Food

[ljb187]

One package crab claw meat, four scrambled eggs and two mugs of chai tea...that's about it. The prior two days were nothing but peanut butter sandwiches (with either raspberry preserves, tart cherry preserves or honey).

[bu11itt]

I'll post the pizza crust recipe tomorrow,as for the bread I don't really have a recipe. I have been baking bread for decades it changes all the time. Right now skin on potatoes feature largely in my bread. I have a set of weights and measures that I prefer to stay within and judge each loaf by feel.

I haven't done much, ok any, baking. I always understood (correctly or not) baking to be very scientific and dependant on pretty exact measurements and ratios and I can't follow a recipe to save my life. Not that I lack the skill mind you, I've done my fair share of lab work so I can be precise if need be; when cooking I always feel the need to fiddle and try to put my spin on the recipe. It annoys my wife because I'm always trying to tweak a recipe. She says, "It tastes good now, why are you still messing with it!"

[bu11itt]

One package crab claw meat, four scrambled eggs and two mugs of chai tea...

I like all of those things, separately...

Unless it's imitation crab meat, I hate that.

[CanadianStraps]

I like all of those things, separately...

Unless it's imitation crab meat, I hate that.

Couldn't agree more. That stuff is vile. Tastes nothing like crab: it's like saying a hard turd is an imitation snickers bar.

[bu11itt]

Couldn't agree more. That stuff is vile. Tastes nothing like crab: it's like saying a hard turd is an imitation snickers bar.

I actually laughed out loud when I read that.

[Nokie]

Me too. Great comment!

[Bidle]

Sjeez,... missed some great photo's of food lately!! One even more tasteful as the other.

Last weekend I made Pasta,... really my favorite home made nothing like it. Okay,.. it's a matter of taste.

2015-04-04 fettuccine al ragu bolognese 01 by Bidle, on Flickr



And with Easter I made a few Baby Backs Asian Style:


2015-04-05 Spare ribs baby back Asian style 05 by Bidle, on Flickr


Tomorrow I'm making another nice BBQ dish,.. will try to make some photo's.

[Henry Krinkle]

Mmmmm. Bread sounds great. Got a good recipe? Pizza crust?

I'll take some pics of the steaks and post 'em here if I get the time.

Jim Lahey's pizza recipe. This makes a thin very crisp crust.
Bread flour; 500 grams
Instant or active dry yeast; 10 grams (2 1/2 tsp)
Table salt ; 5 grams (3/4 tsp)
Sugar; 3 grams (3/4 tsp)
Room temperature water; 300 grams (1 1/3 cups)

MIx dry ingredients. Add water. Cover, let rise until doubled, about two hours.

This will make two cookie sheet pizzas or three twelve inch rounds.

With the Traegers I am looking for a temperature of 450 F or better. Baking generally takes 16-20 minutes. Ambient temperatures or wind can cause hotspots, so check your pizza and turn if necessary. Generally speaking when the highest points on the veg just begin to char the pizza is done.

[Henry Krinkle]

With baking that everything must be precisely mixed is more or less true but unless you are correcting for altitude and humidity results are not guaranteed. If one is making pastry precision is required but bread is very forgiving if you bake enough to know the feel.

[bu11itt]

Jim Lahey's pizza recipe. This makes a thin very crisp crust.... (snipped)

Thanks. I'll have to try that out this week coming up. How long can you keep the dough before you need to cook it?