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September 15, 2017 at 8:01 pm in reply to: What are You Baking the Week of September 10, 2017? #9067
If you can find fresh (current crop) Golden Delicious, you might try those. (IMHO they don't store well, so I only use them when I'm pretty sure they're fresh.)
September 15, 2017 at 3:07 pm in reply to: What are You Baking the Week of September 10, 2017? #9064I think the usual ratio is 2 tablespoons per cup for light brown sugar, double that for dark brown.
September 15, 2017 at 2:18 pm in reply to: What are You Cooking the Week of September 10, 2017? #9062Today I'm making beef stock, starting out by roasting several pounds of shank bones that I got from a vendor at the farmer's market, plus assorted scraps and left over pieces from beef cuts that I've bought and cut up over the past several months. I buy relatively large cuts, usually in the 1.5-3 pound range, and try to get 2 or 3 meals plus scraps for stock out of them.
I roasted the meat for an hour, then threw chopped onions, celery and carrots on top for another 2 hours, I like the flavor that roasting the aromatics adds to the stock.
Either those are really big radishes or he didn't plant very many. 🙂
My mother used to plant a row of radishes that was a good 20 feet long. Since they're a fairly fast crop, we'd be eating them by the bowlful for several weeks.
September 13, 2017 at 5:17 pm in reply to: What are You Cooking the Week of September 10, 2017? #9044My wife defrosted the freezer over the weekend, so I had 10 pounds of chicken thighs and legs to use up, so I made a big pot of chicken stock, most of which I'll freeze for soup later this fall. Not sure what I'll do with the chicken meat, maybe a batch of soup and some chicken salad.
September 12, 2017 at 9:28 am in reply to: What are You Baking the Week of September 10, 2017? #9035I made Vienna bread on Monday.
September 10, 2017 at 9:59 pm in reply to: What are You Cooking the Week of September 10, 2017? #9028Even Mac and Cheese from a box is more cooking than some people do!
I've never understood what makes a pumpkin a 'pie' pumpkin, but the Cinderella pumpkin has been grown in France for centuries and is said to be quite good for eating purposes. (I don't really care for pumpkin pie, so it makes no difference to me, I've had some pumpkin soups that were OK, but I don't eat much squash of any kind, except for ratatouille.)
It's been cooling off in the evenings here, too, we've had highs in the mid 80's but it gets down to the 50's overnight, and we've had the back door open most evenings, unless someone in the neighborhood has a fireplace going, in which case the wood smoke smell is too strong for us.
My wife sent me a USDA alert earlier this week about cool weather trends that may affect harvests in the
upper midwest the next week or two. There could even be freeze warnings next week.Were you searching the recipes archive in chronological order? Searching for 'tomato relish' should have brought up maybe a dozen or so posts or recipes.
We do need a better recipe search tool, though.
Haven't made salsa, but I can tell you that the tomato relish recipe I have posted is excellent on hot dogs, burgers, sandwiches, it even went very well with some fish I made last week.
A salsa is usually just tomatoes, onion, cilantro, hot peppers, lime juice, salt and pepper, chopped up and mixed together raw, though some recipes also have minced garlic. My wife is one of those who has a genetic predisposition against cilantro (it tastes like soap to her), so I never make anything that uses it.
One of the local stores sells a pineapple salsa that is pretty good.
September 8, 2017 at 12:41 pm in reply to: What are You Cooking the Week of September 3, 2017? #8992My wife brought me 2 tubs (around 60 pounds) of tomatoes from the UNL test gardens yesterday, so I'm making more tomato relish, I've got a triple batch (30+ pounds of tomatoes, about 10 pounds of onions, 10 large peppers) cooking down now, I'll start a second triple batch later today or tomorrow.
September 8, 2017 at 11:43 am in reply to: What are You Cooking the Week of September 3, 2017? #8991I haven't made soba noodles, but I've made lots of wheat-based pasta and some GF (rice flour) pastas.
Fresh pasta cooks very quickly, 2-4 minutes, because you don't have to rehydrate the flour. You can dry fresh pasta or freeze it, but both of those increase cooking times. Be sure to salt the water adequately. (Michael Ruhleman says the water should have enough salt in it to taste like a light broth. I have increased the amount of salt I add to pasta water, it makes a difference. This is one of those times when CIA--where Ruhlman trained--isn't over-salting things.)
When I was in San Diego a couple of years ago, I gave some thoughts to driving to the NY Bakers warehouse, but it isn't clear whether they support over-the-counter sales or just mail order.
I bought 5 pounds of cake flour at a Mennonite store that had been rebagged from a larger bag. It wasn't labeled as to whose it was, it could have been Queen G, which they no longer sell in home-baker sized bags.
I also used to get a great pumpernickel flour at that Mennonite store, which I would hit whenever I was visiting my employer's national office, but since I retired I probably won't be going there (Crossville TN) again, and I think the nearest Mennonite/Amish community is likely to be in eastern Iowa.
Looking for recipes for soba noodles online made me wonder whether the soba noodles at the Mongolian grills are gluten-free.
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