T Stands for Tuesday & More Baking in the Dutch Ovens-Over & Under the Coals

 Hi everyone, those of you in the States hoping your Labor Day weekend was awesome. 
   The weather was perfect for us here in the Ozarks with Monday being the exception with the very hot temperatures and high humidity returning.

   T Stands for Tuesday where we share a drink related post, find the link in my right hand column that will take you to our hostess Bleubeard and Elizabeth.

     The first thing I want to share is the lovely postcard I won from Val. (oops should read Valerie) It arrived so fast in the mail I couldn't believe it and l love this quote so much that I was so happy to win this one. The link will take you to her gardening post that I really loved too.
    Sorry I did not share this sooner at the time I was immersed in canning tomatoes and relishes and forgot.  It has found a home on my refrigerator door so I can view it easily along with my Yellowstone magnets.

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  I decided for this 3 day weekend-although being retired every day is a weekend now lol-I would do lots of baking in my cast iron dutch ovens. 

   Saturday I baked up another lemon meringue pie and a gluten free zucchini bread. Both turned out really nice.

   Sunday ended up being a very long day out in the heat for most of it.  I have neglected the wheat and rye sourdough starters for a couple of months now and they both just needed to be fed really well and used. My original thoughts were to make rye bread and pizza dough for hubs. 

    I hadn't read the recipe the night before for sourdough pizza and it needed very little rise time so decided not to do that this time. 

     I ended up making two loaves of sourdough caraway rye bread and two loaves of sourdough cinnamon raisin bread. I was jumping for joy how well these baked up---well almost jumping for joy (smiles) as by the end I was really hot and my back was hurting a bit from picking up the two dutch ovens a few times-but all was good I enjoyed the day.

   However, I will not be following the instructions by Lodge on how many coals to place on top and the bottom of the dutch oven according to size and temperature. They wanted 19 charcoal on top and 10 on the bottom I really thought that was odd and not right but since I had not baked yeast bread before and needed 400 degrees f for the rye I did it--wrong-- the tops got too brown (not burnt) and the bottoms needed more coals--so no more following directions lol 

the sourdough starters

The sourdough caraway rye bread risen in the pans and ready to be baked

The sourdough caraway rye bread out of the dutch oven. this bread came out so perfect. I can not eat gluten but I had to take one small bite of this one (something I Never do)-it was heavenly

Sourdough Cinnamon-raisin bread-this baked up so well too, and smells divine. I was short one large and wide bread pan so had to settle for the next size I had-when it rose it went over the sides-so after baked I had to cut that all off to get the bread out-kinda funny at the time.

I won't bake two breads like this again on the same day in the dutch ovens-I started at 9 am getting the coals going and ended around 5 pm  I definately got too much sun-but since it all baked up so well was worth it to me.

Today-Monday, I have bbq baby back ribs on the grill. I just need to check on them each hour and then run back into the a/c lol it is extremely hot here today.  I was going to cook the veggies on another grill but it is just too hot-so "cheating" and will finish up everything else in the house.

Yes I am still spinning bison yarn-loving it, and still reading in the evenings.

For my drink related photo I am sharing my favorite yellowstone cup filled with my dandelion root-chicory hot beverage with a splash of cream and a slice of my gluten free zucchini bread- that was still warm from baking-with cream cheese-fabulously delicious lol