Mike Nolan
Mon. Feb 23rd, 2026
I bought some Genoa salami and a cantaloupe, so that's supper, along with some sweet corn and the peach tart that I posted in the baking thread.
I had peaches that needed to get used up, so I made a peach tart in the style of an Irish Apple Cake.
Here are some numbers for Aaron on weight loss during baking and cooling for yesterday's semolina/malt bread, baked in a loaf pan:
Pre-bake weight: 982 grams
Post-bake weight (still hot): 942 grams
Post bake weight (1/2 hour of cooling): 922 grams
Post bake weight (next morning): 904 grams
So it lost just under 8% of the pre-bake weight by the time it had fully cooled.
I'm baking another semolina/malt bread loaf.
Not sure this answers all your questions, but it does say when and how to pick and store it:
Table Queen Acorn Squash
I made a stir fry tonight.
I'd like to see it too, it sounds similar to a clafoutis recipe.
We had steak with young and tender sweet corn.
we had tacos
I have quite a few different vinegars on hand these days, including several different wine vinegars that my wife got from the wine professor at UNL. We like a red wine tarragon vinegar in devilled eggs, I've used Champagne vinegar when making mayonnaise.
Rice wine vinegar has a unique flavor profile, I think it is the missing link in sushi rice, just like parsnips are the missing link in chicken broth/soup.
I'm still figuring out what all I can do with the celery and carrot vinegars I made this spring. I gave up on the onion vinegar batch, though, after some discussion with Chef David Zilber I think the sulfur in onion juice interferes with the vinegaring process.
When the fall squashes start showing up, I'm going to try making some squash vinegar, the Noma book says it is very versatile.
Sorry for your loss, I hope your measures were sufficient.
Substituting butter for shortening get tricky, because shortening is all fat and butter is 20% water, and butter is a fat that melts at a lower temperature, too.
Raw red onions are used more for their color than flavor, when you cook them the color pretty much goes away.
I used to make onion soup using half red and half yellow onions, just because the recipe I was using called for that.
White onions are stronger than either red or yellow onions.
Sweet onions are entirely different, ordinary yellow onions get pretty sweet if you caramelize them. I made a batch of French onion soup with Vidalia onions once, it was almost too sweet to eat.
We've cut back on the amount of sweet corn we eat, it's really high in carbs. Plus, with just 2 of us, even a half dozen ears will last a while.
We made the rest of the tortellini tonight, it was from Costco, I plan to buy more.
The semolina/malt bread came out really dense, it almost looks like it had been baked in a pullman pan. Slices really thin as a result, very good with Cardinal Preserves.
