[Mike Nolan]

I'll try to get an updated list posted soon, but I've got a major project going live early tomorrow morning so it might not happen today. We're over 1800 recipes now.

[Mike Nolan]

Leaving it out for a half hour gives the yeast a chance to get busy, since yeast activity slows down at cooler temperatures, but I don't think it'll be a critical issue.

When you read American Pie, see if you can figure out how the really long pizza (like 6 or 8 feet long) is folded into and baked in an oven that is too small for it to fit, I'm still pondering how that works. If I ever make it back to Italy, I may have to go looking for that style of pizza. (The pizza we had in Turin was the standard round variety, delicious, and obviously very popular with the locals, we must have seen 200 of them go out the door during our two hour meal there.)

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Which type of red velvet icing did you use?

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So far I'm pleased with my new Canon T6i, but I haven't bought a telephoto lens yet. (Lenses are where photography can get really expensive. The Nikkor telephoto lens Sarah mentioned is a $950 lens, which is more than what I paid for my camera body.)

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I don't drink wine much, either, but use it a fair amount in cooking. I have some Australian shriraz and cabernet/shiraz wines that are very good in dishes like coq au vin and beef bourguignon.

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I haven't tried it on the oven racks yet, but I've got a spray can of Carbon-Off that removed 18 years of built-up carbon from the stainless steel backsplash on my stove better than hours and hours of scrubbing ever did, so I think it'd do a great job on the racks. I'll have to try that the next time I clean them (and if I do I'll try to remember to take before-and-after pictures.)

Carbon-Off is what professional kitchens use.

It's available at restaurant supply stores in both a spray and brush-on liquid form. Be sure to use gloves and eye protection in a well-ventilated area.

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I may have to try this cake in a Boston Cream Pie, I think the flavors would go well. But it's pretty good plain, too, as I haven't bothered to frost it.

I made it with AP flour, I wonder if it would have a finer grain if made with cake flour?

I keep the baking soda in Tupperware containers, too. My wife was a Tupperware dealer years ago. One of her closest friends was also a Tupperware dealer before she passed away and another friend still is a Tupperware dealer, so we've kept up on the latest and greatest from Tupperware. Nearly all my flours are in Tupperware containers and we've got several cabinets in the kitchen devoted to Tupperware. I also use Tupperware and Ikea containers to freeze small portions of stock, so I've got a freezer full of Tupperware, too.

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Baked a cake (see the 'semi-flopped cake' thread for details.)

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Tried my hand at creating a tilapia recipe, since I hadn't found one I liked anywhere, came out good enough that I'm going to try it again tomorrow.

Melted some butter, added dried parsley and dill weed and some tomato sauce, then the fish, with a bit of salt and pepper. Sauce came out a bit too thick, but otherwise it was very good.

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I unintentionally duplicated your oven issue by forgetting to turn the oven on until I had the batter in the pan. 🙂

Cake is out of the oven and it is delicious! The buttermilk definitely kicks it up
a notch from a standard yellow cake.

The batter came out thicker than I was expecting, and I don't think I got it even across the top, it's got an area that isn't quite as high, but it's not so much that it collapsed as that the batter probably wasn't as deep there. It didn't seem to collapse as it cooled.

My baking soda must be a couple of years old, we bought a big bag of it at Sams Club, I haven't had any problems with it.

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I generally use 4.25 ounces per cup for AP flour and bread flour, you can always add more flour if the dough seems too moist. Cake flour is a bit lighter, whole wheat flour a bit heavier.

I've used this thin crust pizza recipe several times:
thin crust pizza dough

[Mike Nolan]

I'd suggest you try a babka recipe. It's usually filled with chocolate, but I've made it with a fruit filling and it was pretty good. It has the advantage of not being overly sweet, so it doesn't compete with a sweet filling.

[Mike Nolan]

I'm not sure what Peter Reinhart pizza dough recipe you're referring to. The only pizza dough I remember ever posting isn't one of Peter's, it's adapted from one in the Great Chicago Style Pizza Cookbook.

Peter has a number of dough recipes posted at his Pizza Quest site.

I have used Peter's 'Roman' thin crust dough from American Pie, but I don't think I've ever posted it anywhere. That recipe can be stretched so thin it is almost transparent.

I think any pizza dough recipe actually gets better if aged for a day or two.

I completely agree that we need a better way to search the recipes area, I just haven't found one I like yet.

[Mike Nolan]

I'm thinking of making a half-recipe in an 8x8 glass pan.

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We seldom see the ruby-throats until around August 15th, but we're pretty much on the western edge of their range. They don't stay long on their northward migration in the spring compared to when they're heading back south. The most we've ever seen at one time was somewhere around 15 (trying to get an exact count on hummingbirds is challenging), and that was in mid-September a few years back.

They're incredible competitive, we've seen one defend three feeders for an hour or longer against a half dozen other hummers.

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