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Yesterday I made a grilled smoked cheddar with fried bologna on the last of my braided bread. I used walnut oil instead of butter (I usually use walnut or olive oil). It looked pretty good but in fact it was a little bland.
For dinner I had pork loin chop and red cabbage. Tonight's dinner will be pork loin chop, pasta and carrots.
On Saturday, I made a 2 pound pork shoulder. I seasoned it with salt, celery seed and fennel seed and roasted it on a rack at 300 degrees for 4 and a half hours (internal temp was about 185f). It came out pretty good, much of the fat had melted away and it was fork tender. A little dry but nothing I can't live with.
I decided to make a loaf since I want to make some grilled cheese sandwiches. I don't make loaves often, usually make sandwich/burger buns. I made a basket weave round loaf based on my semolina/wheat/rye recipe but down sized it (made 60%) and omitted the rye (I think rye makes it hard to braid). It's hard to divide an egg to 60% so I separated an egg and used the yolk only in the bread and cooked the white with some ham for lunch. I baked it in a round Corningware dish. And since it's a smaller batch, just for giggles, I used my mini KitchenAid stand mixer to do the mixing/kneading. I think it worked out pretty good. I haven't sliced into it yet, but the finished loaf looks good to me. I was watching a youtube video recently of someone making a round challah basket weave and she lightly dusted the strands with flour before doing the weave to give the strands some separation in the baked loaf. That sounded like a good idea so I did that too.
I had ham and cheese on rye (my pizza crust is 25% rye, which might be more than commercially made rye bread).
There was also mushrooms, green peppers and onions hiding under the cheese.
