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Tomorrow’s project is a Greek olive bread. The recipe makes 2 loaves but I will try to make one large and 2 small since I want to share with my father in law and my next door neighbor. I will need to be very careful about cooking times. They are free form loaves so I won’t have to worry about loaf pans.
i am a little worried about the recipe’s test for doneness. You tap the loaf on the bottom and listen for a hollow sound?
i am a little worried about the recipe’s test for doneness. You tap the loaf on the bottom and listen for a hollow sound?
I'd use a standard time (say, 35-40 minutes for a free-form loaf) and then would use the color of the crust as the primary indicator of doneness (looking for a fair bit of browning and caramelization). You could take internal temperature with a meat probe, but that seems excessive. Finally, you could cut off the oven around 40 minutes and then crack the oven door to let the loaves coast a bit and firm up the insides.
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I have a request for cauliflower. I bought 2 heads and will follow the recipe and try it out on Wednesday.
https://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/...ed-cauliflower
550 degrees!! I didn’t even know our oven went that high (yes it does!)
https://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/...ed-cauliflower
550 degrees!! I didn’t even know our oven went that high (yes it does!)
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Well, we had an interesting day. Made rosemary bread with one son and nachos 🙄 with the other. I will say, both were huge hits. The teens esp enjoyed building their personal mountain of nachos and pork and beans and cheese and guacamole. Not exactly “cooking” but a successful dinner for the kids.
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I’m almost embarrassed to tell you. Pancho’s cheese sauce. From Costco. My 20 year old basically has an IV feed of that stuff.
The dollop to left of guac is sour cream with some chipotle peppers in adobo sauce. Gives a nice kick and smoke flavor.
The dollop to left of guac is sour cream with some chipotle peppers in adobo sauce. Gives a nice kick and smoke flavor.
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My suggestion if you have a large post, type it out in Microsoft Word first, then copy and paste it into a post. This will avoid having to retype it if your browser crashes in the future as well as allow you to edit it before posting. Just trying to help.
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It's appreciated. I've been working from a laptop the last week while we get settled into a new place and I hadn't disabled the mousepad yet. I'll use that method in the future though and save myself some ripped hairs.
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The hollow sound test is fairly standard, but I admit it's hard to tell for sure simply based on knocking on the loaf.
I'd use a standard time (say, 35-40 minutes for a free-form loaf) and then would use the color of the crust as the primary indicator of doneness (looking for a fair bit of browning and caramelization). You could take internal temperature with a meat probe, but that seems excessive. Finally, you could cut off the oven around 40 minutes and then crack the oven door to let the loaves coast a bit and firm up the insides.
I'd use a standard time (say, 35-40 minutes for a free-form loaf) and then would use the color of the crust as the primary indicator of doneness (looking for a fair bit of browning and caramelization). You could take internal temperature with a meat probe, but that seems excessive. Finally, you could cut off the oven around 40 minutes and then crack the oven door to let the loaves coast a bit and firm up the insides.
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I have a request for cauliflower. I bought 2 heads and will follow the recipe and try it out on Wednesday.
https://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/...ed-cauliflower
550 degrees!! I didn’t even know our oven went that high (yes it does!)
https://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/...ed-cauliflower
550 degrees!! I didn’t even know our oven went that high (yes it does!)
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The recipe guideline is 40 minutes so your advice is sound. I like the idea of cutting the heat and cracking the oven door. Do you have a suggestion for time on half loaves? I was thinking of 5 minutes less. I’ll thump them but I’m not all that confident about what hollow will sound like.
And I agree that the sound is tough to go by and that I worry I'm into overdone territory by the time I get what I consider a hollow sound.
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I love cauliflower, but my favorite of all time is the dish served at Girl & The Goat here in Chicago. The recipe is all over the internet, maybe even still on the restaurant's site. Just Google "Girl and the goat cauliflower recipe" and I'm sure it will come up. There are a lot of ingredients and it takes a fair amount of prep time, but it's delicious. Worth a try if you get another request .
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I’ve been watching a lot of food porn on Netflix. I showed my wife some interesting ones from Nadiya’s Time to Eat. She made a beef Wellington meatloaf type dish last week. This week, I’ve been craving a nice chicken pot pie. She made some today! A little underseasoned, but that was easily fixed with some salt and coarse black pepper.
I’m pretty lucky!
I’m pretty lucky!
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I’ve been watching a lot of food porn on Netflix. I showed my wife some interesting ones from Nadiya’s Time to Eat. She made a beef Wellington meatloaf type dish last week. This week, I’ve been craving a nice chicken pot pie. She made some today! A little underseasoned, but that was easily fixed with some salt and coarse black pepper.
I’m pretty lucky!
I’m pretty lucky!
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Report back (with pics) on the cauliflower please for when I go to the store again in a week and get some. Right now I am working my way through the pillowcase sized package of haricots vert that I got at Costco yesterday.
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The steak garnish today was lime, cilantro, Red onion, and mint. A cute salad with steak slices on top. I just had steak slices with tortilla chips and salsa for the chips. I felt the steak was great enough to not need green garnish.