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Tonight I cooked the last major item that was in the bottom of my freezer, a top round roast. I salted and peppered it yesterday. Roasted it on convection mode at 225 degrees until it reached an internal temp of 135. It rose to 142 while resting. It came out perfect. Had it with noodles and asparagus.
I've had my eye on the Maple Cookies that Chocomouse made last week (thank you Chocomouse) so I made them today. I cut the brown sugar in half and added a half cup of white chocolate chips. When the dough was mixed I thought it was a little too thin so I added a quarter cup of hazelnut flour (from KAF) (and thank you BakerAunt for the link). I used a number 40 disher to portion them and got 25 cookies. I only baked 6 tonight with the rest residing in the freezer for later. Even after reducing the brown sugar in half I find they are plenty sweet for my taste. Overall, the cookie is pretty good, will make them again.
The recipe I use calls for 14 ounces of flour. I usually divide it half and half bread and white whole wheat. Yesterday I used 2 ounces each or rye and semolina (about 14% each) and 5 ounces each of bread and WWW (about 36% each). I usually use a little semolina in pizza dough, maybe 20% or so, and that makes the dough easier to handle plus it gives it a little color. So I thought I'd try adding some semolina. This bread dough was easy to handle but this dough is easy to handle regardless. As far as I can tell, the semolina didn't have a significant effect on the texture. I'll probably omit the semolina nest time and replace it with bread flour just because I didn't see any benefit to it.
