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When Cass calls, ask him if you can post his recipe here.
I prefer a separate kitchen, which is what we have. My son's house has an open kitchen, the first floor is essentially one big room.
I also don't like eat-in counters in the kitchen. We have an informal dining area just off the kitchen that is part of the family room on first floor. We also have a formal dining room that is used mainly when there are more than 5 people eating. Currently my wife is using the dining table for a sewing project, her sewing room is off the formal dining room, and she also has a big jigsaw puzzle on the table, one that is too big for the table she usually uses for puzzles.
Apparently what they did was harvest yeast spores from the pottery, then used that to grow enough yeast to make bread, using ancient grains. They're also analyzing the yeast's DNA.
I have a number of small dishes that I bought to fit our small oven (they have to be no more than about 8 1/2 inches wide to fit on the lower or middle rack), some glass and some metal. I find them handy when making multiple dishes in the big oven that I either want to keep separate or that have different cooking times.
Do you have the KAF whole grains cookbook? It's got an excellent Hot Cross Buns recipe in it. It's a 50-50 whole wheat/AP flour recipe, though I've made it using 2/3 whole wheat and 1/3 AP. I find it gets a bit chewy that way, though. I divide the dough into 32 parts rather than 24 and bake them in 6" pans, 8 per pan, so they're more of a snack. According to MyFitnessPal, they're 20.7 carbs and 128 calories each, not counting frosting.
We had tuna melts made with marbled rye bread and tomatoes from the garden tonight.
We're starting to get a trickle of tomatoes, I picked about 8 small ones again today, nearly all about the size of a ping pong ball, mostly 4th of July but a few Romas and one Better Girl. The plants aren't producing big fruit yet. I'm hoping the cooler weather we had last week triggered another round of blooms setting fruit, which will mean a good crop of tomatoes in late August or early September.
I saw an article online today stating that Minnesota corn farmers, who got their crops in late, like nearly everyone else, are now worried about an early frost further cutting yield. There are signs of an early onset of cooler weather here too, and I'm told the ruby-throated hummingbirds are starting to show up, maybe a week or so earlier than normal, so I started to get the feeders ready today.
I can think of several chemical reactions that might occur with mayonnaise, mainly with the eggs. Do you remember what color?
Cabbage will weep after it is cut, so go sparingly on the liquids, including the salad dressing, because otherwise you'll wind up with soupy cole slaw a day later.
The only cole slaw recipe I can find is a vinegar-and-oil one from my wife's aunt, where you heat the vinegar and oil, pour it over the cabbage, and let it mellow for 24 hours. It looks similar to the '24 hour cole slaw' recipe in the Nebraska Centennial Cookbook that my mother-in-law edited, published in 1967.
We were out of town during black raspberry season this year, so I don't know how many there were, but I'm sure the birds enjoyed them all. But I was able to buy a jar of seedless black raspberry jelly at a small farmer's market on Saturday, so I'm happy. We've got some volunteer maple trees that seem to be crowding out the elderberries, I may have to get some more elderberry plants and put them along the east side of the house where the dogwoods are. Most of the dogwoods died off a few years ago when our gardeners cut them back, but they're trying to make a comeback this year.
I always thought Romertopf dishes were covered and this site seems to confirm that:
Breadtopia on Romertopf. BTW, it says that the bottom is glazed but the lid is not. The point, I assume, is that as moisture evaporates from the dough it is trapped as steam.Have you tried contacting King Arthur to see if they have any recipes they'd suggest?
What kind of cole slaw recipe are you looking for? There are two types, those made with mayonnaise and Carolina-style cole slaw, which uses vinegar. I think I've got my mother-in-law's mayonnaise-based recipe, but I haven't made it in a long time, as my wife doesn't like cole slaw. I'm more likely to use cabbage to make sauerkraut, and I haven't done that for a while, either.
It appears the opposite is true, adding salt to water makes it boil faster, but not enough so to make much difference.
I remember my college chemistry professor, L Carroll King, spending most of a lecture on what happens when you boil something. He was legendary at Northwestern for his intro to chemistry lectures. For one lecture, there were two large balloons floating in the room. He told us one contained hydrogen and the other helium and challenged us to suggest ways to tell which was which. After going through a variety of methods, like releasing them to see which went to the ceiling of the large lecture hall faster (hard to tell), he said there was another easier way. He then took a long metal tube, attached it to the gas with a piece of rubber tubing, lit the gas, and touched the flame to the two balloons. One of them went BOOM!, of course. Class dismissed with a bang!
Boiling water is more complicated than it seems, the amount of dissolved minerals impacts the rate at which the water absorbs heat and the boiling point, and the the pressure at the bottom of the pot, which is a combination of the atmospheric pressure and the depth of the water is also a factor. A wide pot will boil faster than a narrower pot with the same amount of water in it, though the size of the pot also affects how much heat is transferred to it from the stove.
This article does a good job of explaining things, though it doesn't really go into why adding salt makes the water seem to boil harder. As I recall, it isn't that it's boiling harder, it's that it has smaller air bubbles due to the presence of the additional minerals, which make it seem more active. (The same thing happens if you add baking soda to a pot of boiling water.)
I'm not sure there's a bad way to make eggs. 🙂
We're having tomato and salami sandwiches.
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