Give us this day... Posted at 30 May 2009 11:12:26 AM

The lighting could be better, but the bread smells damn good. It's still cooling; I'm going to freeze one loaf and use the other. The recipe is from the Fannie Farmer Cookbook; no fermenting, just straight-up kneaded white bread. I used the kitchenaid for most of it and only kneaded by hand for a couple of minutes before proofing. Hopefully it was enough... I don't have a good knack for the timing yet, but it felt alright.

For now, I've got butter chicken simmering away on the stove (and somehow, I am out of brown rice. WTF is up with me?). Owing to some rather unprintable scheduling on the part of his boss Dan won't be home 'til late tonight and probably won't even be able to go to the baseball game with me tomorrow.

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	The next experiment: garlic knots Posted at 28 Jul 2008 09:23:37 AM

I think this will be my next experiment: Buttery Garlic Knots.


Photo (C) Kelly Wright @ Sass and Veracity

I can find no fault with that picture.

So.. who wants to come over for a spaghetti night sometime soon? :D

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	Baking experiments Posted at 11 Dec 2008 10:58:21 AM

So I experimented with my new bread machine's recipe for cinnamon buns this weekend. It -says- that 2lbs of dough makes 24 rolls... I beg to differ ;) If they're bitesize, maybe you'd get 24 out of it. I got about 16 with my first attempt of 1.5lbs, and overbaked them by a good 5 minutes. I blame the recipe for that one.

So I stripped out the best 8 and brought them to bbqdaffid's bbq.

This morning, I got up and made a second batch. 2 lbs of dough, didn't divide the dough into halves but just rolled it all out in one big piece, and rolled it up into one GIANT log. I got 13 buns counting the two end pieces, baked them for 20 minutes, and got some darned tasty cinnamon buns :D





Half were a housewarming present for , half are munchies for the coming days. A successful experiment, I think!

One of my tomato plants has its first blossom. With any luck (and I can't believe I'm hoping for this) some bees will wander through and do its job, and we will have tomatoes! I'm still not sure that I'm not carefully cultivating some weeds in the form of faux-pepper plants, but time will tell.

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