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I made snapper last night, but I may need to find a better recipe, it was kind of bland and possibly overcooked. (I normally cook salmon for me and orange roughy for my wife, because she doesn't like salmon and I think orange roughy is boring.)
I'm not sure what the Nebraska laws are, booths at the Lincoln farmers markets can apparently opt out of the commercial kitchen requirements, but does that allow a cat in the kitchen? I doubt it. (What's ironic about that is that historically bakers usually had a cat or two to control the rodent population.)
The food truck regulations here in Lincoln are basically stacked in favor of the brick-and-mortar restaurants, food trucks are not permitted to park on public streets for more than 15 minutes at a time, carts are not permitted on the sidewalks and none of the shopping centers that have restaurants in them will allow food trucks to park there except for rare special events. So they tend to use things like church parking lots. Two of the best food trucks have given up completely, and I think a third one (associated with a good Mexican restaurant) may have given up last fall.
Building and using a mother culture is much easier if you're baking nearly every day, you don't have to throw away half of the starter each time you feed it, you just use that for today's baking.
I see two challenges here.
The first is volume. A reasonably busy deli could easily go through 20 loaves of bread a day.
The second problem is meeting sanitary standards as a supplier to a restaurant, if that's your intent. Those vary so much around the country that it's hard to say much here, so you'll need to do your research.
The good news is that sourdough techniques scale up very well, in fact I think it's less work to maintain a large starter (eg, in a 4-10 gallon container) than a small one.
I always thought the secret ingredient in diner pancakes was a bit of orange juice.
Here's a link to it: Blintz Loaf
Well, substituting 50% semolina for the flour in the Austrian Malt recipe was not very successful. The bread didn't rise as much as I would have liked and it is way too sweet. It is OK as a savory sandwich bread. like with roast beef, but I won't make it again.
I have made my mother's oatmeal crisp cookies without the chocolate chips, they're still very dunkable. And you can substitute raisins for the chocolate chips.
My mother often made them with nuts, usually hickory nuts, but those are so hard to find these days. (I actually have two small bags of them, but I haven't put them in cookies yet.)
For molasses cookies, Big Lake Judy's recipe is still the best I've found, and it's available here. And if you don't like molasses, substitute Lyle's Golden Syrup, you'll get a cookie unlike any you've ever had before! Lyle's is my secret ingredient for when I want something that will have a unique taste.
My wife is allergic to saffron, so I've never made it, but most recipes seem to use chicken stock instead of water, and maybe a little onion.
I'm making a loaf of bread today, the Austrian Malt recipe but with 50% semolina flour. I haven't decided yet if I'm baking it free-form or in a loaf pan, probably the latter.
They had lovely (and BIG) red peppers at the store the other day at 3/$1.00, so I made some stuffed peppers tonight. I blanched the peppers after hollowing them out and filled them with a mixture of browned ground beef, some oatmeal and a bit of barbecue sauce and sprinkled cheese on top. 35 minutes at 350 covered, then another 15 minutes uncovered.
I moved her post to the general forum, but I don't see a recipe that looks likely to be the one she was after. Maybe Sarah will remember it, but I haven't seen her online much lately.
Some varieties of garlic are much stronger than others, and how you cook it also makes a difference. And then there's black garlic, which has been fermented.
(Just because I can't use garlic in my home cooking that doesn't mean I'm totally disinterested in it.)
I tend to agree that 1-2 days of retarded fermentation is great for pizza dough. After 3 days, it starts to taste and act more like a sourdough.
Well, I tried the snickerdoodles recipe my wife brought home, and they didn't come out anything like the sample she brought home, which was very flat and crisp.
I think I put in too much flour (it was specified by cups rather than by weight.)
A second problem was the baking temperature, 400. The sugar/cinnamon on the outside tasted and smelled burnt to me, so I lowered the temperature to 350 and increased the baking time.
I also started tinkering with the recipe, adding another egg, more oil and more sugar. At least now they're coming out crisp, but still not flattening much when they bake, but I think the extra egg was a mistake.
I stuck most of the dough in the refrigerator, I may try baking some more tomorrow, or I may write this batch off as a failure and see if my wife can get any advice from the person who gave her the recipe.
I've done this a few times, myself. What I do is to make a yeast slurry, then work it into the dough, adding a little flour if needed to get the dough to firm up again. But usually you want to avoid a lot of additional kneading.
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