Anna N

Click This is Breville’s entry into the electric pressure cooker market. I am usually a huge fan of anything this company markets but not this time. Aside from the price which presently is $277 Canadian, the non-removable lid is the first dealbreaker! Anyone own one? Anyone wish they did? Anyone understand why the reviewer concludes that there are more pros than cons in this review? Over to you.

What! You doubt that the law is an ass? I have no idea if it still the law in Ontario but I do know it was at one time. If you were in a restaurant that served liquor and for some reason wanted to change your table to another table you could not carry your alcoholic drink to the new table. You had to wait for a server to transfer your drink to the new table.

I have noticed the same thing although I have never understood the logic behind it.

I bounced out of bed this morning eager to make a loaf of oat bran and flaxseed bread having discovered an unopened box of oat bran as I continued the clean up after my relatively minor domestic mishap (think Puerto Rico, California et al.). OK so there’s a bit of an exaggeration here. I didn’t bounce out of bed. In fact I don’t bounce anywhere anymore intentionally. But I was eager to get started. Set up my mise, proofed my yeast and started to weigh my ingredients. But when I opened the box of bran I discovered its contents were moving of their own volition. Not requiring any extra protein and not being one to deal well with creepy crawlies I turned to Plan B. Again a bit of an exaggeration. There was at this point no Plan B. But having dumped a whole box of oat bran into the garbage bin I wasn’t really keen on throwing away the other ingredients that I carefully measured out. So I looked through my pantry and I turned up some large flake oats and threw them into the mix. I knew I was going to be on my own in terms of adjusting the flour and water ratio to accommodate the new ingredient. Everything seem to be going along just fine. I opted to use the Cuisinart steam oven and I don’t know whether it was to blame or not. I just don’t trust it with bread. Anyway my bread emerged looking rather sad and with very little lift. I seriously considered sending it in the same direction as the package of oat bran. But I thought, before I throw it out, I’ll at least taste it to see if it’s worth a repeat at another time. To my surprise it was quite pleasant and would’ve made a fine side to a bowl of soup. But being so low to the ground it’s not really suitable for sandwiches. So I made another loaf of the Harvest Grains bread. This time I used 75 g of mixed seeds consisting of sesame seeds, flax seeds, pumpkin seeds and sunflower seeds. I opened my big oven to prepare it to accept this new bread but couldn’t bear the thought of moving three cast-iron frying pans, two sheet pans, two cooling racks and a muffin tin. I know @Shelby understands completely. So this bread too went into the Cuisinart steam oven. I had to use foil of course else the crust would have burned but perhaps there is a little room for hope. This should make a decent sandwich.

Now we’re talking! Jealous. So jealous.

I am with you. Nothing I ever cooked in any of the slow cookers I ever had was worth eating.

Thank you. I am going to make it again probably tomorrow but I will mix up a different variety of seeds. I do enjoy pumpkin seeds but in this case I think there was too much of a good thing.

I believe this is the same recipe that @ElsieD used above. A friend brought me some white whole wheat from the US and definitely makes a huge difference. (I used my own seed mix.) But I also read somewhere, I can’t give credit because I’m not sure where, that 2 tablespoons of orange juice added to dough made with (non white?) whole wheat flour will cut the bitterness. Have not tried that yet.

Very strange. And with cooked egg.

Today gingersnaps. I had packaged most of them before I remembered to take a photo.

Salad in a jar? And?

Missed breakfast due to an early appointment and came home quite ravenous after a wild cab ride with a driver who, even with the help of a GPS, couldn’t find a well-known and well-established medical clinic. I really needed a stiff drink but thought it better to eat first. Now I’m ready for the drink.

Among other things Mark Bittman thinks libraries and post offices should be distribution centers for fresh food and that anyone under the age of 16 should be required to produce ID to purchase soda pop. Here.

Thank you. I need to be a little more courageous when I tip from the banneton into the screaming hot Dutch oven because once again it landed badly. I do know all about slings and about starting it in a cold Dutch oven but this is my preferred method and I will continue to try and get it right.

Just one. I always only make one. I simply divide the quantities by two. It’s just so easy to do when it’s mostly in metric.

Simple overnight white, no-knead bread from Ken Forkish.

So I logged on to Amazon.ca this rainy morning and discovered that I can now order Whole Foods pantry items. No fresh food yet but I’m holding out hope. Not that Amazon or Whole Foods would necessarily be my grocer of choice but I definitely need some competition to the present home delivery service that I have!

When I slow down and do all the right things in the right order……When I slow down and do all the right things in the right order……

And not being a Facebook member apparently I am still locked out.

@Chris Hennes Your French lean bread (with the accompanying sound effects) certainly looks very much like many no-knead loaves I have seen and made. Is there anything to distinguish “yours”? Never mind I see you have answered it in the other topic. Hate parallel topics.

Thanks. I thought the cross-section was larger than 4 x 4. Sometimes sizes are hard to judge. Does the book recommend particular pans for sandwich loaves?

What size pan was used for this loaf?

Not much cooking going to be done until I finish cleaning up from a small domestic catastrophe. Glad I had some leftover beef and was able to make a quick sandwich on a frozen multigrain bun. I dressed it with some mayo and some horseradish and enjoyed some Danish cucumber pickles on the side. Oh and to thumb my nose to the devil I enjoyed a glass of red wine.

You missed the point. It’s red. Much speedier than any other colour. Just ask @rotuts

Souffléd egg on a toasted English muffin.