JoNorvelleWalker

No word yet from DHL on my shipment. When you say "small", which size is that?

Thanks!

Nice looking bread. I've not seen bread like that in a restaurant.

Also each version was proofed the same: fold after mixing, 45 minutes, fold, 45 more minutes, then division and shaping.

Apropos of nothing...I just shook half a teaspoon of salt out of my keyboard.

Correct. The dough from the MB recipe shapes more like silly putty than bread dough. I have tried the rescue technique without much success. Baguettes are cottony with many small holes. Scores seldom open properly. Boules are flat and dense. Not really flat but not round either. However the seams of boules usually open well. In truth sometimes the MB results are better but never really all that great. I've tried kg batches and 1.5 kg batches. I mix in a 5 quart KitchenAid commercial bowl if that matters.

Still too tired for real cooking. "Wild Mushroom Ragu" liberated and carried home from last weekend's catered event. I made up a batch of polenta as an accompaniment. Salted with ten year Parmigiano-Reggiano. Quite satisfactory.

I'm still a little unsure about my windowpane testing ability (even when looking at pictures). Proof I check with my index finger...sometimes with my little finger. A problem is the dough is often at proof or past proof right after shaping.

I'm always up to try debugging! (Though right now I am very tired and not up to typing much after almost an hour and a half in pouring rain followed by a full damp day at work.) However the two biggest differences were that the hydration was slightly less and the salt was added along with the yeast and poolish before autolysis.

I was just giving you a hard time because the burger didn't appear to be on the plate.

Bread: I do love bread. Served with Charcuterie, cheeses and the last of my Mountain Magic tomatoes which I am hording. No lack of wine. Oh, and olives too.

Good though.

Not Modernist French Lean Bread: I've been trying, I really have. My French Lean Bread from Modernist Bread at best is putty like. The scores don't open. Sometimes it tastes OK, sometimes it doesn't. More often than not the boules are flat. I am ashamed. Tonight I pitched half a Kilogram that was not worth eating. I've given Modernist Bread a year of my life. I went back to my ancient two thirds hydration recipe based on Raymond Calvel. Scores opened, boule was round. I'm not to the point of proclaiming the emperor has no clothes but I don't understand why the MB recipe doesn't work better for me. And did I mention that tonight's bread was rather tasty?

Here we get nice baby English peas from Guatemala. Other than that it's frozen.

Vegetarian burger?

Did you demand they be served in a dish?

My walk-in is on the balcony.

I've recommended the smallest TeamFar pan, the 8x10x1 inch one, for the CSO. I am still pleased with it, however for full disclosure I was reheating a slice of pizza just now and the pan warped. It went back to flat as soon as it cooled, and the slight warping didn't bother me, but it might matter for some folks. In contrast I've not noticed any warping with the heavier/taller TeamFar pans in the CSO.

I'm sure @kayb and the food were nice and all but I am taken by the sign. I have that pictured epicurean as my breadboard and I love it!

And I had to pick up a copy of Coconut. Ginger. Shrimp. Rum.: Caribbean Flavors for Every Season. Any book that extolls rum as a wonder drug is good enough for me.

I have a copy of Spain, and you must be looking at something other than what I'm seeing. After an explanation of the recipe the ingredients are laid out line by line in English and metric units. Then follow the numbered steps to prepare the recipe. Cookbooks can't get much clearer. One small complaint for a Kindle book, some of the techniques are referenced to a different page for directions. I dislike having to flip around through a Kindle book. However when these off page references are given there is a hyperlink to make navigation less painless. I also have Morocco by the same author. Highly recommended. Unlike with recipes in @Wolfert's wonderful books covering the same cuisines there does not seem to be stuff left out or left to imagination. Granted I have not made as wide an assortment of these recipes as I have from Wolfert, although a shrimp recipe has been a staple (or at least was back when I could get good shrimp). Edit: I checked the "look inside" preview and indeed the ingredients appear as @Toliver says. Thankfully my copy of the book is not formatted that way!

Leftover duck breast that I could chew, steam baked to within an inch of its life.

Why, yes...now that you mention it.

I've been craving duck for some while. Amazon Prime Now disappointed the other week when they could not deliver. (Though I did get a refund.) Now I am in possession of six pan seared duck breasts left over from an event last night. As served, the breast was sliced extremely thin on a bed of cabbage: "Braised Cabbage, Applewood Smoked Bacon and Sour Orange Gastrique". Unquote. To be precise. Typically I am not a fan of near raw fowl. But one has to taste. The cabbage was lovely. The duck looked and tasted like finest rare beef, however my dentation could not handle it. Tonight I plan to subdue a breast to doneness in the CSO and see what transpires. There is a potful of cabbage waiting, next to the potatoes. Don't mind if the duck is dry as long as I can chew it. I welcome thoughts for the five remaining breasts.

Perchance the first I have vouchedsafe my like upon a meatloaf.