Food

Here is a loaf of sourdough bread I made back on September 24th, 2013. It involves making a starter and keeping it going in your refrigerator by "feeding" it. Some people keep their starter going for years.

These are the homemade rolls I made for Thanksgiving. They're actually the kind of rolls you would get in a steak house, but I really like them at home for just about any occasion, so that's what I go with. They're called Texas Roadhouse Rolls.

I made these loaves the night before last, and photographed them last night. The recipe is a copycat of the foot-long loaves Subway uses for their submarine sandwiches and it makes eight loaves. I'd already eaten two of them before I thought to photograph them. They are delicious! The baking sheet is the width of my full-sized stove, so you can tell how long they are.

Here's the six-inch submarine sandwich I fixed for dinner tonight with some of the fresh baked French bread I made tonight. Taken on March 1st, 2024, with my Sony Alpha SLT-a77V DSLR.

I made some small 12 inch loaves of bread today and they hadn't been out of the oven a half hour before I made this sandwich for lunch. There's nothing like the smell of fresh-baked bread. Taken on March 7th, 2025, with my Sony Alpha SLT-a77V DSLR.

These are some yeast rolls I made Sunday while over at some friend's house to sing karaoke. I started them at my house, and shaped them and let them rise the final time once I got there. They're called Texas Roadhouse Rolls, and here's the recipe: Texas Roadhouse Rolls Ingredients: 4 tsp. active dry yeast 1/2 c. warm water 2 c. milk, scalded and cooled to lukewarm 3 Tbl. of melted butter, slightly cooled 1/2 c. sugar 2 quarts all purpose flour (7-8 cups) (My total ended up being 8 1/2 cups) 2 whole eggs 2 tsp. salt Directions: Dissolve yeast in warm water with a teaspoon of sugar; let stand until frothy. Combine yeast mixture, milk, 1/2 cup sugar and enough flour to make a medium batter (about the consistency of pancake batter). Beat thoroughly. Add melted butter, eggs and salt. Beat well. Add enough flour to form a soft dough. Sprinkle a small amount of flour onto counter and let dough rest. Meanwhile, grease a large bowl. Knead dough until smooth and satiny and put in greased bowl; turn over to grease top. (I used the dough hook on my Kitchen-Aid to knead this for about 4-5 minutes). Cover and let rise in a warm place until double in bulk. Punch down. Turn out onto a floured board. Divide into portions for shaping; let rest 10 minutes. Shape dough into desired forms. Place on greased baking sheets. Let rise until doubled. Bake at 350 degrees for 10-15 minutes or until golden brown. Baste immediately with butter. Yield: 2 1/2 dozen.

A loaf of French bread I made over 20 years ago - I've been thinking about making some again. This image was taken from a videotape I recorded back in the early 1990s.

I made a couple loaves of French bread tonight for dinner. It was the first time I'd made it in probably 30 years. But, it turned out delicious! I sliced a piece off one loaf and made a sandwich with it. Taken on March 1st, 2024, with my Sony Alpha SLT-a77V DSLR.

After watching The Ten Commandments again and seeing them eat the flat breads throughout the movie, it put me in the mood for some. So, I made some pita bread today for gyros. The gyro I had for dinner was excellent, if I do say so myself. I also spent the day making some dandelion wine as well. That will take a while before it's finished and then has to age for a year before opened.

So, I baked some Pita bread this afternoon. It's because I was going to make Greek gyros for dinner tonight. (Which I did.) Taken on December 31st, 2024, with my Sony Alpha SLT-a77V DSLR.

This is what I made for dinner tonight - Greek gyros. They were all homemade, with the traditional lamb meat, tzatziki sauce made with cucumbers, and of course big chunks of tomato - all on fresh pita bread I baked this afternoon. (I cooked the lamb meat and made the tzatziki sauce yesterday so it would be ready for today.) Taken on December 31st, 2024, with my Sony Alpha SLT-a77V DSLR.

Who doesn't like these little smokey links wrapped in biscuits? This is a batch I made back in 2012. I take them to a lot of functions I attend - they're easy to eat and not messy. Plus, both kids and adults like them.

You know those big, buttery-sweet rolls you get at steak restaurants? I have a recipe for them and made them again yesterday afternoon for dinner last night. They're called Texax Roadhouse Rolls. Those things are delicious! You melt a little butter over them as soon as they come out of the oven and they almost melt in your mouth. Needless to say, the recipe makes several, about 3 dozen, so I'll be enjoying these for a few more days to come! As always, if anybody would like the recipe for any of the food pictures I post, I can provide it as well.

Here's the sourdough bread I made on Wednesday, January 31st, 2018. The loaf looks kind of small because, by the time I was able to photograph it, half of it had been eaten! Man, it sure was good straight out of the oven with butter spread over it. As you can see, it has a good texture and I could slice it real thin and it held together well.

Tonight, I made this bread recipe for the first time. It's for sandwich bread like you buy at the store and I was skeptical it would turn out like it was supposed to. But, it did - I was amazed. It tasted like store-bought bread and was even light and fluffy, too. It turned out so well, I sliced some of it off and made a couple grilled cheese sandwiches with it. They were delicious as well! Taken on January 12th, 2025, with my Sony Alpha SLT-a77V DSLR.

This is my first attempt at making cocktail bread, which I did yesterday. For an early birthday present, my sister got me a pan to make loaves this size - it makes three loaves only 2 inches high. And they turned out great! The flour cannister was a wedding present my late parents received in 1959 when they got married.

These are the grilled cheese sandwiches I made with the first homemade sandwich bread I made tonight. They were very tasty! Taken on January 12th, 2025, with my Sony Alpha SLT-a77V DSLR.

Yeast rising for some rolls I made recently.