Forum Replies Created
-
I had a bit of leftover ground turkey from last night's pizza, and I had the drippings from last week's roasted chicken legs with sweet potatoes, maple, and rosemary. I sautéed onion, celery, sliced carrots, and mushrooms in the drippings, then added the cooked ground turkey. I added 4 cups of turkey broth from the freezer, 3/4 cup mixed dried lentils, and 1/2 cup pearl barley. I seasoned with 1/2 tsp. dried sage. After bringing it to a boil on the regular stove, I let it simmer for an hour on the wood stove for a late lunch.
Addendum: The flavor was delightfully tinged with the sweet potato and maple syrup from the drippings.
For Valentine's Dinner, I made the KAF Ultra-Thin Crust Pizza, and we each topped it according to taste.
I also baked the Vanilla Pound Cake from KAF's Whole Grain Baking (pp. 384-385). (I reduced the salt to 3/4 tsp.) As I do not have access to my 12-cup Bundt Pan, I tried baking it in one of the Quartet pans and a 3 cup Kaiser Pan. I may have overbaked it a bit. (I've had this recipe test done before and not be done.) We cut up one of the little cakes into small slices, then had sugared strawberries over it and vanilla ice cream. I had planned to bake Valentine's Sugar Cookies, but we did our shopping run to the larger town north today, and Aldi's had lovely strawberries at a great price.
For tonight's dessert, I used the KAF recipe for Cider Doughnuts as a base, but I used 3/4 cups whole wheat pastry flour and 1/2 cup KAF AP (and no Hi-maize fiber). I added 2 tsp. ground flax meal. I deleted the cinnamon. I used buttermilk instead of regular milk. I probably should have adjusted the baking soda and baking powder (and followed my own advice above!). The doughnuts came out ok, but the Cider flavor really does not come through, as some reviewers of the recipe noted. I thought that leaving out the cinnamon might let the apple flavor come through, but it made no difference. They are somewhat blah.
I used the maple glaze recipe from another KAF recipe--100% Whole Wheat Apple Cider Baked Doughnuts with Maple Glaze. I would have made that recipe instead, except that I do not have any applesauce.
I also baked my version of a whole grain bread that uses the KAF Mixed Grains. I used the Emile Henry long baker.
Bob's Red Mill carries Organic Pumpernickel Dark Rye Meal--except that they are currently out of stock.
https://www.bobsredmill.com/shop/flours-and-meals/organic-pumpernickel-dark-rye-meal.html
I think that is what I want for coarse rye meal, so Mike's suggestion is a good one. Now I need to find a supply.
Today I baked Christmas Crispbread (Julknackebrod) from the recipe in Beatrice Ojakangas' The Great Scandinavian Baking Book (pp. 59-60). I substitute in buttermilk (the first jar of my newly cultured batch) for the regular milk, It's the third time I have baked this recipe (first time was last Christmas Eve), which has become my husband's favorite cracker. As an experiment, I reduced the yeast by 1/4 tsp.. The recipe calls for two packets, so I used 4 1/4 tsp.; it may be that 4 tsp. would be sufficient. It was a good project for a cold afternoon with plenty of snow on the ground outside and a frozen lake.
I used some of my first jar of buttermilk today--about half the jar. I added milk to replace what I took out, and I'm now letting it warm for a couple of hours next to the wood stove. I shook the buttermilk before I used it, and it was nice and thick. I'm using it to bake another batch of Juhlknackebrod, which has become my husband's favorite, instead of crackers.
