The Cookbook
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Chili.
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We upped our pizza game this weekend.
Learned that our gas oven goes up to almost 600. That plus a good pizza dough recipe translated into great results:
Breakfast pizza Saturday morning:
Pizza stone is still on the way. Curious how that’ll change things
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Spinach is good for you. MFR is still asleep so I snuck out to the car where I was hiding the stuff. Assembled Easter baskets for MFR and The Princess. Just little ones with a solid chocolate bunny and some jelly beans.
And of course that fake grass. Sadly on one the jelly beans all got kind of lost in the grass.
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We upped our pizza game this weekend.
Learned that our gas oven goes up to almost 600. That plus a good pizza dough recipe translated into great results:
Breakfast pizza Saturday morning:
Pizza stone is still on the way. Curious how that’ll change things
Are you open to sharing that dough recipe?
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@Aqua-Letifer said in The Cookbook:
@brenda said in The Cookbook:
Is that a biscuit I see atop that chili?
Cornbread!
Thank God! At first look, I thought it was mashed potatoes, and I thought, "Whatever...."
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I've done that, too. Not really recommended but hey, it's edible.
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Are you open to sharing that dough recipe?
@Optimistic absolutely - it’s Ken Forkish’s recipe from his book Flour Water Salt Yeast.
This particular recipe is his overnight dough.
Start with flour, use 70% water (by weight), 2% salt, 0.01% yeast.
So for 1000g flour (white - ideally 00), use 700g water, 20g salt, and 1/4 tsp yeast.
That’s a very small amount of yeast, so you have to let it sit at room temp overnight (12 hours).
Shape into balls and refrigerate. Forkish recommends gentle handling of the risen dough after the rise, so you don’t want all the gas to escape.
It’s also a high hydration dough, so kinda sticky and hard to handle.
Happy to clarify.
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@xenon Great pizza! Enjoy the stone when it arrives. The key is obviously to heat it up so it can get the crust crispy. And obviously use (messy) corn meal for easy dough transfer!
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@89th I’m looking forward to it. I guess I’ll have to eat a buncha pizza till I figure it out. For science.
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@xenon
Well, hubby and I have been doing our part toward that scientific goal, and our waistlines would greatly appreciate your help.
@brenda said in The Cookbook:
@xenon
Well, hubby and I have been doing our part toward that scientific goal, and our waistlines would greatly appreciate your help.You know - a really nice part of this whole quarantine has been a greater appreciation of how much good cooking you can get done with a bit of planning.
Slow cooks, marinates, bread fermenting. Between all the little experiments on the go - I think we're actually spending fewer than average time executing our cooking.
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@brenda said in The Cookbook:
@xenon
Well, hubby and I have been doing our part toward that scientific goal, and our waistlines would greatly appreciate your help.You know - a really nice part of this whole quarantine has been a greater appreciation of how much good cooking you can get done with a bit of planning.
Slow cooks, marinates, bread fermenting. Between all the little experiments on the go - I think we're actually spending fewer than average time executing our cooking.
@xenon
Indeed! That's the beauty of working from home, isn't it? It's also fun to experiment with new recipes and techniques.
I'm wondering how similar or different your pizza dough recipe is from the Peter Reinhart recipe I have used a lot. I'll have to do a side-by-side comparison. -
Tonight's Dinner: Chicken Schnitzel
INGREDIENTS
4 4-ounce skinless, boneless chicken breasts, pounded to 1/8-inch thickness
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
1 cup all-purpose flour (for dredging)
2 large eggs
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
2 cups (or more) whole wheat (or regular) panko (Japanese breadcrumbs)
2 tablespoons canola oil, divided
2 tablespoons unsalted butter, divided
Chopped flat-leaf parsley
Lemon wedgesLine a baking sheet with waxed paper. Season chicken breasts with salt and pepper. Place flour on a plate. Beat eggs and Dijon mustard to blend in a shallow baking dish. Place 1 cup panko in another shallow baking dish, adding remaining 1 cup panko, or more, to dish as needed throughout process. Working with 1 chicken breast at a time, dredge in flour, shaking off excess, then dip into egg mixture, turning to coat evenly; carefully coat with panko, pressing panko gently to adhere to chicken. Transfer chicken to prepared baking sheet.
Heat 1 Tbsp. oil and 1 Tbsp. butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat (pan should be large enough to hold 2 breasts). Add 2 chicken breasts to skillet and cook until golden brown on both sides, 8-10 minutes. Transfer chicken breasts to a paper towel-lined plate and season with salt. Add remaining 1 Tbsp. oil and 1 Tbsp. butter to skillet and repeat with remaining chicken breasts. Transfer chicken breasts to plates and garnish each with parsley and a lemon wedge.
This is one of Mrs. George's favorites. Tonight, we added some baked potato and steamed broccoli.
