Any Home Bakers Here?

[COChix]

Those are nice looking calzones!

Thanks, it made for a really easy meal, we had lots of work that week and we were able to accomplish it all without have to stop a lot for food breaks. These are great to just reheat.

yes, they look delicious....drool.  Maybe I'll have to have a second course, after my pumpkin soup....

(bunch of enablers on this thread )

Lol, gosh guess I am home now.

Those look great.  Really dumb question - never bought fresh mozzarella cheese - does it offer more flavor than then the shredded or packaged slices?

I feel like it does have more flavor as it is less processed comparatively to shredded mozzarella. Plus it is fresh, the shredded mozzarella has additives to help preserve all those precious shreds.

That's not a "dumb question" at all @sunflour
! I've used it a little bit (not lately) and from what I recall, it's creamier. I've read it's pretty easy to make mozzarella at home but I haven't tried it (yet). That's on my list of projects to try

It is also creamier and just melts super well in the recipes. I have a hard time using shredded mozzarella if I have a choice. It just makes it that much better IMO.

I have also made kraut burgers which is another variation on something like a calzone, hot pocket, Stromboli, etc.

 

[COChix]

FOOD IS LOVE ​

One of my favorite things to say....

 

[theuglyduckling]

so i have been waiting to ask questions about making bread. i would have done it when everyone was making bread but my computer broke and i wasnt able to ask anything. i just got a new one yesterday. so im sorry if this is out of the blue. i made bread on tuesday but it came out so dense. does anyone know what i did wrong? i looked up and searched yesterday and some said that i didnt knead the dough enough. also when i add sugar i cant really taste the sweetness it sort of just taste bland. does anyone know of a way to get the sweet flavor to come out? also when you let the dough rise do you need to punch it so the rise goes down and then let it sit again to rise and then punch it again? and lastly is crisco considered a wet ingredient or dry? does it do anything to the dough if you dont put wet in first and then dry ingerdients? (ahh sorry im such a noob to this all)


so i was also looking at everything i missed and your guys food looks so yummy. those cinnamin rolls look so delicous i need to try those next. they looked so gooie and sweet

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that heart shaped cake was delicous to look at. i bet it tasted so good too.
those calzones also looked so good. my fiance has been begging me to find a recipe to make him.

 

[ronott1]

so i have been waiting to ask questions about making bread. i would have done it when everyone was making bread but my computer broke and i wasnt able to ask anything. i just got a new one yesterday. so im sorry if this is out of the blue. i made bread on tuesday but it came out so dense. does anyone know what i did wrong? i looked up and searched yesterday and some said that i didnt knead the dough enough. also when i add sugar i cant really taste the sweetness it sort of just taste bland. does anyone know of a way to get the sweet flavor to come out? also when you let the dough rise do you need to punch it so the rise goes down and then let it sit again to rise and then punch it again? and lastly is crisco considered a wet ingredient or dry? does it do anything to the dough if you dont put wet in first and then dry ingerdients? (ahh sorry im such a noob to this all)


so i was also looking at everything i missed and your guys food looks so yummy. those cinnamin rolls look so delicous i need to try those next. they looked so gooie and sweet

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that heart shaped cake was delicous to look at. i bet it tasted so good too.
those calzones also looked so good. my fiance has been begging me to find a recipe to make him.

For bread to rise, it needs yeast, sugar and contrary to what you read, salt. Salt is necessary and will regulate the yeast but not kill it.

So, make sure the yeast is good. Get 1\2 cup of 105F water, sprinkle the yeast over the top and let it moisten for 5 min. Stir that into the liquid ingredients with the sugar, salt and oil that is at least luke warm--85 to 90 degrees. It should bubble in about 15 minutes.

After that, add flour and begin kneading the bread. Once the bread is not sticky, kneed for about 7 minutes. The kneeding develops gluten that is the last thing needed for the bread to rise. Bread flour has more gluten so it will help the bread to rise. Bleach cake flour has the least gluten so it makes very flat bread. I use Organic un bleached All Purpose flour.

You do not need much sugar. I use about 1\3 of a cup for three loaves.

You do not need to punch down dough. The purpose is to move the yeast around in the dough--I do this when I shape the loaves.

I am making bread today--half of the flour is from spelt that I ground this morning. I used raw sugar for the sweetener.

My bread recipe is in the index. It has instructions for scaling it down to 1 or 2 loaves too.

 

[sunflour]

You do not need to punch down dough. The purpose is to move the yeast around in the dough--I do this when I shape the loaves.

Another lesson, thanks for the info.

I always wondered why even rolls recipes tell us to punch it down. Never made any sense to me why that step was needed.

 

[sunflour]

Got a vintage Chicken Cake Mold in the mail today:



Anyone have experience using these?

Found recipes on 2 sites with recipes for this exact one. The other side says Pound Cake Recipes Only. Planning to try those first, but wonder what else I could try?

 

[Jesusfreak101]

That mold is so cute sunflour, i have no experiance with those. Ron thanks again for the starter i got it yesterday i havent had a chance to reactivate it yet hopefully i get to tomorrow or monday lol. I plan on baking some banana muffins and blueberry muffins we eat them alot. I also need to bake some bread, bisquits, pizza dough and some pie crust(for chicken pot pie) i going to stock up my freezer with as mean easy meals as i can. I hoping it help me get some much needed sleep. I started seeing things so sleep is needed.

 

[ronott1]

That mold is so cute sunflour, i have no experiance with those. Ron thanks again for the starter i got it yesterday i havent had a chance to reactivate it yet hopefully i get to tomorrow or monday lol. I plan on baking some banana muffins and blueberry muffins we eat them alot. I also need to bake some bread, bisquits, pizza dough and some pie crust(for chicken pot pie) i going to stock up my freezer with as mean easy meals as i can. I hoping it help me get some much needed sleep. I started seeing things so sleep is needed.

That is great!

I need to get the other one out soon too.

 

[Jesusfreak101]

Can yall think of any other easy meals that is quick to reheat? Oh and hopefully three year old approved. She wont eat the lasagna or chicken pot pie or spaghetti now days she a pain. Its ok it
F she wont eat it i just make her fruit plate like normal.

 

[User395221]

Oh and hopefully three year old approved.

Macaroni cheese? Swedish meatballs? porcupines? rice pudding?