Baking our overnight risen daily everyday #sourdough bread and the most joyful bit is the little ball of extra dough that we put in a bowl with olive oil to rise overnight and bake along with the breads. Topped with some cheese & garlic.
It makes the most gorgeous little focaccia for lunch sandwiches on a Monday.
The flour here is all organic spelt. We buy it in bulk and have again moved to making all our bread with it. It has so much flavour.
Food, bread
Finally! A decent #sourdough loaf
Two different takes on the idea of a strawberry-frosted lemon bar -- "strawberry lemonade bars".
The first is from King Arthur. The bars ended up oily and overly flexible -- probably from using flax eggs instead of real egg. Maybe psyllium husk would've been better here. But it's all dairy-free using plant butter, and the result is tasty, even if oily.
The second are vegan lemon brownies (vegan to avoid dairy for allergies, and expensive eggs) with a strawberry marshmallow fluff frosting. The first batch was gross as far as brownies -- leave out the lemon extract -- but the second small batch was great! The fluff didn't fluff up right, but it set well and was still delicious.
Lots of things learned. Was fun though! Even if I was disappointed at the time.
Recipes:
Strawberry Lemonade Bars - https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/strawberry-lemonade-bars-recipe
Lemon Brownies - https://www.noracooks.com/lemon-brownies/
Marshmallow fluff - https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/homemade-marshmallow-spread-recipe
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Bake two: Strawberry Lemonade Bars, redux, with a different set of recipes that should combine far better! https://twitch.tv/kayohtie
I have been on a mission to make vegan style crumble cookies as we don’t have them in the UK and I don’t think they do vegan options. These are chocolate chip peanut butter cookies. I used aquafaba and Xanathgum for the egg replacer. 10/10 taste #vegan #veganfood #baking #cookies
@sebwhatever @actuallyautistic @actuallyadhd @actuallyaudhd lately I don’t have the energy for anything new, so I am falling back to the defaults that bring me comfort:
- #baking - #sourdough #breads mainly, but also anything I have the ingredients at hand
- trying to go back to #blogging more regularly - it was my first love, but also helps with offloading the thoughts that would otherwise plague my brain and keep coming at me
- #data as a hobby
A belated Mother’s Day cake. It is vegan toffee cake with vegan vanilla buttercream decorated with flesh flowers and gold foil. #vegan #veganfood #baking #cake
I'm halfway okay with the outcome of this one.
40 wheat / 60 whole-grain rye and some freshly ground seeds and spices.
#baking
Baked #sourdough bread.
Is brick
Chatting with my daughter every day while we protest has been really special.
She is smart, funny, empathetic and fiercely liberal.
I am a proud mom.
She is also really good at reminding me that my cinnamon scones were her absolute favorite baked thing I have ever baked.
So today I got the hint and will give them another go.
I so hope that they turn out the same. You never know with me.
My free wheeling approach to recipes gets me in trouble sometimes when I need to deliver the same thing again.
Fingers crossed they are good.
They are in the freezer now getting cold before I pop them in the oven.
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Just hit the King Arthur Flour site looking for a biscuit recipe to go with tonight's stew and the banner was a recipe for a "Giant Hostess Cupcake" https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/giant-hostess-cupcake-cake-recipe
Modern Hostess products are, well, crap. But I loved the cupcakes as a kid. Guess I have a project for tomorrow afternoon.
A very cost effective alternative to eggs is aquafaba, the water from chickpeas. Chickpeas are very cheap and the water from them makes a great alternative to eggs in baking as they can whipped up. So you can use the water in baking and the chickpeas in a wide variety of recipes.
#vegan #veganfood #baking #food
Pre-COVID, I baked a pie almost every week for a little over a year. It was a very fun project, I learned so much about my favorite dessert, refined techniques, experienced new pies (Dried Apple Pie was probably my favorite forgotten pie). It was all documented on a site named “Year of Pie.” It was lost to SquareSpace, though.
But thanks to a post from @toddtyrtle, I discovered that static site generators had become a thing. With the help of the Way Back Machine, I was able to grab an 90% complete version of the old text. And all the old photos have been on a hard drive, because why toss pics of pie?
So, it’s rough. There are major missing pieces. There are obvious layout issues. Old posts are being added every few days, but happy enough to put it out there.
Edit: American sweet pies, not English savory pies. Though a few of those were made later in the project.
Bouillabaisse with garlicy #sourdough spelt focaccia and aioli.
No salmon, just sustainable white fish and mussels.
This is the most amazing soup, it has so much flavour.
Tell me you’re a #chemist without telling me you’re a chemist
#tare #baking #standmixer #bakestodon