[Mike Nolan]

I was also looking at Thrive Market, but I don't see many products there I'd order: No semolina, no rye flour. Their prices appear to be a few percent below some other sites (like ordering direct from Bob's Red Mill), but I don't know what their shipping costs are, and I don't think you can get to that without joining.

[Mike Nolan]

The best way to color white chocolate is with colored cocoa butter. It isn't cheap, though, about $20 per 8 ounce bottle. As far as using food coloring, our instructor at chocolate school recommended against using it, though I'm told the paste colors work a little better than the liquid ones, which are water based and can cause melted chocolate to seize. The trick is getting the paste color to blend in evenly, colored cocoa butter does a better job because its mostly cocoa butter.

[Mike Nolan]

You could probably have degassed and re-shaped it, but that adds time, as the new final proof will generally be nearly as long as the original one.

Back when I was testing recipes for Peter Reinhart, one of the things I did was to take dough that has been retarded in the fridge for several days and put it through multiple rises before shaping and baking it. Although many authors claim that the yeast eventually runs out of sugars it can digest, I did not see that occurring, even after five rises.

The more times I let it rise, or the longer I kept the dough in the refrigerator, the more it took on characteristics of a sourdough. Eventually the dough did start to go bad, but that took over a week in the fridge with daily degassings.

[Mike Nolan]

We used to make a curry dip that was very good with raw cauliflower, but then my wife decided curry was causing her problems, so we haven't made it in years.

My wife like a lot of lemon on steamed broccoli, I eat it plain, not even salted. But steamed cauliflower without cheese sauce seems pointless, and the cheese sauce probably cancels out the healthy benefits of cauliflower.

I'm not that fond of black beans by themselves, though I'll eat a little black bean soup when I make it for my wife. (Bean soups in general aren't my favorite soups, my mother made them frequently and cooked the beans until they were mush.)

But I did like the chili I made a few weeks back with black beans and I like the black bean meatloaf I make a lot.

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[Mike Nolan]

I made 2 more loaves of semolina bread. I also took 3-4 ounces of the dough to make a few breadsticks, which I rolled in sesame seeds. They've got a different taste from the bread, because they're crunchy, and they're quite tasty. They baked for about 25 minutes at 375.

[Mike Nolan]

My wife doesn't care for cauliflower, so we seldom buy it, but I do agree that a head of it is a lot to eat, especially for just one person.

[Mike Nolan]

The drop site near me is probably someone associated with the 7th Day Adventist Church, since it appears to be close to the Union College campus, if not on campus. (They show you a big blue circle on a map and give a name and a phone number, but not an address.)

The church became the host site for the Sunday's Farmer's Market two seasons ago, and it appears to be a good working relationship for them, though I liked the old site better because it was closer to us and had a lot of shade, which is really helpful in the summertime. We used to go nearly every Sunday, this year I think we went less than half the time.

I probably won't decide whether to order anything from them until after the holidays, which will probably mean a pick-up date later in January, so I may defer until spring. It sounds like depending upon the drop site coordinator, you need to show up ahead of when the truck is due, which you may not find out until the day before it gets there. I may contact the local coordinator by email and sound her out.

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[Mike Nolan]

Check out the Azure Standard information I posted in another topic, they do carry split yellow peas, dried bing cherries and long grain brown rice, too.

[Mike Nolan]

Freekeh sounds like one of those ingredients that should be in a Chopped episode (if it hasn't been already.) The biggest challenge might be getting it fully cooked in the 20-30 minutes they allow competitors, even finely cracked.

I'm not sure if I've seen it locally, Bob's Red Mill makes it, but they make a number of things that I can't find locally. (And I think they've discontinued a number of items recently.)

It is generally made from durum wheat, which may explain why it has a fairly low glycemic index, though harvesting it while it is still green might also affect the glycemic index.

[Mike Nolan]

We're just about out of the semolina bread I made last week, so I need to start another batch in the morning.

[Mike Nolan]

We had roast beef sandwiches and some steamed broccoli.

[Mike Nolan]

Dogs and cats understand a lot of words, more than most pet owners believe. We've got our security system and doors set so that they play a message that can be heard in other rooms when they're opened. We had a cat who recognized several of the messages and would head towards that door to be let out, even if he was on another floor. And all of our cats over the years recognized the messages for the garage overhead doors and would head towards the back hall to greet whoever was coming home.

[Mike Nolan]

I've been studying French on DuoLingo for around 3 years, my wife razzed me for the first year or so because they hadn't covered how to ask where the bathroom is yet. (I will note that they've redone many of the lessons since I started and 'Où est les toilettes' is covered sooner than it was when I started.)

[Mike Nolan]

We had eye of round roast, mashed potatoes and gravy. I used too much vermouth to deglaze the pan and that affected the taste of the gravy. I was also using a different brand of vermouth, I don't think I like it as much as the one I had before, it is more aromatic. I should probably have not bothered deglazing the pan, there wasn't much in it.

[Mike Nolan]

Based on my admin messages, something about your edit of the original post triggered a spam alert that caused that post to be removed from public visibility, I don't know what.

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