What's cookin', good lookin'?

[seela]

The breads look yummy CnC.

I made garlic rosemary bread myself, too, but didn't take a pic. Sometimes I'm so lazy that I rather bake the bread than walk 200 meters to a store or a bakery to buy one. That was the case yesterday.

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

Thank you both

I am looking for a recipe for a bread that I know as English Toasting Bread. If anyone is familiar and has a tried and true recipe, please let me know! It is a firm, semi dense bread with some corn meal along with white flour, as I know it. I would love to bake it!

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[desertslave]

Thank you both

I am looking for a recipe for a bread that I know as English Toasting Bread. If anyone is familiar and has a tried and true recipe, please let me know! It is a firm, semi dense bread with some corn meal along with white flour, as I know it. I would love to bake it!

I had to ask my baker buddy, she's the pro. This is the one she uses.

http://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/english-muffin-toasting-bread-recipe

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

I had to ask my baker buddy, she's the pro. This is the one she uses.

http://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/english-muffin-toasting-bread-recipe

Awesome ! I will try it. Thank you so much!

 

[BiBunny]

<snip>I wonder how there are people who can say a blanket ' I do not like vegetables'.</snip>

I've never understood that, either. Or people who "hide" vegetables by shredding or chopping them up very finely and putting them in strongly-flavored dishes so they don't have to taste them.

IMO, the only food group better than vegetables is fruit, but it's still a pretty close race between the two of them.

Also, your dinner--and everyone else's, too--sounds amazing.

 

[IrisAlthea]

I've never understood that, either. Or people who "hide" vegetables by shredding or chopping them up very finely and putting them in strongly-flavored dishes so they don't have to taste them.

IMO, the only food group better than vegetables is fruit, but it's still a pretty close race between the two of them.

Also, your dinner--and everyone else's, too--sounds amazing.

Yes, yes, yes!

People at work, complain about how they can't get their kids to eat more vegetables even though they use tricks they read in magazines, like "put lentils in the bolognese".

Well duh!
I love lentils but I sure don't want them in my bolognese or in other dishes where they don't belong.

We had french onion soup with a cover of toasted sourdough baguette and a mountain of Gryere, last night. Yum!
Today is mushroom soup.
Yes, we are having a soup theme.

 

[desertslave]

On veggies:

Many years ago, as a newlywed, we had several single friends who were college or grad students. We (my ex and I) were relatively well-off compared to our friends, and would throw regular weekend "grub & gaming" parties. A new friend was introduced and, being sensitive to allergies and the like, I inquired about her food preferences.

"Do you eat meat?"
"No, I'm mostly vegetarian, except bacon."
"Okay, what veggies do you like?"
"Oh, I don't like vegetables!"
"Ummmm, so what do you eat?"
"Oh, mostly Doritos and cheese."



It turned out that she'd never had most veggies and that her mom was a terrible cook (limp veg, burnt meat). I gradually introduced her to broccoli, cauliflower, salads, beets, and even brussels sprouts (with bacon LOL).

 

[BiBunny]

Yes, yes, yes!

People at work, complain about how they can't get their kids to eat more vegetables even though they use tricks they read in magazines, like "put lentils in the bolognese".

Well duh!
I love lentils but I sure don't want them in my bolognese or in other dishes where they don't belong.

THANK YOU.

We had french onion soup with a cover of toasted sourdough baguette and a mountain of Gryere, last night. Yum!
Today is mushroom soup.
Yes, we are having a soup theme.

Yum! Soup sounds really good right now. Y'know, at 1 am.

Now I really want chili and sour cream!

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[IrisAlthea]

I think that besides personal likes and dislikes, to which each individual is subject, in a house where parents like vegetables children are normally ( not always but normally) open to them, and inversely, where parents dislike them children will see them as a chore too. In my own circle I noted that children love vegetables until some realise school mates think its not so cool to like vegetables.

( I admit to having been vegetable hider when taking care of kids who already 'hate' vegetables......as well as cooking with them and having them include vegetables in meals...and providing snacks of fruit and vegetables in tasty ways.....sometimes the children.......and maybe the parents....are such poor eaters, and have poor taste buds and getting to a moment where a vegetable willingly passes lips is difficult.)

In Sweden, one of the problems is that we have a tradition to feed small kids gruel and have also taken up the tradition to feed them porrige.
The recommendation is to wait until they are 6 months before you start this.

On the other hand, breastfeeding is promoted very much, so they recommend you not to start letting the kids taste anything but breastmilk until they are four months at least.
This leaves at best 2 months of tasting other stuff.
The fact that most parents buy redymade babyfood means that they limit you to potato, carrot and corn and combinations thereof.

When the time for insta gruel or insta porrige comes, that is what most kids get, because it's so easy.

And then when they are 13, parents want to convince them broccoli is da bomb.
Well, good luck!

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[Que]

My kids love brussel sprouts and as far as I know used to love broccoli. My version of beef with broccoli stir fry was always a staple. Fairly recently one of my now adult kids said I don't really like broccoli and the others chimed in that they didn't either. I'm asking since when? They claim since always.

A friend stopprd by and I happened to have a couple of artichokes so I steamed them for us. He mentioned that his ex used to mix olive oil, butter and garlic for the dip. Technically I would prefer mine with aioli but I've never had it that way because I've never made an aioli when I had an artichoke. My family always serve them with mayonnaise to dip them in. Not tremendously sophisticated, but it's a nostalgic taste for me.

Since I have tried aioli a grand total of three times and I am batting .333, I decided to use his exes method. It was really really good and I think that I made it in advance and refrigerated at the olive oil would have set up and it would have been easier to dip. assaulted mine a bit because the olive oil diluted the salty taste of the butter.

Next time I'm going to try it with a little rosemary as well.

 

[IrisAlthea]

My kids love brussel sprouts and as far as I know used to love broccoli. My version of beef with broccoli stir fry was always a staple. Fairly recently one of my now adult kids said I don't really like broccoli and the others chimed in that they didn't either. I'm asking since when? They claim since always.

A friend stopprd by and I happened to have a couple of artichokes so I steamed them for us. He mentioned that his ex used to mix olive oil, butter and garlic for the dip. Technically I would prefer mine with aioli but I've never had it that way because I've never made an aioli when I had an artichoke. My family always serve them with mayonnaise to dip them in. Not tremendously sophisticated, but it's a nostalgic taste for me.

Since I have tried aioli a grand total of three times and I am batting .333, I decided to use his exes method. It was really really good and I think that I made it in advance and refrigerated at the olive oil would have set up and it would have been easier to dip. assaulted mine a bit because the olive oil diluted the salty taste of the butter.

Next time I'm going to try it with a little rosemary as well.

We dip artichokes in a mix of butter and olive oil too.
I'll have to try adding garlic sometime.

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

I dip my artichokes in mayo with balsamic vinegar blended in. I'm not necessarily a mayo fan, but I do like that.

I have never had Jerusalem artichokes! I remain curious.

 

[Endless_Night]

I like artichokes, and have had them served to me whole several times. But, for some reason, I'm too intimidated to try and cook them whole on my own.

Do not ask me why.

 

[seela]

Jerusalem artichokes. Now I want some!

I made a mushroom quiche with saffron milk caps, yellowfoots and orange birch boletes. Oh, so good.

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[seela]

I think people make a big thing about the choke, its offputtingly to do something people buildup so much.

I used to make souffles for my friends all the time and didn't think they were fancy. Just something that was easy to put together and something a little different. I was still living with my parents then, so it was a long time before I even got interested in cooking.

Then someone told me they're so impressed by my souffle making because it's so difficult to make them. Like the hardest thing in the world difficult. After that I started to stress out about making them and they started to collapse too.

I still make a pretty mean chili chocolate souffle, but it's not as effortless anymore as it used to be. Baking it makes me stressed. Damn that friend!

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[IrisAlthea]

I used to make souffles for my friends all the time and didn't think they were fancy. Just something that was easy to put together and something a little different. I was still living with my parents then, so it was a long time before I even got interested in cooking.

Then someone told me they're so impressed by my souffle making because it's so difficult to make them. Like the hardest thing in the world difficult. After that I started to stress out about making them and they started to collapse too.

I still make a pretty mean chili chocolate souffle, but it's not as effortless anymore as it used to be. Baking it makes me stressed. Damn that friend!

Yup.
It's the same as with dogs. They can feel it if you are afraid.

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

Jerusalem artichokes. Now I want some!

I made a mushroom quiche with saffron milk caps, yellowfoots and orange birch boletes. Oh, so good.

And I actually know what you are talking about now!
I went on a mushroom forage and found 10 different species, THREE of which I could positively identify. I was pretty happy with that!

Naturally, one was poisonous, one was inedible, and the oyster mushrooms were not enough to harvest and use. The other seven I wasn't quite sure, or had no idea at all. I'm pretty happy with that result for a first foray, though!

 

[midwestyankee]

And I actually know what you are talking about now!
I went on a mushroom forage and found 10 different species, THREE of which I could positively identify. I was pretty happy with that!

Naturally, one was poisonous, one was inedible, and the oyster mushrooms were not enough to harvest and use. The other seven I wasn't quite sure, or had no idea at all. I'm pretty happy with that result for a first foray, though!

Next time you go there, be sure to tell the produce manager about the poor signage.