Polly's Sourdough Bread

This is another adventure in baking bread at home.  The recipe for the preferment dough turned out pretty interesting.  Nothing special.  It's the same old Flour, water, yeast, Kosher salt. The bread proofed and rose and baked to my satisfaction in my ordinary home gas oven.   
Ingredients
Preferment Dough Overnight:
Bread Flour 14.06 oz
Water 9.125 oz
Yeast 0.0625 oz
Salt 0.25 oz

Final Dough:
Bread Flour 32.375 oz
Water 19.4375
Yeast 0.0625
Salt 0.3125
Honey 0.125
Preferment we Dough 11.75
Poppyseeds 1 Tbsp

KABOCHA POTATO Soup with Tabasco Sauce

Ha!  Wonderful spicy heat to warm me up.

Preroast your favorite KABOCHA.

Dice half a onion.

Dice a peeled potato.

Make a mirepoix. 

Heat sauteuse and add 2 tsp of EVOO. 

Sauté onion for 30 seconds, then add potato and sauté for 2 min without browning onion or the potato.

Add 1 C organic chicken stock

Add 1/2 C water

Add mirepoix.

Cook to Reduce.  

Scoop 1 C of cooked KABOCHA and add to soup.

Add salt and black pepper to taste

Add to a blender to blend.

When smoothly blended put it through the sieve over a bowl.

Serve in soup bowl with sprinkles of Tabasco Sauce.

Enjoy.

Teriyaki Salmon Salad from the GreenChef

This is one of the dinner menu my family member ordered from the Green Chef -online grocery.

The most interesting ingredients was the black bean noodle.  Teriyaki sauce was a bit non-conventional mixture compared to what we are used to.   The tangy cucumber salad complimented the Salmon filet overall.