Making Memories in Manitoulin – at it again!

[Anna N]

What do you do with the mustard? Spread it on the puff pastry to mix it in with the sausage meat?

When I make sausage rolls, I just use ground pork, minced shallots, and penzey's breakfast sausage seasoning. Sometimes I add cubes of cheese or if I'm feeling a little more healthful, asparagus or red pepper.

But looking at your mise, I feel I might be missing something!

Yes, I spread the mustard on the pastry before adding the sausage mixture. This was the only mustard available here but a plain Dijon would have been better. I don't think you are missing anything. Each person likely makes their own filling to their own taste.

[Kerry Beal]

For rounds this morning Oat and Maple Syrup Scones from the Smitten Kitten site. I added a fair bit more moisture than called for. I used yogurt in place of the 1/4 cup milk and probably added another 1/3 cup of milk. My dough was moist in spite of instructions not to make it so. Very tender scones.

I'm working at the clinic in Aundeck Omni Kaning (the community formerly known as Sucker Creek) today. The sausage rolls will be heading out there with me.

[Beth Wilson]

Lucky clinic! They were making me crave sausage rolls. My mom called them Pigs in a blanket....figured it was an English thing since her parents were English Folk :-)

[MelissaH]

I'm envious of your ability to get butter puff pastry in the supermarket. Here, this time of the year, no such luck.

[Anna N]

I enjoyed one of Kerry's scones for breakfast so no breakfast photo.

Let's do something a little different. Here's two mise-en-place photos to contemplate for a few hours:

[Anna N]

A few more photos:

[Kerry Beal]

Sam Ross's Too Soon. It's busy growing on Anna.

[Anna N]

Was hoping for a few guesses especially about the bread! Here it is, lachha paratha served alongside Ethiopian beef, spinach and peanut stew. The bread was intriguing both to make and to eat. We will be serving it at the Niagara Eggfest on August 11th.

Today I hope to tackle scallion pancakes, peach and bourbon sorbet and Ann T's summer torte using up the last of the (now frozen) red currants.

[curls]

Would you mind sharing your recipe for peach & bourbon sorbet? Sounds like a great flavor combination.

[curls]

How many dishes are you planning to make at the Eggfest? Do you coordinate with the other participants or is it just a gigantic "potluck" that just works out well in the end?

[dcarch]

Anna and Kerry, I could be wrong. In reading thru this thread, I seem to think that you guys really like cooking, eating and drinking. LOL!

Thanks a million for this fantastic, educational and delicious thread so far. I really appreciate it.

dcarch

[Jaymes]

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Look what my downstairs neighbour just dropped off!

They look terrific. And that's a pretty wonderful neighbor.

But something tells me that she gets better than she gives.

If you know what I mean....

[Lindsey]

Oh how I love your trip, thank you from a drooling fool in Scotland!

[Anna N]

Would you mind sharing your recipe for peach & bourbon sorbet? Sounds like a great flavor combination.

Here you go

http://www.thekitchn.com/recipe-bourbon-peach-sorbet-no-ice-cream-maker-necessary-recipes-from-the-kitchn-192547

This will be my first attempt and I am cheating by using frozen peaches. The bourbon, however, will be "fresh",

[Anna N]

So here's a walk through the prep of the scallion pancakes:

The scallion greens chopped and given an opportunity to dry out a little

The dough made in the Thermomix (how lazy can I get?)

Adding the scallion greens to the oiled dough

The pancake cooking

See the laminations?

And Ann T's wonderfully simple summer torte made with red currents. I also prepped tonight's dinner of chicken thighs with caramelized shallots (another Eggfest experiment. Photo later) and made the base for a peach and bourbon sorbet which is chilling in the freezer.

[Kerry Beal]

How many dishes are you planning to make at the Eggfest? Do you coordinate with the other participants or is it just a gigantic "potluck" that just works out well in the end?

Everyone just makes what they make - folks walk around eating what they eat. Lineups are common.

We'll probably make around 8 things. We have the use of two Eggs.

[Kerry Beal]

Pioneer Woman Cheddar muffins for my visit to the nursing home today.

[curls]

Would you mind sharing your recipe for peach & bourbon sorbet? Sounds like a great flavor combination.

Here you go

http://www.thekitchn.com/recipe-bourbon-peach-sorbet-no-ice-cream-maker-necessary-recipes-from-the-kitchn-192547

This will be my first attempt and I am cheating by using frozen peaches. The bourbon, however, will be "fresh",

Thank you for the recipe. Think I'll be trying this soon with "aged" bourbon and fresh peaches.

[Kerry Beal]

Back to basics - The Maximilian Affair tonight.

Anna put together one 'scallion' pancake using kimchi in place of the scallions - we all had some. Very yummy.

[Kerry Beal]

The perfect scallion pancake.

Bone marrow - still not perfect - the challenge continues.

Anna's ass when she forgets her apron!

[Kerry Beal]

Did a little airbrushing on Sunday working on a chocolate for an upcoming wedding.

Different splatter colours with 3 different background purples. Filling is a soft dark and milk ganache with fiore di sicilia.

A mold I really liked the look of when I saw it in a shop in DC.

Filling in these is a flowing caramel.

[ElsieD]

Beautiful chocolates.

[Kerry Beal]

Tonight I'm playing with Troll Cream. This is 70 grams of eggwhite into which I have drizzled about 150 ml of the elderflower cordial I made, along with some commercial grenadine for colour.

This is the large mixmaster bowl so you can see how much volume you get.

Then I nuked it a bit at a time until it firmed up to make vauquelin.

I'm experimenting with the leftovers to see if it will dehydrate in the oven into meringue.

[Kerry Beal]

Some not so beautiful chocolates - playing with a two piece mold - the downside to this one is it can't be scraped and without a shaker table it can't be dumped very easily either. More than anything though I wanted to see how it painted - so we'll see that by tomorrow.

[maydd]

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Some not so beautiful chocolates - playing with a two piece mold - the downside to this one is it can't be scraped and without a shaker table it can't be dumped very easily either. More than anything though I wanted to see how it painted - so we'll see that by tomorrow.

Strap it to the washing machine on spin cycle

Those chocolates look almost (hear me now, ALMOST) too beautiful to eat...