Rottiedog, your Sir Lancelot recipe, titled "Bagels" is the same as the "Bagels" recipe posted on KAF which is my go-to bagel recipe!! Yours calls for Sir Lancelot flour and 1 1/2 cups of water and the posted recipe calls for bread flour and 1 1/3 cups of water. I often substitute 1 cup of whole wheat for one cup of the bread flour. This time I used 2 cups of bread flour and 2 cups of high gluten. I still used the 1 1/3 cups of water, so I assumed the difference in dough structure was the high gluten flour did not absorb as much of the water (and it was not a humid day, but rather dry).
Mike, if you go to the main store in Norwich, you can get 50 pound bags of Sir Lancelot, at least you could about a year ago. I've bought it for many years. If you ask one of the roving employees working the floor, they can get you most anything from the back room - and load it into your car!
The garbage disposal on the cleanup sink also needs replacing; the model we want (Insinkerator 1 HP) wasn't in stock yesterday, but should be available at Lowes next week. I'll ask the people repairing the dishwasher if they install garbage disposals, I'm not going to try to do it myself.
After my wife's fall while I was out of town, we're looking at putting a digital lock on one door so that someone can get in without a key in an emergency. I'll probably install that myself. (We had the lock on the door to the garage from inside the house fail last week, I was able to install the replacement parts once I got the stripped screw out, but spending an hour under a kitchen cabinet isn't something I want to do anymore, I installed a garbage disposal once, it took me half a day.)
We went ahead and ordered the new pump for the dishwasher and have a tech scheduled to look at the refrigerator and freezer on Tuesday. Hopefully both will be something easy to replace. (I fully expect the freezer to be the defrost timer, I'm hoping the refrigerator just needs a new thermostat.)
My goal is to get another few years out of these appliances and basically kick the can down the road on their replacement, by which time maybe the supply channels won't be so messed up.
A couple of weeks ago my relatively new iPhone 12 had a message about there being water in the firewire port, though it hadn't gotten wet or anything, not sure why it gave me that message.
I agree with you Mike, that hydration is the issue. I had added more flour, but I guess not enough. I ate a bagel this morning - the flavor was good, texture good, it was crisp on the outside, and very chewy. The only real problem was the looks (wrinkly and lumpy) and the "floppiness" of the whole thing. It's odd that KAF advertises using the High Gluten flour in bagels -- but doesn't seem to have a bagel recipe that says to use it, or that lists it as an option. And I cannot find anything on the website about how to substitute high gluten for bread flour or AP. I don't find much at all about the high gluten, except what's on the product page. I'll call them Monday.
On Friday, I made yogurt.
For dinner, I made a quinoa salad (recipe adapted from Bob’s Red Mill) that includes corn, baby lima beans, green onion, and feta. We will have it as a main dish tonight, but it also works as a side dish.
Mike, for the dishwasher, have you tried Abt? They're not local to you but they will ship many items. You'd have to arrange for the install.
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edit, Never mind, it looks like the Bosch's are only available for their local delivery area (150 miles from the store).
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RiversideLen.
Well, the Bosch dishwasher we're looking at is unavailable, probably until December at the earliest. (Nebraska Furniture Mart may have a more honest estimate, they say March of 2022.)
So we're reconsidering the $650 repair option, and we're re-thinking repairing the SubZeros as well.
I picked two large bowls of tomatoes today (would have been more if I had picked them a few days ago, quite a few were overripe), now I just need to find the energy to process them, I should be able to get 3 or 4 quarts of tomato juice.
Taco Bell is setting up a program to have customers send unused sauce packets back to them.
No, the timestamp on the article isn't April 1st!
Taco Bell
I haven't been to a Taco Bell since they discontinued their caramel apple empanadas, and this isn't likely to get me back. There are any number of restaurants near us that make a better taco or burrito. (A new one, Rusty Taco, makes some really interesting ones, though too many of them use garlic.)
The empanada was what kept me going to Taco Bell.
Made pizza dough (shaboom's) for pizza tomorrow night.
We had a sink overflow (operator error) and the floor of the cabinet under it has delaminated. Not sure there's an easy way to fix that other than replacing the entire cabinet.
Peter Reinhart has a baguette recipe in ABED where you refrigerate the dough, take out as much as you want to bake the next day, and keep doing that for up to 4 days. (I actually let it run for 6 or 7 days, in my opinion after 3 days it started to behave and taste a bit like a sourdough.)
But that's a lean dough, meaning no fats, oils, eggs, sugar, dairy, etc. A dough with egg in it probably shouldn't be kept for more than a day. (I forgot half of a batch of laminated dough made with egg once, by day 3 it had developed an undesirable odor.)
I baked a new (to me) KABC recipe today. The Easiest Bread You'll Ever Bake. I had planned to bake it yesterday, but didn't have the gumption. At 5 P.M., I made the dough, put it in the dough bucket and put it in the fridge for overnight. I wasn't sure that'd work, having never refrigerated bread dough, so I called KA to find out if I could do this safely. Being out of bread, I wanted to make sure I ended up with baked and functional bread. I was told to not refrigerate it more than 18 hours. So at 15-1/2 hours, I removed the bread and let it come to room temp for 2 hours before starting the bread. Really, this would have been a simple recipe if I had shaped the loaves the way I've done it all my adult life. But I decided to follow KA's directions to become more professional. Mistake! The top of the finished loaves look gnarly, instead of smooth. My shaping errors, not the recipe. Nevertheless, the tuna salad sandwiches we had on the bread were scrumptious. I wouldn't call this the easiest bread I've ever made, but I will make it again soon just to see if I can improve my shaping by KA's technique. I put one loaf in the freezer and we ate most of one.
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Italiancook.
At the end of July, Will had to replace the disposal in my “new” home. It leaked all over the cabinet and it hadn’t been very long, but the cabinet is a mess. Can’t wait to see if Cabinets To Go (landlord put them in last year) will replace it - it totally fell apart!
It's an appliance apocalypse!
We finally got our upstairs toilet issue resolved. The third time the plumber was here, he determined that the leak came from a cracked tank. (It was two years old!) Today he installed a new one, so that problem is resolved.
Now, if we can just get the contractor crew back to work on the garage apt. renovation....
