Right now smoking a whole picnic ham, bone-in. When it gets out, it gets to rest up, then I trim the bone out, which, with the smoked hocks, goes into the pot to make split pea soup. Some of the rest...
I love cooking egg dishes. I started cooking eggs when I was 11, so I've had a lot of practice and I know tons of them. I love the finickiness of eggs - egg yolk, protein-based egg white and egg...
A favorite breakfast of mine: Dutch ryebread crumbled into buttermilk. It's a very old school farmers' breakfast from Twenthe, the tiny piece of the Netherlands I'm from.
French scrambled eggs and homemade bread for brunch this Sunday. Scrambling eggs this way, for 15 eggs, takes 20 minutes of heat control but I think it is worth it.
Picnic ham, bone-in. Two weeks wet brined, soaked in water to get salt off of it (I love salt but as I'll be cooking with this I want finer control over the saltiness). Then dried to get a pellicle....
So far, so good on the learning new things during this time of enforced home isolation. First passes of no-knead sourdough and Dutch ryebread came out good enough. I claim I can figure out how to...
Dutch Ryebread take one. The taste is phenomenal, the texture is right, though I think crushed rather than steel cut cracked rye would be even better. It is drier than I like so I'm going to hydrate...
Dutch rye bread - cracked rye in boiling water for two hours, dark rye flour, medium rye flour, whole wheat flour - now into the oven for a 225F ten hour (!) bake.
