Day 31 : Thursday 23rd April, 2020

Breakfast: Boiled Egg & Toast Soldiers
Lunch: Home made Baguette, Cheese, Pate, Peppers
Dinner: Pork, Green Pepper & Onion Quesadilla, Guacamole, Pico de Gallo

Baguettes

Baguette

Breakfast: Another egg cup and cosy from Maggie's collection

Boiled Egg

Lunch: Trying a few different French Bread Recipes. This one turned out ok and is the easiest recipe I am going to try. This was cooked in the fan oven on full and it worked out well. The dough was prepared in the Bread Machine and then hand-shaped. The next try with this recipe will be to cook it in the Monolith Grill where higher temperatures can be reached.

Crust and Crumb

The crust is good and crispy and the crumb nicely formed

Dinner: Quesadilla is a variation of the Nachos we cooked recently. Cook pork (or chicken etc) in slices, and Fajita spices and oil. Add peppers and onions, toast tortillas in a pan on both sides. Add the cooked meat, peppers and onions and a good sprinkling of grated cheese, add a little squeeze of lime, fold and heat gently until the cheese has melted

Maggie will often have this for dinner with our friends Olga & Steve Jones when we visit and stay with them at the their lovely home in Manteca, California

Quesadilla

Some leftovers from this evening will be going into a tortilla soup

Comments

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