7
votes
What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking?
What food and drinks have you been enjoying (or not enjoying) recently? Have you cooked or created anything interesting? Tell us about it!
What food and drinks have you been enjoying (or not enjoying) recently? Have you cooked or created anything interesting? Tell us about it!
I tried out this focaccia recipe! Just to be upfront: I used whole wheat flour and didn’t adjust any ratios, so this is totally my fault, but it didn’t wind up terribly fluffy. Next time I’ll make some adjustments to convince it to rise more (and I might sub out part of the olive oil, which is pretty pricey these days …), but it was nice to bake some bread again.
I also lugged my air fryer outside to bake it, which was a nice way to avoid heating up the apartment.
I love the no knead dough recipes especially after a couple days of additional cold fermentation in the fridge. All of my dough seems to magically turn into pizza.
Sounds like you are 95 percent of way to making some great pizza/focaccia. I would be interested to know what you end up changing to increase the rise.
I have a freshly bought bag of whole wheat flour to experiment with.
So I’m a terrible baker, but my instinct is to:
I’ll try that out eventually, but I figured I’d respond now so I can refer back to this post when I get around to it!
I dusted off my bread machine and made some bread using the 50:50 whole wheat/white flour recipe @ISO3103 mentioned back in the bread machine post.
The loaf turned out great, dense with a nice crust and unsurprisingly delicious with a little butter. Much nicer than the strange white bread recipe that came with the machine. For the next batch I will scale it up 20-30% since it didn't quite fill out my pan.
20% scaled recipe in bread machine order:
I'm glad that the recipe is working out for you :)
I did Cinnamon Rolls the other day. Fully from scratch. I think I under salted the dough because they got a resounding thumbs down from everyone.
Well, my coworkers enjoyed them when I brought in the rejects. That said, glaze and cinnamon sugar was on point and the rolls weren't that bad. Maybe I'll try again this weekend. Maybe I'll just find an audience that appreciates me getting up three hours early to make cinnamon rolls for them. Ah hell, I had fun and tried something new.
I recently bought an Instant Pot and made some Chicken Chili Verde and it turned out decent. Hoping to utilize the instant pot a fair bit as the idea of set it and forget it recipes are very appealing to me.
Followed a pretty simple "recipe". I bought 2lbs of chicken breasts along with a 16oz (~500ml) jar of Salsa Verde. Simply saute the chicken in the instant pot for a few minutes, dump in the jarred salsa, and pressure cook for ~15 minutes. Naturally vent for 5-10 minutes and then shred the chicken. One thing I'd definitely change is to use chicken thighs instead of breasts. I bought breasts as the store I shopped at didn't have thighs. The taste is find with breasts but it is a bit dry. The flavors are on point though and it was great over a bowl of rice with a sprinkle of cheese.