Mike Nolan
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I made banana nut mini-muffins from my banana bread recipe, baking them a little longer so that the outside edges are a bit crisp.
My son liked them baked to the point where there was a lot of caramelization on the outside, but that's tricky because it's thisclose to being burnt. I did something with the first two batches this time that seemed to help. I baked them about 18 minutes, let them cool, popped them out of the pan and put them on a cookie sheet. After they had cooled a bit further, I put them back in the oven for about another 6 minutes. That made the outside edges a bit crunchy, the way my wife wanted them, but seemed to lower the risk of burning them. I think I will try that again.
She freezes them and takes them to the office, eating them during the day when they're still cold if not a little frozen in the middle.
Today was simple, steak, sauteed mushrooms and a baked potato.
Thanks for the update, I had wondered why we hadn't heard from him for quite a while.
My wife brought home some vine-ripened tomatoes from the UNL experimental greenhouses, so we had a nice mid-winter treat, BLTs.
I don't brine foods, so it hasn't been an issue for me. Many marinades are also a bit on the salty side, but I haven't done much of that lately, either.
Alton was big on brining, too, I wonder if he's changed his mind on that? Graham Kerr wrote a few books after his wife's stroke and heart attack on his 'minimax' approach to cooking, but I don't think they were big sellers, the one I looked at was a bit preachy. (One thing I've found in my own cooking is that my wife doesn't like it if I talk about how I'm not using salt, so instead I've been just talking about the spices and techniques I'm using to add flavor. She hasn't noticed that I cut the salt in my honey wheat bread in half.)
I suspect brining doesn't really add that much salt, because it only penetrates the surface a bit. Injection of salty broths could be a bigger problem with things like turkeys.
The Washington Post has an interesting article by one of their food writers comparing the Instant Pot to a cast iron Dutch oven on several recipes: coq au vin, pernil asado and black bean soup. The writer made versions of each recipe in both devices and had a chef blind taste them. The chef thought the Dutch oven ones were better for all 3 recipes and correctly identified 2 out of 3 of them as to which was made in which.
Not sure if this link will work for everyone, but here it is: instant pot vs Dutch oven
I may try the black bean soup recipe (without garlic, though.)
I don't see anything on wiki about key limes having been wiped out.
Tonight was pot roast night. Yum.
Yes, happy birthday!
I was looking at a KAF recipe for Westphalian rye bread yesterday, it's a 2-3 day recipe, with several very long rise periods (like 24 hours) and it bakes for 5 hours at 225 degrees.
I made honey wheat bread today.
I wonder if the taste difference was due to the variety of chicken or the fact that the eggs were really fresh? We had a few chickens when I was growing up, I got to crawl into the chicken pen to fetch eggs every day or two.
I didn't get the veal ragout made until tonight, but it was delicious, took about 90 minutes for the veal to get tender on the stovetop. Had it with a salad and a little cheese toast.
Last night I also made a ground beef Stroganoff, served on toast. Tonight I'm going to be experimenting with some veal stew meat, tomatoes, peppers, onions and mushrooms. I bought a 7 bone chuck roast to make over the weekend.
That's because your chocolate was not tempered. Heating chocolate higher than about 105 degrees causes the cocoa butter to lose all crystal structure, and when it cools a random mixture of various crystal states (alpha-1 through alpha-5) will form. Only alpha-5 is solid at room temperature. It might harden up some over time (a few weeks) because there's a sixth crystal state (alpha-6) that is also solid at room temperature but doesn't appear until chocolate sits for several weeks.
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