Any Home Bakers Here?

[ronott1]

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Thai Coconut Curry Chicken tonight. One of my favorites, perfect for a cold, rainy night.

Nice looking curry!

 

[ronott1]

Started to make english muffins forgot to add the cornmeal to the flour was to late to fix so 3 loaves of sourdoughView attachment 1964263

I bet the bread smells great!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Just have to do the English muffins tomorrow

 

[N F C]

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Thai Coconut Curry Chicken tonight. One of my favorites, perfect for a cold, rainy night.

Yum!

 

[ValerieJ]

Apologies for chiming into this conversation late. Haven't checked my messages until just now. Here's my philosophy on it.

I believe that we are all stewards of the planet. As stewards of the planet, we have the ability to use whatever resources are around us for our needs, like meat and vegetables. however, as stewards, we also have the responsibility of maintaining those resources for future generations.

Here's a good example. You all know about the food chain. Lets assume that the deer eats the grass, and the bear eats the deer. If we humans overuse the deer, it would endanger everything else, like the bear. The grass will grow wild.

Yes, we have the right to use the deer as stewards of the planet, but we should not overuse them to the point where it actually endangering other species. We have the responsibility to maintain the planet for our survival, and the animals.

In fact, if one species grows too fast, while another grows very slow, causing an imbalance, sometimes it's necessary to eliminate some of the animals of a species for the benefit of the entire ecosystem.

There's nothing wrong with being vegetarian, I'm not vegetarian, obviously from my hunting pictures.

To sum it up, we are the stewards of the planet Earth, who have great power to use the Earth for our needs, but also have the great responsibility to maintain the Earth.

Jared

Well said!!! Have you all seen this video?

 

[ValerieJ]

Started to make english muffins forgot to add the cornmeal to the flour was to late to fix so 3 loaves of sourdoughView attachment 1964263

they are lovely!!!

 

[jnicholes]

Well said!!! Have you all seen this video?

Can't say that I have seen that. I'll take a look at it tomorrow. I'm very exhausted, and getting ready to go to bed.

 

[pennyJo1960]

they are lovely!!!

thanks

 

[jnicholes]

Anybody got a good quiche recipe? Preferably one with cheese.

 

[jnicholes]

Bad weather cleared up so here you go with the recipe!

PIZZA DOUGH
3 1/2 - 4 Cups bread flour
1 tsp sugar
2 1/4 tsp of instant dry yeast (1 package)
2 tsp kosher salt
1 1/2 Cups water (no hotter than 110 degrees)
2 Tab olive oil (plus bit extra for greasing bowl)

Combine flour, sugar, yeast & salt in mixer bowl & combine.
With mixer running, add water & 2 Tab olive oil. Beat until dough forms a ball.
Scrape dough onto lightly floured surface & gently knead into smooth, firm ball.
Oil large bowl, add dough & cover.
Put in warm place to rise until double (approx. 1 hour)
Turn dough onto lightly floured surface & divide into 2 equal pieces. Cover & let rest 10 minutes.

At that point, you can put 1 piece of dough into a floured freezer baggie for later and use 1 right away for a large thin crust dough.
To make our pizzas, we have the oven pre-heating to 450 degrees while we stretch the dough onto a stone. Pile on sauce, cheese, meat and veggies (DH insists that order!).
When the oven is at temp, we put it in and bake about 25 minutes. YUM!
When you want to use the frozen dough, get it out of the freezer several hours early, put on counter & thaw. The dough will slowly rise as it warms, so if your bag is getting too full, slightly open it.

Went through the recipe index and found this. I'm going to try making it.