First up, a delicious fajita combo that makes for a quick and easy dinner. Slice up some steak (or chicken if you'd rather), onions and green peppers with a splash of oil, salt, peppers, chili powder, paprika, bouillon, onion powder, minced garlic, cayenne pepper and cumin. Load into a small tortilla with avocado slices and sour cream (I may have overdone it a little...), and you've got yourself a good dinner.
Next up, a french-style bread and a couple ideas for dipping sauces. For the dough, start off by combining 3C warm water, 2C bread flour, 2C whole wheat flour, 2T honey and 2.25T activated yeast into a well-mixed soup, and let rise for about an hour. Mix in about 2.5C bread flour, 1C whole wheat flour and 4t salt, then kneed well. Let rise another hour, then form into loaves. To make the loaves (I made 3 loaves out of this recipe that each can serve 2-4 people) stretch the dough into a square, roll tightly and pinch the seams. Let rise another 30 minutes to an hour, then slash the loaf and bake at 425 for 10 minutes and then turn the oven down to 375 for another 35 minutes or until nicely browned. Wonderful right out of the oven, especially dipped in olive oil with Balsamic vinegar, Parmesan cheese, fresh herbs or garlic.
Finally, a tasty sweet corn soup. Boil 4C milk, 4C chicken stock, 6-12 ears of fresh sweet corn with the kernels cut off, 2t salt, 1t sugar half an onion, 5T butter, 1T flour, pepper, cumin, cayenne pepper, cardamom and salt in a stockpot for about an hour, then puree with an immersion blender until the desired consistency.
