I have now fiddled so much with the photos and table, so, enjoy the photos!

The first set of photos shows the progress from a nice, ripe and bubbly sourdough starter to mixing the dough and putting it in the fridge for overnight cool proofing.

You can see quite nicely how the dough kept on developing overnight. I knew last night that I didn't want to make bread otherwise I would have shaped a bread loaf and stored it in a banneton overnight. This time I was going to make

Breadlings

a.k.a. rolls or dinner rolls. There wasn't much shaping involved, none actually. I took the dough out of the bowl, put it on a floured surface and divided it into 12 (?) differently shaped little dough pieces.

I placed them on a baking paper into my Dutch oven and baked each batch for about 30 - 35 minutes, 10 minutes on high heat and the remaining time on moderate heat.

Then they had to cool down before, finally, two of them found their way onto our breakfast table and into our tummies.

The verdict:

Awesome! They were slightly crusty on the outside, chewy but airy on the inside - perfect!

Happy Weekend!
OceanBee

Last night's dinner was born out of the fact that we ran out of fresh alternatives of chicken or fish, our usual staples to have for dinner with salad. Since I felt lazy, it's the weekend after all, I didn't feel like going shopping, I started checking our pantry for something, for an inspiration.

And inspiration struck in the form of: Garbanzo beans, also known as chick peas. We love those little bundles of healthy protein. Add them to salad, roast and spice them, make them into a pate or hummus or a good ol' German pea soup, they are extremely versatile.

But what I had in mind was a protein main to be accompanied by a mixed greens salad with honey vinaigrette, hence I made veggie burgers.

Earlier in the day we had talked about potato pancakes or hashbrowns or rösti in Switzerland. Luckily I had some potatoes on hand, unlucky for me they were small which makes them harder to hold when grating them. Yet somehow I managed to not get any of my fingers into the mix.

And thus our two patties dinner with salad was created. I added a little roasted garlic aioli to the rösti and a spicy habanero aioli to the bean patty.

I dare say it was a pretty good dinner - yum!

Cheers,
OceanBee