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I generally use whole-milk mozzarella on pizza and lasagna, but I do like to add a sprinkle of a four-cheese blend I get at Sams Club that has Romano, Parmesan, Asiago and Provolone. My mother used to say that a pizza without some Romano cheese on it is boring.
If I include non-wheat flours, I'm probably at 20 or more.
A cupcake-sized pot pie is small enough that I don't bother to cut vents in it.
There are enzymes present that might improve flavor by aging even in an unyeasted pizza dough.
If you didn't age the dough a long time, the baking soda might provide some rise.
Has anyone seen a pizza crust recipe with double acting baking powder in it?
I make individual sized chicken pot pies in a cupcake pan, topped with a little puff pastry, then I freeze them, take them out of the pans and put them in plastic bags. Pop one in the microwave for a few minutes and it's nice and warm.
Before my wife's mother died, we'd package up chili in individual servings for her. She always called it 'tomato soup' because it was heavy on tomatoes.
KP posted his thoughts on bleached flour and cookies more than once on the old BC, I think/hope one of them got archived and posted here.
Short form: Bleaching flour weakens the gluten bonds, so you wind up with less chewy cookies.
Alton Brown's episode on cookie-making did an excellent job of talking about how to get soft, crisp or chewy cookies by manipulating the amount of sugar and fat.
A few years ago I made a large batch of eclairs (like 8 dozen) and wound up making about 6 batches of pastry cream (several of them gluten-free, to go in gluten-free eclairs). With practice, the prepping/cooking part is not where you spend the most time.
The most time-consuming part of making pastry cream is chilling it, and spreading it fairly thin on a sheet pan then putting it in a blast chiller is one way cooking competitors have to speed that up. Using a drum sieve to strain it saves time, too.
And they don't usually wait for it to get fully chilled and set, they just get it down to about 80. An extra egg yolk or two will produce a fairly firm pastry cream even when it's tepid. I have discovered, though, that it is possible to have a pastry cream get too eggy, it tastes more like scrambled eggs than pastry cream.
Today I'm making bottom round with onion gravy. I started the onions an hour before adding the meat, so they should get nicely caramelized.
If it was me, I'd start by checking both the mixer and the beater to make sure nothing's clogged up or bent. I clean mine with a toothbrush every now and then, because stuff gets flung up into all sorts of nooks and crannies.
I'm skeptical of any recipe that calls for yeast but doesn't include significant rising time.
Today I am making Vienna bread from the Clonmel Kitchens Double Crusty recipe. (Making this recipe reminds me that we haven't heard from Paddy L in a long time, I hope she's doing OK.)
With our lowered bread consumption, I am baking 3 loaves (about 17.5 ounces of dough each) and will slice them in half, freezing 2 1/2 loaves for future use. This'll probably last me 3-4 weeks.
I haven't made pizza in a while, with just the two of us cranking the oven up for 1 or 2 pizzas seems like a waste of energy, and now that my wife's on a low-carb diet she isn't eating pizza or pasta much.
Back in the day, We preferred whole milk mozzarella, which can be difficult to find in grocery stores, though we have been able to buy it in 5 pound bags at Sams Club. I like to top it with a 4-cheese blend: Parmesan, Romano, Asiago and Provolone.
I think several of the 'Chicago-style' pizza places ship frozen pizzas. I'd avoid Uno's, they went 'commercial' some years ago (and even sell them in airports) and they're a mere shadow of what
they were in the 70's.But one of the biggest challenges with buying frozen unbaked pizzas is you'll never be able to bake them in an oven that's as hot as the one in the pizzeria, their ovens will generally be set for 650 to 750, and some gas ovens can go as hot as 1000. Coal fired pizza ovens are the hottest, but I think there are only a half dozen or so of them left in the USA, most of those in NYC. Wood fired pizza ovens can get pretty hot, too.
I made about 11 quarts of vegetable beef soup yesterday. I added lots of red, orange and yellow peppers but forgot the carrots and celery, but it's still pretty good.
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