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I like that Bob's Red Mill has free shipping on $50 worth. When we move, it will be a lot further away from places where I can buy it, so I expect to do a large shipment once or twice a year.
I tried their unbleached cake flour because Aaron recommended it on this site! 🙂
While home on my lunch break, I baked a new recipe, "Mini-Fluted [Lemon] Cakes," a KAF recipe. However, I substituted lime powder for the lemon powder. (I have NO idea why I once bought that lime powder from KAF.) One of the reviewers mentioned making that substitution, so that is what I did. I used the Bob's Red Mill fine unbleached cake flour (KAF called for its own), and I used 1/2 tsp. lime oil in place of zest. I have lemon discs that I need to use up, so I topped the warm cakes with those, as the recipe specifies.
In case you are wondering, yes I had bought that special pan; in fact, I bought two when they were on sale. They are good for cute little cupcakes that need no frosting and easier to grease than a Bundtlet pan.
This recipe is a good example of how KAF pushes certain products: citrus powders, the discs, the unbleached "cake" flour, even the pan, I suppose, although it can be used for a variety of recipes. What can I say? I was once blinded by love because KAF gave me the Baking Circle. I'm still thankful to them for that, and for all of you here who I would not have known without Mike's starting this site when KAF closed its site. With KAF, however, it is now strictly business.
Hi, Aaron. It has a courser ground and a more pronounced flavor that I would even call "sweeter." I use it in some raisin buns (KAF recipe) and it is also used in their tea brack. I probably forgot that I had it, because I was startled by how much I have in the freezer. I'm not sure how it might affect texture to use it interchangeably with my regular whole wheat.
Today I baked the Easy Buckwheat Oat English Muffins (recipe on this site under "by sue/theviewfrom") that I have been craving for a couple of weeks. I always substitute in 1 1/2 cups buttermilk for that much water. This time I substituted in 2 Tbs. of honey for the 2 Tbs. of sugar. I added 2 Tbs. of flax meal. I always find this dough very sticky, so I add an additional 2 Tbs. of bread flour. I'm looking forward to breakfast for the next few mornings--and breaking out some of my homemade jam.
My family sometimes would go to Shakey's pizza--which featured someone playing the piano. Their ad had the jingle: "We serve fun at Shakey's, also pizza." I have no memory of how the pizza tasted.
My family tended not to go out for pizza (except for a couple of times at Shakey's). I come from a large family, so usually my mother either did frozen pizzas, which we usually doctored up for the toppings, or we did take-out pizza. The latter was our go-to dinner on Christmas Eve, as we were desperately trying to make it to a 7:30 church service, in which at least several family members were participating. For a time, there was a pizza place in Glendora, CA that would give a discount on election days to anyone who presented an "I voted" sticker, but at some point the election people put a stop to that. Perhaps they thought that people only voted so that they could get a pizza discount....
A memorable pizza place for me is one in San Diego at Fisherman's Village. I also remember a wonderful stuffed pizza in Chicago. Here in Lubbock, One Guy from Italy is the place to go.
I can see how a couple that gets a babysitter and goes out for a nice dinner might not be happy with rambunctious children at the next table. Parents should think about whether a specific setting is age or behavior appropriate for their children. If a child is trained with good table manners at home, it should translate to behavior in restaurants.
I hate to see a blanket age policy, as it unfairly discriminates against children who can handle the restaurant setting. There would not need to be a rule if people would use common sense, but then, common sense is not necessarily very common.
