Mike Nolan
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I'm going to try a variant on the no-knead recipe from the slashing class, 40% semolina, 60% bread flour, using 20 grams of inoculant from my new rye starter to 100 grams of flour and 75 grams of water for the pre-ferment this morning, then another 300 grams of flour (same ratio), again at 75% hydration, plus 6 grams of salt tomorrow to build the final dough, I'll do the slashing and bake it in a Dutch oven on Wednesday.
I've actually managed to keep my weight about the same in the past year, though I really should lose quite a bit of weight.
Almond extract is one those ingredients that is far too easy to use too much of, and it can overwhelm other flavors.
This year, King Arthur didn't do their 'pi day' sale. Anyway, I found a local source for Bob's Red Mill white pastry flour, which appears to be very similar to the King Arthur pastry flour for performance, and King Arthur doesn't seem to be carrying the powdered caramel coloring any more, so that's two less reasons to order anything from them.
We're not fond of kale, and there isn't any spinach in Aerogarden yet, when we replant it, we'll probably do some spinach along with various lettuces.
But a salad with the chicken and rice sounds good to me. And there's apple pie.
I made our pie yesterday, so we can eat it today!
We had artichokes and apple pie.
We had a lavash pizza last night, with tomato chunks (instead of sauce), mushrooms, artichoke hearts, havarti, mozzarella and a sprinkling of 4 cheese blend.
We ate the whole thing, usually there's a piece or two left, but this one was REALLY good.
I am making an apple pie today, using more of the Cosmic Crisp apples I bought a few weeks ago that I've kept in the fridge. One of them developed a bad spot, the others appear just fine. The apple pie filling recipe I used (from SFBI) uses about 1125 grams of sliced apples, which is about 5 Cosmic Crisp apples.
I bought a bag of Bob's Red Mill white pastry flour and I'm seeing how that compares to the King Arthur pastry flour for pie crusts.
Cabbage is on sale this week, so I bought 3 heads of it and I'll make a batch of sauerkraut from them.
I bought a couple of artichokes the other day, too, but we haven't made them yet.
Semolina breads can range from really soft to very firm, its largely in the shaping and baking.
I'm not sure what he did to get aphids, his Aerogarden is in his basement laundry room which does have an exterior door, maybe they came in that way?
Our house plants get a variety of bugs from time to time, too. We're going to have to be more careful watching them ourselves now because the guy who's been tending to our plants for the last 8 years or so passed away last month.
I'm not sure how much longer we'll be getting lettuce from our Aerogarden, but I'm leaning towards starting more lettuce plants once the current plants stop producing. Even with the Aerogarden in a south-facing window, it is still more temperate inside in summer than in the yard.
I've got some cherry tomato pods that came with it, but we don't eat a lot of cherry tomatoes, and I think I'd rather grow lettuce and maybe some spinach. Besides, if the current lettuce plants keep producing for another month or two (the Aerogarden FAQ files suggest you can get up to about 5 months from lettuce and herbs), by the time we start getting cherry tomatoes it'll be close to the point where we get real tomatoes from our garden. The dill has grown well above the lights and bloomed, I'm curious to see if it sets seed.
I've grown cherry tomatoes in the garden a few times, we usually get overwhelmed with them, because it is hard to eat more than a handful a day. I have discovered that if you blanch them and freeze them, they work well in batches of stock.
I'm still deciding about tomato plants, but need to get them started some time this month.
The temperature dropped about 20 degrees here between 3PM and 5PM, and it is expected to be in the low 30's tonight and then highs in the 40's or 50's for another week. Typical spring weather.
But the person who helps with our gardening did get the garden beds cleaned out.
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