Food

[pacifico66]

Toast points with Smoked Salmon and capers quite yummy

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[geoffbot]

Growing king oysters

[Raza]

Growing king oysters

They look like mushrooms to me, but oysters do sound good.

[Henry Krinkle]

Some of the holiday eats.
Roman carbonara made with a lovely piece of guanciale. Served with sauteed broccoli raab fresh out of the hydroponic garden.




Did a Korean braised pork belly and a day long pork neck bone stock.


The pac choi is also from the hydroponic garden.


Roux and a crab and chicken stock that became a big pot of gumbo.




Risotto Milanese, herbed roast chicken and asparagus.


Miso glazed steelhead and charred scallions and pac choi, from the garden again.

[Henry Krinkle]

For part of our contribution to the Strays and Orphans Christmas dinner I had a special request to make soft dinner rolls, which is not my favourite bread to bake. So in typical fashion I took a plain simple bread and made it as difficult as possible. I changed the dough to a high hydration formula, used some 18th or 19th Century Japanese baking science coupled with French techniques to turn a 2 hour project into something closer to 6 hours. On the other hand I used 20% less flour than normal and got about 30% more lift on the finished product. Also, the leftovers tasted as good, or bad, as soft dinner rolls ever do, instead of being inedibly stale the next day.

[geoffbot]

For part of our contribution to the Strays and Orphans Christmas dinner I had a special request to make soft dinner rolls, which is not my favourite bread to bake. So in typical fashion I took a plain simple bread and made it as difficult as possible. I changed the dough to a high hydration formula, used some 18th or 19th Century Japanese baking science coupled with French techniques to turn a 2 hour project into something closer to 6 hours. On the other hand I used 20% less flour than normal and got about 30% more lift on the finished product. Also, the leftovers tasted as good, or bad, as soft dinner rolls ever do, instead of being inedibly stale the next day.

Great effort! I must bake bread more but it's never as good as my supermarket sourdough (the real stuff)

[geoffbot]

Anyone else's supermarket app track their purchases?!

[Raza]

This was NYE dinner. Got those oysters after all.

[Henry Krinkle]

Great effort! I must bake bread more but it's never as good as my supermarket sourdough (the real stuff)

It's pretty hard to beat something like that without a professional oven. It's like cheese making. I will never be good enough to beat a professional factory made gouda or cheddar. Ever. So I don't bother. I will always pay someone else to make that. I go eccentric, quirky, or simply something the big guys don't make and then work on it to make the best I possibly can. Is my parmesan as good as even middling Italian parm? Not a chance. Is it good and is it distinct and unique? Yah. Bake more and bake what you want.

[Henry Krinkle]

Anyone else's supermarket app track their purchases?!

Interesting. No. And that's a pretty good choice for a lot of purchases.