Manitoulin. If I can make it there…

[Anna N]

Anna, that bread looks just amazing.

Thank you. This was an experiment that worked! I wish you could hear that bread "sing" as it comes out of the oven!

[Anna N]

Yes that's right... We are the French and I'm panning... Lol... Those damn French so arrogant and full of themselves...

But even cowboys can be tamed. I can't imagine making that many of anything! Bet you are glad Bastille Day comes but once a year!

[Kerry Beal]

 

 

Starchy older peas can be saved! Thank you Judy Rodgers.

Edited July 14, 2015 by Kerry Beal (log)

[Alleguede]

I see real bread... Finally Anna s at work?

Bread sing? Is it French...

My balls are shinny... Really really shinny....

Talking about the panning of course....

[Smithy]

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Thank you. This was an experiment that worked! I wish you could hear that bread "sing" as it comes out of the oven!

Very impressive crust and crumb, both! Was this the no-knead bread in the heavy stainless to which you referred on the previous page? Is this a Forkish, Lahey, or Anna N (or all of the above) approach?

[Anna N]

Very impressive crust and crumb, both! Was this the no-knead bread in the heavy stainless to which you referred on the previous page? Is this a Forkish, Lahey, or Anna N (or all of the above) approach?

It was the Forkish bread (which I now make in my sleep!) done in the stainless steel. Being so much lighter than the cast iron Dutch oven it proved less challenging to handle.

[Anna N]

Good morning. Well I think I can be fairly confident in claiming the title Lunch Lady as once again Kerry will be bringing her student home for some lunch.

To amuse you this is my set up for pressing some salted cucumbers for a quick pickle.

And these are less than stellar grape tomatoes that I'm going to roast (in the Cuisinart steam oven) with garlic oil, salt and some herbes de Provence.

My plan is a few various crostini.

[kayb]

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Made the dough for these last night - baked off this morning.  Missing Map Cheese Wafers from the Nancy Drew Cookbook. Had them first at a neighbours home - had to find the recipe and try them.  

 

They would benefit from some pepper and perhaps pimenton or chipoltle powder.   

Had to chase that link and save that recipe. That looks like a keeper. 

[Anna N]

Lunch. Crostini with egg salad, roasted tomatoes and Parmesan, and egg salad.

[Kerry Beal]

And pate with pickled cucs and beets!

[Anna N]

And pate with pickled cucs and beets!

Thank you. I got totally sidetracked when my dictation interpreted "crostini" as "crusty knees".

[Kerry Beal]

 

Butterscotch squares for work today.

[Kerry Beal]

 

Nacho's with guacamole made from two tiny avocados.

 

 

[Shelby]

Crusty knees 

 

Oh, you brought back a fun memory.   When I was a kid my Grammy would make nachos for dinner--the guac would have been an excellent addition, but that was never added.  But the nachos were such a treat.  I remember one epic night that we had several servings of nachos while I watched Gone With The Wind for the first time 

[Anna N]

While Kerry munched on nachos I topped up my oxalic acid reserves. A slice of bread browned in garlic oil, topped with some sauteed beet greens and a fried egg.

[rotuts]

may I ask for the Butterscotch squares Rx ?

 

they look very good, even if still in the pan.

[Kerry Beal]

Butterscotch Squares Ingredients

 

• 1 cup brown sugar
• ½ cup butter
• 1 egg
• 1 cup flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp salt
• 2 tsp vanilla
• ½ cup pecans

 

Method

 

Melt butter, add sugar and rest of ingredients. 8X8 inch pan. 325 (140 centigrade) for 15 minutes then leave in turned off oven for 20 minutes.

[JoNorvelleWalker]

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While Kerry munched on nachos I topped up my oxalic acid reserves. A slice of bread browned in garlic oil, topped with some sauteed beet greens and a fried egg.

 

Anna, your krebs cycle will thank you.  Or not, as the case may be.  I had been wondering what I should do for dinner and now I think I shall go make an omelet.  That egg of yours sure looks lovely.  Unfortunately here there is no bread left and it is a bit late to go a baking.  Particularly, perhaps, after a couple of my industrial strength mai tais.

 

Oh wait!  I found the last third of a baguette!  Though it is two nights old.  And some Parmesan I grated yesterday!  I am not proud.

[MelissaH]

Butterscotch Squares Ingredients

 

• 1 cup brown sugar
• ½ cup butter
• 1 egg
• 1 cup flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp salt
• 2 tsp vanilla
• ½ cup pecans

 

Method

 

Melt butter, add sugar and rest of ingredients. 8X8 inch pan. 325 (140 centigrade) for 15 minutes then leave in turned off oven for 20 minutes.

 

Kerry, is this the same recipe you've posted previously as Blondies? Did they decide they'd had enough of being blond and needed a rebranding?

[Kerry Beal]

Same one - I've always called it Butterscotch Squares (actually Marg Manchee's Butterscotch Squares cause she's the friend of my moms who was the source of the recipe).  They got rebranded Blondies somewhere along the line on eG when someone wanted the recipe and we discussed it on a thread at length I think.  

[Smithy]

That discussion started about a year ago: Blondies. Are they nice?

[Kerry Beal]

Lisabeth from Ultimately Chocolate was over to our place today for some dipping advice. 

 

 

So of course we had to have lunch - there is still some nice charcuterie tucked away and of course some wonderful cheeses (thanks Chocolot!).

 

 

Giant marshmallow on a stick with face paint!

 

 

Some experiments in using chocolate stored in the EZtemper a la Joseph Schmidt.

 

 

Christmas in July!

 

 

[weinoo]

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Lunch. Crostini with egg salad, roasted tomatoes and Parmesan, and egg salad.

Are there 3 of you for lunch (including the student) or only 2?

 

If 3, how do you decide who gets which extra crostini? 

[Anna N]

Are there 3 of you for lunch (including the student) or only 2?

 

If 3, how do you decide who gets which extra crostini?

There were 3 of us and we somehow managed to share without a battle.

[weinoo]

You're better women than me!