I just got an email - it’s Cost Plus World Market 🙄
It does use maple syrup - it’s the maple walnut biscotti recipe from KABC. I just prefer pecans to walnuts and we usually have them on hand. I sprinkled KABC sparkling sugar on top since I didn’t have maple sugar and I used vanilla extract instead of maple - same reason
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Leftover pizza with sweet potatoes two ways cooked by Will
No baking today. But tomorrow I’ll make English muffin dough to bake on Tuesday
I went to the bookstore today to pick up a bar book for Nathaniel. I also got a Coastal Georgia bird book for Will. There was no one in the store when I got there and the employee masked when I came in (I’d already talked to her on the phone). Two other people arrived but we were distanced - it was a treat. If I wanted she would have brought it out to the car - another time. Anyway, I went to look at the baking books. Anyone ever heard of Robert Bertinet? He has a beautiful book called Crumb: Bake Brilliant Bread - it’s a pretty book, but I don’t know. Mark Bittman has How to Bake Everything - nice drawings for techniques but a fat book. I’ll probably wait til Will settles somewhere - he says he doesn’t want a lot of stuff he has to schlep.
On Friday I made maple pecan biscotti which came out great and the dough for today’s pizza.
This morning I made a loaf of the KABC Savory Cheese Bread which is meant to be baked in the Zo. I ran the dough cycle and baked it in the oven, much better that way
Cost Plus is World Market or it was bought out or merged or whatever quite a few years ago. For a while they advertised World Market/Cost Plus.
We had homemade pizza tonight for the first time in months. I tried Baking Steel’s 24 hour dough and it’s probably the best one I’ve made yet. A lot due to the fact that I’m getting better at my technique. Will made the sauce and we made 3 - one with cheese and fresh tomatoes, one with cheese, kalamata olives and sundries tomatoes and the third with cheese, roasted peppers and sautéed onions & mushrooms. The crust was crisp and chewy
I’m learning so much about baking books from this discussion. When we sold our house and downsized, I gave away many of my books. I always thought I could replace then but then I realized I had the recipes out of those books that I wanted.
Joan, Fortunately p, Will’s friend told him that KABC was a good resource. He already knew that I’m a big fan, but you know kids, they’re more likely to take advice from there friends. Today he made a sourdough chocolate cake from there to use up some frosting leftover from some cookies he made - it has a nice flavor
I’m not actually looking for a book just on sourdough - more informational than just recipes. A baking bible type of book. I appreciate the advice. My first thought was to just get Hamelman’s book so I’m really glad I asked. I had a copy of Beard on Bread ages ago before I really started baking bread - I was too intimidated. BA, I’ll take a look at Bernard Clayton’s book.
I’m still crashing and burning with sourdough 🙄 I had my KAF starter that I took to Maryland, Ireland, South Carolina and then here where I managed to kill it. I tended to use more of the discard than for bread. Of course as soon as I started this new starter, they called us back from furlough. Will is more patient than I, so he will probably have more success.
We haven’t started Christmas baking either, but we’ve started talking about what we want to make.
This weekend I’m going to make some maple pecan (instead of walnut) biscotti to take to some friend who lent me a book several years ago and I just finished it Sunday.
On Thursday, I made Ina's tomato soup from Foolproof. Only changes were Italian Herbs instead of saffron and I could not see adding orzo to tomato soup. I also added a pinch of sugar to cut the acidity of the canned tomatoes. It's really good and fast. We had it for two nights with the Maple Oat Soda Bread and have a pint in the freezer.
Last night I made a hamburger noodle bake from Southern Living. It was good, but a little bland - there was not enough of the cheese mixture to toss with the noodles (it called for sour cream and I used whole milk yogurt). We'll have that for leftovers tonight.
On Thursday, I made a loaf of Maple Oat Soda Bread from KABC. I'm glad I read all the comments. I only had old-fashioned oats which I soaked in mostly buttermilk and a little water. The recipe called for buttermilk powder which I don't have. A note was that if you only had old-fashioned and not the thick oats to add another ¼ cup water to the oats before mixing into the dry ingredients.
Then a maple butter glaze on top after it came out of the oven.
It was delicious - we polished it off in two days!
Will made a pie crust out of the other half of his dough. I made a molten chocolate crackle filling I’ve been dying to try. From the looks of it I think I overbaked by about 5 minutes - it didn’t fall in and crack - it will still be delicious
BA, Will is actually teaching himself since we communicate and learn so differently from each other - he watches a lot of videos (he's dyslexic), I read a lot of recipes and watch some videos.
He does ask questions and I'm learning how to answer to be helpful, sometimes I'll just remind him to research it if he doesn't like my answer 😁 But, at least he's learning because he wants to. I'm sure he'll become better than me at some point.
I'm so sorry navlys! We all have stories like that. I try to suppress the memory and then it will happen again - I'm much better if I actually remember to write the notes I think to myself
