A bit more advanced than the bread rolls I made for Christmas lunch. Haven't yet gone to the extreme of trying to make artisan bread at home.
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Are your kitchen counters metric?
Peek-a-boo.
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Filled (lead-filled)
A lead-filled snowshoe (snowshoe)
He said, "Peek-a-boo" (Peek-a-boo!)
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With a lead-filled snowshoe (snowshoe)
He said, "Peek-a-boo" (Peek-a-boo!)...
I have no idea, but I still make bread rolls by the dozen.Are your kitchen counters metric?
Great googly-moogly!!...I said with a lead (lead)
Filled (lead-filled)
A lead-filled snowshoe (snowshoe)
He said, "Peek-a-boo" (Peek-a-boo!)
With a lead (lead)
Filled (lead-filled)
With a lead-filled snowshoe (snowshoe)
He said, "Peek-a-boo" (Peek-a-boo!)...
A bit more advanced than the bread rolls I made for Christmas lunch. Haven't yet gone to the extreme of trying to make artisan bread at home.
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Its all just flour, water and salt! Take your dinner roll recipe and put it in a Pullman pan and you've got sandwich bread. Eliminate the milk, add molasses and cocoa powder, use 60/40 wheat flour (or rye) to white flour and you've got a pumpernickel. Learning bakers math for recipes opens a lot of doors when it comes to breads. And also using only metric units (by weight) helps.
Run the frozen bread under the faucet first, it'll be nearly as good as fresh baked coming out of the convection cooker.I'm gonna make spaghetti and italian sausage.. with Trader Joe's marinara sauce... you know, boil this, roast that, open the jar, microwave.... such a hard job.
Lately we've been reheating french / ciabatta bread rolls in the air fryer... and croissants... from freezer to air fryer... 8 minutes, done...
I'll post pictures of the Christma's roast when my daughter gets back from work... she took pictures, forgot to send them to me...
Our New Year's was Japanese..
Sous vide used both times...
With partial Slav roots (Irish and Scots the rest) made a wonderful pork roast for the grand children and their parents this afternoon -- reverse sear method -- roasted at 300F until the desired temp (several hours), rested for an hour, then into a 475 oven for 15 minutes. Perfect
In addition, did a slab of slow roasted ribs for the kids -- with a rub mostly salt, brown sugar, paprika, thyme, chili powder, salt and pepper.
In addition, did a slab of slow roasted ribs for the kids -- with a rub mostly salt, brown sugar, paprika, thyme, chili powder, salt and pepper.
Was able to ‘peel’ the picnic quite nicely so the Lechon was a lot less fatty than using belly, and the cost difference makes it a no-brainer.Tonight is trying to make lechon by peeling a pork picnic. Wish me luck. This could be interesting.
I have no idea, but I still make bread rolls by the dozen.
Interesting.... that would lead to think that bakers have twelve fingers... but my daughter only has ten... we counted her fingers and toes when she was born and nothing has changed... I asked her.
Perhaps a dozen is OK in the USA... indeed, 13 is fine amongst US bakers.. but we're still in that inch/foot/King's Cubit system.
Do bakers in Oz have 12 fingers?
Our kitchen counters tend to be 24" deep and 34 inches high... 32" for bathrooms. Add about an inch or inch and a half for the counter top.
I don't know how you can cook and do stuff in them metric counters.... so complicated.
BTW, when I grew up, the weight scales in Spain had the "pound" marks still... ~440 gm.
@Cal Weldon I only count as 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, etc....
@Fast14riot. You are defining a two dimensional counting system. (1,1,), (1,2), (1,3), (2,1), (2,2).... (4,3) The issue with that is that you are using a single thumb as pointer, so you can not move it the way you can pre-position the counting if you use two thumbs.... (1,1,1), (2,1,1), (1,1,2), (2,1,2).... (2, 4, 3)... and you also get a 24 count.
I would prefer at 10,10 hermitian matrix myself... everything is on the diagonal, so the dimensional conversions are trivial.
@Fast14riot. You are defining a two dimensional counting system. (1,1,), (1,2), (1,3), (2,1), (2,2).... (4,3) The issue with that is that you are using a single thumb as pointer, so you can not move it the way you can pre-position the counting if you use two thumbs.... (1,1,1), (2,1,1), (1,1,2), (2,1,2).... (2, 4, 3)... and you also get a 24 count.
I would prefer at 10,10 hermitian matrix myself... everything is on the diagonal, so the dimensional conversions are trivial.
I used to work with Octal computers... remember the HP1000 series? It was a 16 bit machine. The front panel counted up to 177777 (base 8). You would load the value into the front panel and then load it into an address in the memory map... All in octal...
One of the best named items in EM is the Poynting vector
One of the best named items in EM is the Poynting vector
Christmas. Left - my plate. Right - my daughter's plate.
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Its all just flour, water and salt! Take your dinner roll recipe and put it in a Pullman pan and you've got sandwich bread. Eliminate the milk, add molasses and cocoa powder, use 60/40 wheat flour (or rye) to white flour and you've got a pumpernickel. Learning bakers math for recipes opens a lot of doors when it comes to breads. And also using only metric units (by weight) helps.
Some of us expect pumpernickel to be almost all rye flour and baked at a lower temperature for at least 12 hours to get the dark color. No cocoa, molasses or anything else is used for color.
First time I had a fake pumpernickel I was quite surprised.
Do you wish people Merry Christmas on Halloween? Because after all, Oct 31 = Dec 25.I used to work with Octal computers... remember the HP1000 series? It was a 16 bit machine. The front panel counted up to 177777 (base 8). You would load the value into the front panel and then load it into an address in the memory map... All in octal...
Well, I did not say it used pumpernickel rye flour! American or modern "brown bread" "steakhouse" "pumpernickel" is nearly all the same these days. One would be hard pressed to find a true/proper pumpernickel outside of a devout Bavarian/German/middle European American immigrant, or even from what I know, European native these days. There is a genuine basque/German restaurant locally and even they serve sweet brown bread similar to Outback Steakhouse, though much better. Kinda like Squaw bread here in the US. No one really calls it that, but may make it the same way. Is it Pumpernickel? Some say yes, some no. Recipes change, names change. In the end we all enjoy the same thing.
The bakery I use makes pumpernickel without those funny bits. Although to be fair my idea of the best bread is light rye toasted with real butter.
If that doesn’t make you hungry then the only explanation I can think of is that you have never tasted it.
If that doesn’t make you hungry then the only explanation I can think of is that you have never tasted it.
Do you wish people Merry Christmas on Halloween? Because after all, Oct 31 = Dec 25.
Let's just say I'm very happy my birthday is the 6th so I can easily count to it.
And, I got two spare digits.... you just never know...
no just processed to take all the good stuff off. Thanks to instant pot brown rice is easy to do.The rice I ate in Osaka and Seoul and Taipei was white rather than beige, every time; do those folks get foisted with added stuff to change the colour of their food too?
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