Quarantine Cooking

[Charly]

My turn to show some bread.
About a week ago, a friend gave me some of her sourdough, so I started by trying to figure if I can feed it correctly (which took me a few days...).
When I saw it was nicely active with a nice smell (wednesday), I decided : it's time to make some bread !

So here is the result, my first home breads ever :



I am very happy because they are really good ! Well, they WERE very good, since we ate them already.

The breads were made with two different flours :
- wheat flour (the left one)
- "petit épautre" or "Triticum monococcum" flour (the right one)

Next step : trying to make them become a bit more airy.

 

[deluxestogie]

Charly, beautiful loaves.

It has been said that homemade bread is more fattening than store-bought bread, because you eat twice as much of the homemade.

Bob

 

[Charly]

We have a very good baker where we live, so we always have some good bread, but i am proud my first home made bread had nothing to be ashamed of (compared to our baker's bread)

 

[GreenDragon]

Those are beautiful @Charly ! You have every right to be proud.

 

[deluxestogie]

Jiffy Swiss Miss Quarantine Cake

To these ingredients (with milk replacing the expected water), I added 1/2 tsp of baking powder, and 1/2 tsp of Mexican vanilla. I then followed the instructions on the Jiffy Cake Mix box.

"Can Bobby come out and play?"
"I'm sorry, Billy. He's into quarantine cake right now, both having it and eating it too."

Bob

 

[Charly]

At the end of the quarantine we will all end up being good cook !
Nice cake, was it good ?

 

[deluxestogie]

was it good ?

I've eaten only one large square of it (1/9 of the cake), so I'll have to get back to you on how it tastes--after sampling and some statistical manipulations. The preliminary result is that I almost ate two squares of it, one after the other.

Bob

 

[deluxestogie]

The Swiss Miss and vanilla give this cake a soft, milk chocolate flavor, rather than the usual cloying, "rich, dark chocolate" of chocolate cake mixes. Using milk instead of water results in its being more moist, because of the added milk fat (I used whole milk).

Bob

 

[tullius]

@Charly Those fine loaves sure don't look like your first. Damn french bakers . Excellent work.

Here are the results of the other night's mixing up, not too bad crumb for 25% semolina. I expected better.

 

[GreenDragon]

Apple cherry pie.

 

[deluxestogie]

There's a lot of fine cooking happening.

Bob

 

[Charly]

@Charly Those fine loaves sure don't look like your first. Damn french bakers . Excellent work.

Thank you very much, but since I have only done it one time, I call it the beginner's luck.
I will soon try again (my wife want me to try to do a brioche ! So it will be a first try, again (I shiver).

"Damn french bakers" :

Your bread seems very good too ! Congratulations.

 

[MarcL]

Dog biscuits with spent grain. (from beer)

 

[deluxestogie]

I assume those are for a dog to eat?

Bob

 

[GreenDragon]

@MarcL That's brilliant! I've made bread with my spent grains before but never thought to put them in dog treats. Although, I would probably have to banish the Labrador from the house if he ate any of those; he's quite gassy enough as-is.

 

[MarcL]

Yes and, because I have no dogs here, they are getting shipped out but, they do taste like granola bars w/o sugar.

 

[MarcL]

Looks like from scratch muffin bread as far as I can tell but, I'll have to ask for the recipe if you want it.

 

[MarcL]

Homemade Golden Grahams? (wih a little honey malt wheat added)

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[deluxestogie]

"...in an effort to protect coastal cities from the Black Death ravaging 14th-Century Europe, ships arriving in Venice from infected ports were required to sit at anchor for 40 days (quaranta giorni) before landing, a practice that eventually became known as quarantine – derived from ‘quarantino’, the Italian word for a 40-day period."

Dubrovnik: The medieval city designed around quarantine

The Lazarettos of Dubrovnik are a reminder of the city’s foresight in combating infectious diseases centuries ago.

www.bbc.com

Bob

 

[deluxestogie]

Brandemic in my Fridge!

I just noticed a Walmart House-brandemic in my refrigerator.

The shot was posed, but the new discovery makes my cold fridge a new hot spot.

Bob