Tonight we had eggs Benedict. It has been a while since I made a Hollandaise (my wife doesn't like it, she had hers without the Hollandaise), and of course the sauce broke, so I had to rescue it with another egg yolk and some water.
My son and his family will be leaving tomorrow morning, so I'm planning an afternoon of baking, most of it road food: bagels, Brazilian cheese rolls and chocolate meringue cookies.
No-knead techniques were probably around long before the middle 20th century, but the NY Times article was well-written, and well-publicized. Timing and who you know is always important.
Remember, Leibniz and Newton both came up with calculus, but Newton got most of the credit.
I need to go check the east side of the house tomorrow, it is mid-June and there may be some black raspberries to pick. I don't think I've got any elderberries left, they got crowded out by bigger plants, we have several maples and at least one oak that have taken over that part of the yard. I tried planting some elderberries I ordered online last year in another part of the yard, but they didn't get delivered until mid-July when it was in the 90's every day and none of them made it to fall. I don't think I'll contact the nursery I ordered them from (direct gardening in Bloomington IL), but I'll never order from them again, the order seemed to be oddly handled right from the start.
The 11-strand braid came out fairly well, probably the best of the 4 I've done. My wife thinks I overdid the sesame seeds a bit, though. (But I love sesame seeds on bread.)
The chocolate pecan meringue cookies came out pretty good, too, I lowered the temp from 350 in the recipe to 325 and baked them for about 22 1/2 minutes, they're just a little chewy in the center and that's how we like them.
We've got a number of tiny tomatoes, mostly on the '4th of July' plants, which are a very early variety.
It has been too hot here for much fruit to set, but we're supposed to have a day or two when it doesn't get above the mid 70's, which should help. (As I recall, most tomatoes will only set fruit when the 6AM temperature is under some temperature, but I'm not sure what, somewhere in the 70's I suspect.)
We had a lavash pizza last night with the usual ingredients plus some of the pulled pork from Thursday's BBQ takeout. My son was drizzling apple-habanero sauce on it, that was quite good.
I had made bagels earlier in the day; by suppertime we hit 100 for the first time in three years, so we had sandwiches on the bagels and salad. Supposed to hit 102 on Thursday!
I'll be making bagels today.
I will definitely be making these again. It'd be great to have a package of Vienna buns to compare them against, but unless I make a trip to Chicago that isn't likely.
I made semolina bread today, let the final proof go on a little too long because I was listening to an online presentation on sourdough, but it didn't collapse in the oven.
It's so easy to do, too. It uses just a little egg wash, so unless you're doing a lot of them even one egg will give you lots of egg afterwards to use for something else. I did these and then my wife had her breakfast omelet with the rest, plus a second egg.
Happy Birthday, Cass, think cheesecake even if you can't bake one!
Here's what the poppy seed coating looks like:
