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Is it this recipe for Instant Pot Cabbage Soup he posted in the Instant Pot topic?

For anyone curious about what the Modernist Cuisine online course is going to cover, here's an overview: Getting Started with Bread Basics—March 2024 Navigating Bread Making from Start to Finish—April 2024 Fitting Bread into Busy Schedules—May 2024 The Role of Different Bread Ingredients—June 2024 How to Start a Levain and Keep It Alive—July 2024 Mixing and Gluten Development—August 2024

That omelette looks fabulous! I got some big fat asparagus from Aldi recently (also grown in Mexico) and it was also excellent. I only needed to peel the very bottom of the stems as the outside was a little fibrous but the inside wasn't woody at all so very little waste. Hope Moe's dental work goes smoothly and he doesn't need smoothies for very long!

Seeing the pancakes and reading @ElsieD's comment reminded me that my first regular cooking job was to make the pancakes and sausage for our Sunday breakfast after church, also probably around 10 years old. Took me a while to get the whole thing down as the egg whites had to be separated, whipped and folded in to the rest of the batter. I moved on to cookies, simple cakes and quick breads but the pancakes were my regular job. Other than that, my mom didn't want anyone in the kitchen when she was cooking and never wanted my "help." The kitchen was quite small so I certainly would have been in the way but I think it was more that she was very thrifty and feared I might do something wrong and waste food. Also on the thrift side, she might not have wanted anyone to see how carefully she trimmed off wilt-y or discolored bits to maximize what was left to eat. Wish I could ask her about that now!

Pasta alla Norcina from Diana Henry's Roast Figs, Sugar Snow with a bunch of roasted broccolini thrown in. Very much the same thing as Marcella's pasta with sausage and cream in Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking. Both specify a mild sausage with no chile peppers or fennel. I bought a sweet Italian sausage but it did have fennel but it was fine.

In her bagel book, Cathy Barrow says it’s OK to sub equal volumes non-diastatic malt powder for malt syrup. She does not recommend using diastatic malt powder but says honey, cane syrup, maple syrup or golden syrup can be used. 2 g is a very small amount. A tablespoon of malt syrup weighs 21 g so 2 g would be around 1/4 to 1/3 teaspoon.

Space X also launched a Falcon 9 from Vandenberg last night. I was unaware until the boom shook the house and rattled the windows. First thing I do is check the Twitter feeds for the quake bots I follow in case it was an earthquake, then Google Vandenberg launch. Takes about 9 or 10 min for the sound to reach here so too late to run out and see but it was quite clear last night so lots of 🚀 photos on Facebook & Nextdoor.

I also got the email. I signed up for their emails but haven't purchased the book....yet! Edited to add that the email also trumpets: Modernist Bread at Home is on sale now! I clicked through to learn that "on sale" doesn't mean there's a price break, it just means it's now being sold!

As mentioned above, I made the Sautéed Alaskan Black Cod with Endive and Hazenuts on p 78 of Sunday Suppers at Lucques. The fish gets seasoned with lemon zest, thyme and parsley for at least 4 hrs, up to overnight. I wasn't sure this was necessary but the lemon zest did brighten the rich fish. The bitter veg get carmelized with the help of a sprinkle of sugar and are a good contrast to the fish and the browned butter hazelnut sauce. A few substitutes. The header notes say black cod is overfished in California so Alaskan fish is specified. The fish I got is from California, caught with deepwater longline gear and Seafood Watch green-lights longlined Black Cod as a ‘Best Choice,’ because it is abundant and the fishing method is low impact to the environment so I get permission there 🙃 I also used radicchio instead of Belgian endive as it's what was available at the farmers market and I think it worked well. I thought this needed something starchy on the plate so I riffed on the potato poppy seed cakes from a Diana Henry cookbook.

I'll remember that if I'm ever tempted to try it again!

The other day when I made Tenderheart's Carrot Peanut Satay Ramen, I made enough of the broth for another serving so I had round 2 this morning, just switched up the veg a bit.

I remember seeing that when I followed your link to the resort website and I was thinking that saying the sleeping area was cooled by "evening breeze" was a nice way of saying there's no AC, then I followed the link and saw that it's a real thing: Evening Breeze. Sounds cool 😎

California also allows sales of wine and hard liquor pretty much anywhere so I haven't run into salted Shaoxing wine but it could well be available. Now, when it comes to the serving of those products, and carrying them about, I believe California is more restrictive than Louisiana! US liquor laws are something else!

I ❤️ "too peopley" and run in to it quite a lot myself 🙃 Are the lobsters you get down there the Maine, big claw sort or more like the the spiny, big tail type like we get out here, seen below:

If you like the recipes you try, the whole Tenderheart book is pretty great. She uses a lot of interesting flavor combinations and most of the vegetables she features are readily available most of the year. The book is nicely laid out with a recipe on one side and a photo of it on the facing page. Hetty takes the photos herself as she's developing the recipes so there's no weirdly styled stuff. It's quite a big book, so an e-book format could be a good idea.

Carrot Peanut Satay Ramen from Tenderheart. Recipe available online at this link.

That looks and sounds excellent, @FrogPrincesse! Coincidentally, I have that book sitting next to me as I read your post. I'm getting black cod in my fish share today and was looking at the recipe for it with endive & hazelnuts as a way out of my miso-marinated black cod rut!

Yesterday's hash and a fat stalk of asparagus went into a little 2-egg frittata, dotted with ricotta.

I used RG Royal Coronas to make this Mustard-marinated beans with shaved asparagus and parsley from Abra Beren's book, Grist and it was a most excellent lunch, if I do say so myself 🙃. The just-cooked, warm beans are marinated in a Dijon mustard vinaigrette and served with thinly sliced asparagus tossed with olive oil and parsley. I put everything on a pile of arugula as I liked having both a tender and crunchy veg.

Pytt i panna from Roast Figs, Sugar Snow by Diana Henry, which she describes as a sort of "Swedish hash." Recipe available online here. Topped with a fried duck egg and apple & beetroot relish from the same book on the side. Good for a rainy morning. I did not peel the spuds and fried them in duck fat instead of butter & oil. I used breakfast sausage and country ham for the meat and since both are quite flavorful, I used half the amount specific in the recipe.

No, that’s what YOU need, seeking a degree of granularity that goes well beyond what EYB was set up for - as you say, you don’t want an index (what EYB is) but a full text search. I think most of users are accustomed to looking up recipes in conventional cookbook indexes and are happy to be able to do that in one go, across all of our books, magazines and websites at once. I adore EYB and use it every day but it's not the tool for the precision you need in searching for recipes. Have you looked at ckbk? It’s limited to the the books in their library (which have relatively little overlap with my own) and the search functions are rudimentary compared to EYB, but it does contain the full text of the recipes so you can certainly search on “boneless skinless” if that’s your key criteria for choosing a recipe. Of course, that will give you a different set of results as searching for “boned skinned” but that’s the price of a full text word search.

EYB is NOT for you!

Scrolling through the recipes, I don’t see any that specify skinless boneless chicken as an ingredient so I’m not sure you are doing anything wrong.

I haven’t used them as screwdrivers but they're quite handy for prying lids, etc and have protected a few of my table knives from turning up at the ends 🙄

It was 55°F in the house this morning but it looked like the sun would come out and warm things up so I didn't want to turn on the heat. Turned on the oven instead to make a quiche! Apple and beet salad with asparagus, mushroom and onion quiche