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Yesterday's lunch was the Virtuous Vegan Harissa Tofu Bowl with Farro from The Global Pantry Cookbook. Yes, good grief on the recipe name. And yet, I made the leftovers even more virtuous by cooking up more vegetables to throw in with my reheated bowl:

Are you making both corn tortillas and flour tortillas for your tacos? Or are you buying them and looking for filling ideas? I'm a big fan of breakfast tacos and love using flour tortillas made with bacon fat. Potato & egg is a great combo. Chorizo, avocado, eggs and cheese. Bean, cheese and bacon. Also, of course, fish tacos, generally with freshly made corn tortillas.

Eat Your Books shows it in the 1975 Sixth Edition and the 2006 75th Anniversary Edition

Harissa tofu bowl with farro from The Global Pantry Cookbook This cookbook is about cooking with "global" ingredients in different ways, using those ingredients purchased for one cookbook or recipe. I'm generally pleased with the recipes and the results but some of the recipe names irritate me. For example, this one is called Virtuous Vegan Harissa Tofu Bowl with Farro. Others use unnecessary superlatives - "creamiest" is included in the recipe name for grits, hummus and a curry. Obviously, I'm trying to get over it 🙃

Eggs for breakfast but perhaps not in the typical manner. Cabbage Carbonara-ish from Tenderheart by Hetty Lui McKinnon. No meat but a bit of miso adds a hit of umami that makes this taste surprisingly carbonara-ish. I made this per the recipe except for using 2 oz pasta/serving instead of 4. With about 150g of cabbage/serving, I didn't miss the extra pasta.

Salad of Sugar Snap Peas, Turnip, Strawberries and Quinoa with a Miso-Maple Vinaigrette from Tenderheart by Hetty Lui McKinnon. Nice combination of flavors and textures.

In cookbooks I have, it's primarily used in sauces and in baking. Handy because it can easily be mixed into either wet or dry ingredients in a way that peanut butter can't be. Edited to add that if you search the forums for "Peanut Butter Powder" you'll find a topic in the baking and pastry area with a few posts, Peanut Butter Powder and other posts by members using it in different ways, like @mgaretz in ice creams or frozen desserts and quite a few using it in candymaking.

I haven't tried the risotto but I will!

Yeah, grocery margins are notoriously low, which Amazon must know from Whole Foods, it's hard to figure they could make a killing going head to head on top selling TJ's products. Especially since so many are refrigerated or frozen items. Now, I could give them a list of discontinued TJ's products that I'd be happy to order if Amazon decided to resurrect them! They certainly do sound pretty ruthless!

Thanks for bringing that recipe up, @NadyaDuke. Not sure how I haven't tried it yet as Eric's single-serving recipes usually suck me in!

The Whole Turnip Pasta from Tenderheart. Half of the turnip greens are blitzed into a bright pistachio pesto and the other half are sautéed and tossed with the pasta along with the pan browned, then steamed turnip roots. At first bite, I thought this was just OK but it really grew on me and I'd absolutely make it again. As written, and to my taste, this needs a hit of acid to brighten and contrast with the sweetness of the cooked turnip and bitterness of the greens. I added a squeeze of fresh lemon juice to the pesto and a sprinkle of diced preserved lemon rind to the finished dish and was happy with that. I think crumbled feta would also work. The crunch from the roasted pistachios is key but another crunchy ingredient could fill in. I always use 2 oz of pasta/serving rather than the 4 oz in the recipe and thought this was good as a vegetarian main but one could easily add shrimp, chicken or salmon, either to the dish or alongside.

That looks excellent, @Neely, but I’ve got to ask. What is ❓

My first experience with grits was on a family road trip somewhere in the southern US when I was a kid. The previous day, I'd ordered hush puppies and was rewarded, not with a shoe, but cute little deep fried balls of deliciousness. This emboldened me to try another unfamiliar corn product, grits. I was presented a little bowl of something that looked like cream of wheat with a big pat of margarine sitting on top but not melting at all. I didn't try them again until Vivian Howard and her Deep Run Roots convinced me to give them another try and I've been a fan ever since. If you decide to try them, see if you can get something stone ground. I order them from Marsh Hen Mill but I don't know if they ship to Canada. Anson Mills is another good brand. On to today's lunch, a shrimp roll with yuzu kosho mayo from The Global Pantry Cookbook, using the little Oregon bay shrimp I got in this week's fish share.

What country are you in, @Yoda? You might search for "cake flour substitute in @Yoda's country" Google told me that in Italy: "For cookies, bars, cakes/cupcakes, biscuits, scones, or anything that needs a tender crumb, use Farina di grano tenero, 00" And in Germany: "Type 405 is finest ground flour you will find in Germany. It has the highest starch content which makes it ideal for the baking of cupcakes and cakes where you want a finer crumb" You might find something that will work for you.

I only use fleur de sel for a finishing salt so I've never much worried about measuring it out but I would expect it to vary depending on the brand and style. Serious Eats includes a generic "fleur de sel" in this article that compares mass/volume measurements and shows fleur de sel comparable to Morton's kosher salt. I have Jacobsen's pure flake sea salt that came in at 10 g/Tablespoon and a gros sel de Guérande (coarse grey sea salt) that's 14 g/Tablespoon

Savory Corn-on-Corn Pancakes with Butter-Basted Eggs from The Global Pantry Cookbook I was curious to try these pancakes made with masa harina. I used the stuff from Masienda and they have a great corny flavor but are very light and fluffy as compared with a cornmeal cake that's usually heavier and sometimes a bit gritty. These would be great with either a sweet or savory topping. The corn topping has corn, scallions, jalapeño and red pepper, all sautéed in butter and seasoned with Tajín.

Yes, that’s the right kind. They’re quite tasty - crispy on the outside, tender on the inside. Mmmmm!

Ghee-Basted Hasseltots topped with sour cream and bacon from The Global Pantry Cookbook and scrambled eggs The little spuds are in the snacks and appetizer section of this cookbook but I figured they'd be fine for breakfast, too. It would be a little tedious do up a couple dozen of them but they are quite cute. Here's a couple out of the oven, without toppings: They get basted with ghee three times so they're quite buttery and tasty. Caviar and crème fraîche is one of the suggested topping combos and would be excellent washed down with some nice Champagne!

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@rotuts pretty much captured it but if anyone wants to read the whole article, here's a gift link. I agree that most of these have been thoroughly debunked but they continue to be perpetuated in cookbooks, new and old. The pasta water tasting like the sea is especially odd as many people have never tasted the sea or have no memory of it to reference but almost every one knows how salty they like their soup.

Chile Shrimp with Coconut Grits from The Global Pantry Cookbook by Ann Taylor Pittman and Scott Mowbray with steamed sugar snap peas. This was very good. Never would I ever have thought to cook grits with coconut milk and lemon grass but it worked really well. The shrimp are marinated in a mix of sambal oelek, fish sauce and soy sauce. I'll have more to say about this book over in the cookbook topic after I've cooked a few more recipes.

My electric wall ovens use the third heating element behind the back wall of the oven, near the fan, during cooking for all convection settings. Once the oven is turned off, the fan will continue to run for a bit without the element on, which I assumed was to prevent that area behind the oven from building up excess residual heat. My understanding is that there are some inexpensive "convection" ovens sold in the US that just have a fan but no third element. I haven't run across one but I've seen articles that say to look for "true convection" or "third element convection" or "European convection" to make sure to get that functionality.

Inspired by @Ann_T's recent post, but sadly lacking her amazing bread, I made do with my egg salad on a brioche bun:

I would imagine there are.

The other lemon confit recipe that I like uses whole slices of lemon instead of just the zest so it has a much more complex and tangy flavor with some bitterness from the pith. I think it's a much more interesting condiment than the one above. The recipe can be found online here: Master Class Lemon Confit Recipe. This one gets cooked in a low oven for 2 hrs and is great on pasta, fish, tossed with white beans, on toasted crostini. As with the recipe above, you can give this one a rough chop, add capers and parsley for a nice lemon confit relish. The recipe gives the option of using rosemary or thyme. I've always used rosemary and used more than they say but I think I'll try a batch with thyme. Might also try this with a mix of citrus, including some of the "quats" like kumquat, limequat, mandarinquat, etc. The recipe says you can use either regular lemons or Meyer lemons. I've used and liked both but will caution that with Meyer lemons, it's best not to slice them super thin as the slices tend to disintegrate. I also like the tartness of the regular lemons a bit better. Here's what this one looks like before going into the oven: And after 2 hrs: