Cover a baking sheet with parchment paper or reusable liner. Cut off 1/4th of refrigerated dough and roll until it’s about 1/16” thick. I roll it like it is pasta on the pasta machine down to the 5th setting. Placed rolled dough on prepared baking sheet. Using a knife, or pastry ...
There are lots of things to like about this bread, like stacking it with thinly sliced crisp cucumbers, topped with oily mackerel, shallots, and parsley like in the picture above. I also like it with thick cut bacon and peas shoots, or simply toasted and topped with butter and lingonberry...
roll out dough into a roughly ½” thick rectangle. carefully and snugly roll up the rectangle jelly roll-style, and gently form it into an oblong loaf around11"long. this process helps create a traditional flaky, layered crumb texture in the bread.place the formed dough into the base of...
Pancakes:Thinly slice pork (about 1/8 of an inch thick if you can, 1 inch by 2 inch rectangles), peel shrimp and slice in half, thinly slice onion. Heat large skillet over medium high. Add about 1 TB of neutral oil and half a handful of onion, stir. Then add 4-8 pieces each o...
Cooking: Chicken & Leek Bake. I don’t buy ready meals, I’ve always cooked from scratch. But weirdly when I was grocery shopping online last week, the store showed me a chicken and bacon and leek gratin thing in a plastic box. Urgh, but it was one of those instant ‘I must make...
Just blanch fresh green beans for 3-5 minutes in boiling salted water, then plunge them in ice, pat dry with paper towels, and wrap with bacon. I used a thick-sliced hickory smoked bacon. I also sprinkled half of the bundles with a coarsely ground black pepper to add so zing, because...
4 slices bacon, cut into 1/2 inch pieces 1 medium yellow onion, diced 3 green onions, sliced 1 small clove garlic, minced 3 sprigs of fresh thyme, or 1 teaspoon dried 1 bay leaf 2 teaspoons salt 1/2 teaspoon black pepper 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg ...
My cottage is old, with thick walls and high ceilings, in the summer its wonderfully cool to the extent that during this August’s heatwave I found myself leaving the cottage dressed for a crisp spring day and would have to instantly turn on my heels once hit with the wall of baking he...
(pod being like minded fully vaccinated friends) for pepperoni pizza dinner. SOOOO for filling I used pepperoni seasoned baby Bella mushrooms sliced, there were 4 half slices of cooked bacon added to the mushrooms … then there were two dough balls left when I ran out of mushrooms and bacon...
and then either water or milk. It was originally leavened/raised with yeast in some form or other, be that a live starter culture/sourdough starter or balm from brewing or baker’s yeast. You make a thick batter of it, let it ferment and bubble up and then you spread it on a griddl...