Recipes, home grown goodness, BBQing and food stuff
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@nzzp said in Recipes, home grown goodness, BBQing and food stuff:
@canefan said in Recipes, home grown goodness, BBQing and food stuff:
@Crucial said in Recipes, home grown goodness, BBQing and food stuff:
@jegga said in Recipes, home grown goodness, BBQing and food stuff:
@Crucial nope , that thing needs to be smothered in melted butter .
Warm bread, soft salty butter I agree
But not hot bread. The dough shrinks up and doesn’t stay moist for long.
Patience
Anchovy butter or smoked butter. Yum
how is smoked butter? I've been thinking about making some, just never actually had it. What do yo uuse it for (aside from fresh bread, obviously).
Also, Panasonic Breadmakers FTW. We have hardly bought bread in 15 years... not as awesome as hand made, but still superb for little effort.
Once you've done smoked butter, then do smoked lemon juice, its good frozen into ice cubes in drinks . Also dark chocolate in the smoker and then in the fridge again till it sets is bloody good.
Smoked tomato, onions or boiled kumera smoked are all good too. I try to chuck something on the top shelf of the smoker if there no meat on there. -
@nzzp said in Recipes, home grown goodness, BBQing and food stuff:
Also, Panasonic Breadmakers FTW. We have hardly bought bread in 15 years... not as awesome as hand made, but still superb for little effort.
Effort in that sourdough loaf was under 10 minutes spread over 24 hours including feeding the starter.
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@Crucial said in Recipes, home grown goodness, BBQing and food stuff:
@nzzp said in Recipes, home grown goodness, BBQing and food stuff:
Also, Panasonic Breadmakers FTW. We have hardly bought bread in 15 years... not as awesome as hand made, but still superb for little effort.
Effort in that sourdough loaf was under 10 minutes spread over 24 hours including feeding the starter.
Would be the same for two or three loavesYep, it's great.
But 2 minutes effort to wake up to freshly made bread, day after day is pretty tempting.
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@nzzp said in Recipes, home grown goodness, BBQing and food stuff:
@Crucial said in Recipes, home grown goodness, BBQing and food stuff:
@nzzp said in Recipes, home grown goodness, BBQing and food stuff:
Also, Panasonic Breadmakers FTW. We have hardly bought bread in 15 years... not as awesome as hand made, but still superb for little effort.
Effort in that sourdough loaf was under 10 minutes spread over 24 hours including feeding the starter.
Would be the same for two or three loavesYep, it's great.
But 2 minutes effort to wake up to freshly made bread, day after day is pretty tempting.
Yeah, I used to have one but have since unlearned all I had been taught about making bread (kneading, punching down, warm proofing) and gone for time, structure and fermentation.
The bread is no longer empty calories and cotton wool with a nice smell.
Amazing what the food industry convinced us was good bread in order to sell cheap and quick.
These so called gluten intolerances are at worst intolerance to indigestible goo. Fermented wheat and water is more digestible and more nutritious. It’s why bread became a staple food in various forms across the world.Yes, I’m a born again bread bore.
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Dunno if this belongs in this thread, but I've just made some home-made Tia Maria as the whanau likes to drink the stuff over Christmas. Used good quality stuff - coffee beans, dark rum and vanilla pods.
Tastes real good - not much cheaper than the commercial stuff but lots more depth of flavour and interest
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@Victor-Meldrew funny that no matter where you are in the world people only tend to drink it around Christmas!! Like the sound of this myself, did you use a recipe, I want to start experimenting with drinks like this other than the usual mulled wine, hot whiskeys etc.
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@Crucial I met this health coach recently at a conference, her main audience is older ladies but she had some great material on well being in general, totally passionate about traditional food and cooking, particularly "reclaiming bread". I'd became a bit of a bread-phobe over the years but I'm definitely going to give sourdough a go. Seems to be a bread men love cooking too!
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@R-L said in Recipes, home grown goodness, BBQing and food stuff:
@Victor-Meldrew funny that no matter where you are in the world people only tend to drink it around Christmas!! Like the sound of this myself, did you use a recipe, I want to start experimenting with drinks like this other than the usual mulled wine, hot whiskeys etc.
Just picked up some ideas from various recipes on the web. This is what I did:
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750ml of dark rum
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2 vanilla pods split down teh middle
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10g coffee beans.
- Stick in an airtight jar and leave for a week, shake very day.
- Check you have the amount of coffee/vanilla flavour you want then strain out the beans & Vanilla pods
- Make a sugar syrup of 400ml & 400g sugar and let cool.
- Mix with the coffee/vanilla rum to taste
- Bottle...
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@Victor-Meldrew sounds like a good replacement for Port in the old Xmas slammer.
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@Bones said in Recipes, home grown goodness, BBQing and food stuff:
@Victor-Meldrew sounds like a good replacement for Port in the old Xmas slammer.
Sacre Bleu, Non, non, non!
The bottle of Vintage Port after the Christmas Pud is a sacrosanct tradition for any Meldrew Family Christmas
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@Victor-Meldrew it's best slammed! Piece of cheese, shot of port, grape.
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@Victor-Meldrew I could use this in a tiramisu, I'd probably just want to drink it though
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@R-L
Drink it putting up the Christmas Tree. Bit of a tradition like the Single Malt being opened on Dec 1.
It's really all about alcohol isn't it?
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@Victor-Meldrew Baileys is a favourite of mine at Christmas, god its like Christmas in a bottle, never drink it any other time of year. "Santa's milk" is what we called it last year when it was left out with a mince pie on Xmas eve.
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