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Wednesday evening, I tried baking focaccio in a slowcooker. I placed it directly on the bottom of the slowcooker insert lined with parchment paper. I cooked at on low starting at 11:00 pm. I checked on it at 3:00 am or so and found the temperature was 140 degrees so I left it alone. I looked at it again in the morning and found the temperature was still 140 degrees but the bread was hard and crispy and dry on the bottom half! Not a success. I guess cooking a loaf in its own pan is differnt from cooking flat bread directly on the cooking surface.
If I try this again, I am definitely checking much sooner like after 3 hours and not only with a thermometer. I ate it ayway even though the texture was more like rusk toast.I got it!
I did too but that was a lucky guess.
I made a cheese pizza last night. The main difference is that I used white whole wheat flour instead of regular whole wheat flour. The dough was rougher and not as smooth or bouncy. I don't think it rose as well either. The pizza had a milder flavor than a regular whole wheat pizza and was slightly more dense. I used about 3 tablespoons of tomato sauce on it.
Today I am making pumpkin whole grain bread, mainly taken from the KAF recipe. I plan to bring it to a party where the hostess is diabetic so I left out the sugar and used all whole wheat flour. I also kneaded in a little over 1 cup of Cabot Sharp cheddar cheese cut in 1/3 inch cubes. I'm going to try baking it in a crockpot on high for 3 hours. This is the second time I've done this but last time I baked it in a crockpot on low for about 8 hours.Aaron, thanks for the information about your pizzas. How do you manage 5-6 pizzas for one meal? Its all I can do to cook one pizza. I think I could make 2 at a time if I pushed it but thats about it. Does each teenager need their own pizza?
I just did a fairly plain whole wheat quick bread, with only 1/4 cup of honey for flavor and sweetness. I made it to eat with strawberries instead of a shortcake. Its very boring but that was sort of what I was aiming for.
I did too, I saw a vanilla plant once in Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania
Mike;
Are you still doing the low-sodium diet? How is that going? I can see that knowing exact amount of sodium needed would be important for people on a restricted diet, but in the real world most people get far too much salt.I did a whole wheat cheese pizza with jarred pizza sauce. How much pizza sauce do you put on a pizza about 12 inches across. I kept an eye on it and I found that I used 2 - 3 tablespoons. Enough for a bit of flavor and salt, but not enough to be messy.
I messed this up.
The Granola looks great! I used to do granola, but I haven't for a long time. this tempts me to start again. I used to do mine in the crockpot.
I did Vietnamese Beef stew in the slow cooker on Wednesday. I got up early in the morning when it was still cool to get this prepared and in the slow cooker. I had wanted to cook it over the weekend but it was far too hot. I had to do quite a bit of substitution -- I had no fresh orange peel so I used candied orange peel and left out the sugar. I put in three small carrots and a turnip instead of two large carrots. One can of diced tomatoes instead of a fresh tomato. One small onion and some garlic instead of half a large onion. Then I cooked it on low for about 12 hours. came out very tasty. I could have put in another turnips. Stews are so wonderfully forgiving about substitutions and adding more ingredients.
I ate this with stir fried Chinese Cabbage and Rice. Its a very spicy dish but its suppose to be eaten with bland noodles and greens.On Tuesday it was very hot here, Washington DC area, I made orange-cranberry quick bread and cooked it in the slow cooker about 2 1/2 hours. It was about 195 degrees and thoroughly cooked when I took it out.
The texture and height were okay, a little moister than baking in the oven.
I also baked a cheese pizza at 10:00 at night -- it was still rather hot but I really wanted to eat the pizza. I had mozzarella and provolone on the pizza.Brownies only last for two hours at room temperature if the humans are safely locked up!
Most of my Rosemary survived the winter. I had three small plants indoors as insurance. I gave the youngest away and planted the others in the ground. They were fine living in a pot over the previous summer but weren't thriving over the winter, I think they were root bound.
The Chinese chives were doing great March-April but now many of them are dying. This looks root rot due to the rain and bad drainage. I had a similiar problem two years ago and hope that these will recover eventually. Also the chives are covered with small black insects.
The Amaryllis went outside about three weeks ago and are doing fine so far.Happy Birthday!
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