It’s tamale time again. We’re getting started really late, and we’re about to be out of town for two days, so we need to have them done by then. Ten dozen down, about fifty dozen more to go.
But boy, are they gooooood.
Stöllen
2 cup liquid sourdough culture
4 3/4 cup flour
1/2 cup water
3/4 cup milk
1/2 cup butter, melted
2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup raisins
1/2 cup currants
1/2 cup citron
1 lemon zest, grated
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon, ground
1/2 teaspoon cloves, ground
1/2 teaspoon cardamom, ground
1/2 cup rum or bourbon
1 tube marzipan or almond paste
1 stick melted butter
confectioners’ sugar, as needed
1. Soak the dried fruit overnight in rum or bourbon.
2. Mix the liquid culture with 1 cup of the flour and 1/4 cup of the water in a large mixing bowl. This is the working culture. Let [...]
The weirdest thing happened to me tonight.
About an hour after I ate dinner (Mangia Pizza Jeff’s special stuffed on wheat), I felt like my face was being stung simultaneously by hundreds of bugs. At first I thought it was just me, but after I mentioned it, hub said, “Wow, are you red.” [...]
Christmas time is tamale time. With a lot of patient phone advice from hub’s mother and grandmother, we decided to try it ourselves.
Check it out here.
Recent pics of the girls are in the gallery.
Dinner tonight was Chicken with 40 Cloves of Garlic, courtesy of Alton Brown’s recipe.
1 whole chicken (broiler/fryer) cut into 8 pieces
1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons olive oil
10 sprigs fresh thyme
40 peeled cloves garlic
Salt and pepper
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Season chicken with salt and pepper. [...]
Better, but it definitely needs more raisins.
On the left is one of the loaves I made the other day. On the right is cinnamon raisin bread I made tonight. It rose fine until I put the final ingredients in and formed it into loaves. I just don’t know what the matter is!
SOURDOUGH BUTTER ROLLS
2 cups sourdough starter ( bubbly at room temp )
2 1/2 cups lukewarm milk
4 tbs sugar
4 tbs. melted butter ( or margarine )
1 tbs. salt
about 7 cups flour
1 stick melted butter or margarine to drizzle over unbaked rolls.
Combine starter, milk, melted butter ( 4 tbs ), sugar and salt. Stir in flour, [...]
For those of you who are Iron Chef fans, I present this:
Iron Chef: Battle Long Pig
I think I peed myself.
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