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.
No-knead sourdough. Great taste, great crust, nice enough crumb, but bit denser and flatter than I'd like. The sourdough caused more hydration than the 50% of water it's made out of, causing the...
ACUS2020 Slot 1 - ShadowWorld Mainline (Thursday Night) ShadowWorld is a diceless roleplaying game based in our world, except that, under the facade of media, politics, political correctnes and...
Comcast Business was here at 8am (they told me between 8 and 10am: he actually got here ten minutes early and waited until 8am to call). We talked about how he would not be coming inside: because of...
Comcast Business ... different experience. I requested contact yesterday online, got a phone call this morning, pinged them by email when I got free at 2:30pm, talked to them 2 minutes later, had...
Making ham. A whole picnic ham, bone in, skin scored in diamonds, wet brining in salt, curing salt, my rub spice mix. Once it comes out if that I'll inject it with a spiced rum/butter mix and hot...
Today's Eggs Benedict Scratch-made English muffins, sous vide eggs and Hollandaise, made classically with a champagne vinegar/shallot reduction. Instead of Canadian ham is used Black Forest ham....
