently I’ve been working on getting rid of some of that pesky winter weight. I’m prepping for a marathon and eating what I consider really boring diet food (1600 calories a day, lots of broiled chicken breast and quinoa). This weekend I did a ten miler then didn’t have much time to eat so [...]

Blinis with Fresh Poached Dungeness Crab and Avocado Salad

thayn — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:24:44 +0000

My wife and I were recently invited to a really fun surprise birthday party for a friend of ours. He, and most of his friends, are big foodies and in the past we’ve gotten together to make food, each bringing 2-3 courses for a great big multi-course extravaganza. This time his wife invited a big [...]

Salmon Tagine with Chermoula over Quinoa

thayn — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:55:19 +0000

Since we are doing the whole New Years Resolution thing right now, we haven’t been cooking much in the way of ‘postworthy’ food. But tonight we had some very nice salmon ‘slow cooked’ in the tagine, you could use a Dutch oven or heavy braising pan with a lid.

We’ve been working hard these past few [...]

Ported my old posts over

thayn — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:30:02 +0000

I finished porting my old posts from my old blog today. I’ve been waiting to post new stuff until I did that. I guess you can now expect more stuff to show here. I’d like to post something at least once a week. It might be hard as we are working on losing the winter [...]