Mike Nolan
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Yes, the brewing process produces some CO2, but not enough for the bubbly head people expect from beer these days.
150 years ago, when people had beer buckets that they'd get filled up and drink from all day, carbonation was much lower. Home brewers talk about it a lot, I'm told.
Considering all the talk about carbon sequestration, you'd think they'd have a way to produce food quality CO2 while cleaning the air. Maybe that'll be the next technological miracle.
Yeah, the craft brewers are suffering because they generally don't have the same depth of supply channels. A gas supplier can cut them off, they won't cut off a major brewery.
I have 24 cages of tomatoes, I should be getting a lot more tomatoes than I'm getting, there have been years when I was picking 40-50 tennis ball sized tomatoes a day, but I'll take what I can get and will process tomatoes tomorrow, I should get around 3 quarts of juice.
We had pizzas on the grill tonight--eventually. I was hoping to get them on the grill around 6, but a late afternoon storm kept me from even turning the grill on until 7.
We had a savory pizza and a dessert pizza again. This time there were some leftovers for the fridge.
I picked about 10 pounds of tomatoes this morning, mostly 4th of July.
That's enough for about 3 quarts of juice, which I'll probably do tomorrow. Some of the bigger tomatoes are finally starting to ripen, if the weather holds I should be able to harvest tomatoes into October. But I'm seeing predictions of an early frost.
I have two version of the tangzhong cinnamon roll recipe that I tend to flip-flop between. The one I used today has egg in the dough, the King Arthur one does not. I think I like the one with egg better.
I wound up with 28 rolls in a 3/4 sheet pan, so they could spread out a bit, I think I like that style better than putting the same amount of dough in a half sheet pan and having them touch each other. This makes them a bit more like Chelsea buns.
We had the last of the NY strip steak, the last of the corn on the cob, some sauteed mushrooms, and cinnamon rolls for dessert.
Everybody's got advice on how to make the best pizza crust, and much of the advice is in direct conflict with advice from other sources.
My former neighbor, the Sysco executive, said high gluten flour is only good for bagels and pizza.
What flour to use probably depends on what type of pizza you like to make.
I've been moving towards lower gluten flour in my pizza dough for some time. We liked the pizza I did on the grill last weekend, which was a blend of KAF AP flour and BRM pastry flour, I'll be doing it again over the weekend.
If they're selling them as large but they're not 24 ounces to a dozen (in the shell), that could be a weights and measures violation, medium eggs are 21 ounces to a dozen. I haven't bought eggs at our Aldi in a while, I may have to buy some just to weigh them.
Revised: I picked six cantaloupe today, and the critters got to another one and have it half-eaten.
There's a big Crenshaw getting close to ripe (it has some yellow stripes indicative of ripening, and I finally spotted 3 other Crenshaws, one of which formed in the cavity in a cement block and is too big to be pushed out, so I may have to cut it out when it is ripe enough.
The cinnamon rolls are rising and will go in the oven in another hour or so.
The cheese slicer method was not very successful, the wire doesn't quite cut all the way to the mat, so I wound up using a bench scraper like I usually do.
Every day I see another article saying coffee or tea is good for you, or bad for you. Just today I saw one saying drinking hot tea increases the risk of throat cancer. (Next they're going to say that applies to drinking hot chicken soup, too!)
I need to make another batch of cinnamon rolls, if I don't get it done tomorrow it will probably wait until Sunday or Monday, because Saturday is the start of the college football season, beginning with the Nebraska - Northwestern game in Dublin. (I have degrees from both schools.)
I think we're probably having tacos tonight.
Tonight we're having the steak and corn, we put it off yesterday because my wife had a late afternoon massage appointment and we needed something quick for supper afterwards.
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