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Post by Wolfgang on Apr 25, 2018 19:08:48 GMT -5
What the heck is a sourdough starter? How have I lived so long without knowing this? It can not be something that you need. To bake a reliable sourdough bread with a particular sourdough flavor, you need a sourdough starter, which is essentially sourdough dough (it's gooey, has sourdough yeast already, it's a living thing). The process is the same as making other types of bread but you also include the sourdough starter in the mix -- along with flour, sugar/salt, water, oil, and yeast.
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Post by azvb on Apr 25, 2018 20:02:18 GMT -5
What the heck is a sourdough starter? How have I lived so long without knowing this? It can not be something that you need. To bake a reliable sourdough bread with a particular sourdough flavor, you need a sourdough starter, which is essentially sourdough dough (it's gooey, has sourdough yeast already, it's a living thing). The process is the same as making other types of bread but you also include the sourdough starter in the mix -- along with flour, sugar/salt, water, oil, and yeast. And it smells incredible.
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Post by Wolfgang on Apr 25, 2018 20:04:44 GMT -5
When I say I'm "baking" bread, I'm not talking old school. I use a bread machine, y'all. I'm not covered in flour and kneading shiite. It's more like: throw stuff in and press a button and then resume playing video games.
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Post by Wolfgang on Apr 25, 2018 22:35:25 GMT -5
So, I read the wrong instructions in my bread recipe book. I gathered and put all the ingredients for a sourdough DOUGH recipe, not BREAD recipe. So, I had to adjust and fix things to comply with a sourdough BREAD recipe. Lots of stuff were out of proportion. Too much of one thing, too little of another. Three and a half hours later, the bread is done. I thought the bread would turn out awful but actually, it turned out great. I think if you have good sourdough starter, you can't really f*** it up.
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Post by hammer on Apr 26, 2018 0:07:00 GMT -5
The bread my mother made from scratch was incredible. This was the old school way before the invention of bread machines.
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Post by Wolfgang on Apr 26, 2018 15:02:55 GMT -5
I'm eating my sourdough bread. Damn it's good. Rich sourdough taste plus rubbery texture.
Also, a Korean BBQ-flavored turkey jerky. My wife brought it home from her office kitchen because her coworkers didn't like it. To me, it tastes like any other turkey jerky, albeit a bit spicy.
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Post by Wolfgang on Apr 26, 2018 16:13:43 GMT -5
Dark chocolate raisins.
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Post by Wolfgang on Apr 26, 2018 19:02:54 GMT -5
I had to feed my dog before I go out for a run.
Incredible thing about my dog and his auditory sense: He's so tuned to his stainless steel food bowl that even if he's sitting in the corner of the back yard on our property, he can detect any item falling into his food bowl, which is located inside the house in the kitchen. I've dropped a nugget of his dog food onto his bowl and because it's stainless steel, it makes this clank sound (not loud). But he hears it and comes running.
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Post by Phaedrus on Apr 27, 2018 12:56:43 GMT -5
There is a little Italian place around the corner from work. It is owned by an Albanian guy and it has excellent food. Nothing fancy, just a red sauce Italian place. Very middle American.
The thing that drew me in the first time was that they always have pasta fagioli soup and they always made it fresh when I order it. Nothing like it, piping hot and delicious. It was here that I realized the beauty of the typical spaghetti and meat balls. I'd mostly avoided ordering it when I go to the red sauce Italian places, figuring that I wouldn't like it. But this place made the difference. I also usually order a Italian sausage to complement the spaghetti and meatballs. They also serve fresh baked garlic rolls to go with the soup and the spaghetti.
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Post by Wolfgang on Apr 29, 2018 13:07:53 GMT -5
Baking another sourdough bread. This time: whole wheat. If you use a sourdough starter, you can't f*** it up.
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Post by Wolfgang on Apr 29, 2018 15:28:26 GMT -5
I've had my bread machine for a year and I just noticed that it has an indicator on the LCD front panel showing the cycle it's in: Rise-Bake-Warm-End.
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Post by Wolfgang on Apr 29, 2018 22:03:18 GMT -5
My whole wheat sourdough came out well, but not as scrumptious as the traditional white sourdough.
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Post by Phaedrus on Apr 30, 2018 9:26:05 GMT -5
Anyone have good Chinese recipes for the Instant Pot? Just bought one and I have tried a lot of recipes: beef stew, lamb shanks, etc. but would like some Chinese recipes.
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Post by Wolfgang on Apr 30, 2018 15:02:41 GMT -5
Anyone have good Chinese recipes for the Instant Pot? Just bought one and I have tried a lot of recipes: beef stew, lamb shanks, etc. but would like some Chinese recipes. We're not such food purists. We just drop whatever ingredients we have, add water, and then press a button. After we transfer it into our bowls, we add spices and stuff. I guess if we add soy sauce, it instantly becomes a Chinese dish. If we add curry powder, it becomes an Indian dish. If we add pasta, it becomes Italian. If we noodles, it becomes Japanese Udon. If we add, potatoes, it becomes American. Basil and sriracha, it becomes Vietnamese. Sauerkraut, esp. if there's sausage in there, German.
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Post by Phaedrus on Apr 30, 2018 15:30:19 GMT -5
Anyone have good Chinese recipes for the Instant Pot? Just bought one and I have tried a lot of recipes: beef stew, lamb shanks, etc. but would like some Chinese recipes. We're not such food purists. We just drop whatever ingredients we have, add water, and then press a button. After we transfer it into our bowls, we add spices and stuff. I guess if we add soy sauce, it instantly becomes a Chinese dish. If we add curry powder, it becomes an Indian dish. If we add pasta, it becomes Italian. If we noodles, it becomes Japanese Udon. If we add, potatoes, it becomes American. Basil and sriracha, it becomes Vietnamese. Sauerkraut, esp. if there's sausage in there, German. It was worth a shot.
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