Random foodly thoughts (mostly)
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magidBeet blood droplets suspended in olive oil are fascinating to watch when you tip the pan.
I added half rye flour/half white flour dumplings to a basic chicken soup. They're... interesting. Actually, once I didn't expect the wrong texture, pretty good. They've got a nuttier taste, too. I'm running low on white flour, and have been debating whether or not there's time to use up another 50-lb bag before Passover. Which leads to more experiments with the rye flour Treacle_Well passed on to me in the mean time.
On the small kitchen implement front: Trader Joe's had refillable pepper grinders! Hooray!
I managed to kill my vegetable peeler this morning (it's been limping along for ages), so that's next for replacement, hopefully this afternoon.
There was such beautiful ginger at Russo's last week that I had to buy some. The skin is thin and peels off easily, which lead me to boiling bits of it in sugar syrup this morning, as if making crystallized ginger in ginger syrup. The plan is to boil it a couple more times, then add diced plums, for a batch of plum-ginger jammish stuff. I'm still debating leaving the bits of actual ginger in or not.
Also at Russo's, I found autumn poem, though labeled with an Asian name I've forgotten.
Since last week I've been bitten by an early morning straightening bug. Who knew there was floor under there? I hope it continues for a while; there's so much left to do.
I added half rye flour/half white flour dumplings to a basic chicken soup. They're... interesting. Actually, once I didn't expect the wrong texture, pretty good. They've got a nuttier taste, too. I'm running low on white flour, and have been debating whether or not there's time to use up another 50-lb bag before Passover. Which leads to more experiments with the rye flour Treacle_Well passed on to me in the mean time.
On the small kitchen implement front: Trader Joe's had refillable pepper grinders! Hooray!
I managed to kill my vegetable peeler this morning (it's been limping along for ages), so that's next for replacement, hopefully this afternoon.
There was such beautiful ginger at Russo's last week that I had to buy some. The skin is thin and peels off easily, which lead me to boiling bits of it in sugar syrup this morning, as if making crystallized ginger in ginger syrup. The plan is to boil it a couple more times, then add diced plums, for a batch of plum-ginger jammish stuff. I'm still debating leaving the bits of actual ginger in or not.
Also at Russo's, I found autumn poem, though labeled with an Asian name I've forgotten.
Since last week I've been bitten by an early morning straightening bug. Who knew there was floor under there? I hope it continues for a while; there's so much left to do.
Re: flour
Date: 2004-02-10 12:32 pm (UTC)Re: flour
Date: 2004-02-10 12:44 pm (UTC)(And I'll admit I'm unlikely to get kitniot flours, either, which is what I think most of the other kinds are.)
Re: flour
Date: 2004-02-10 01:16 pm (UTC)Re: flour
Date: 2004-02-10 01:24 pm (UTC)