Laurie

On 2/26/2021 at 1:23 AM, tekobo said:

I like the fact that the starting point for a taco meal is a table that looks like this:

Your mise is gorgeous!

26 minutes ago, tekobo said:

Flour tortillas can be very good.  I roll them with a rolling pin and am trying different variations.  The most recent one included chicken fat from a roast chicken and tasted finger lickin' good. 

When my daughter was growing up, we made flour tortillas from home-ground flour multiple times a week for bean and cheese burritos. She was a rather conservative eater, so we stuck with palm shortening or olive oil, but the chicken fat sounds yummy! 

We haven't gotten to serve her the homemade corn tortillas yet, after the pandemic, I hope.

It could. For truly sweet yeast doughs (like cinnamon rolls), I use Saf-Gold, which is specially formulated. But the recipe above has a good load of yeast for the amount of flour. To be on the safe side, I'd proof the yeast separately in warm water before adding it, this seems to give better results.

One of the side benefits of the log is that it can become a memory book - we not only have the notes about the paella we made for Eric (or brisket with the neighbors, or or or), we remember sitting around the table, Eric trying the sky chair, the good times of the evening.

What a cutie! Our neighbor's 14 week old golden retriever puppy joined us for Sunday's lamb roast, Honey had a lot of fun with her.

Re: Meltique Beef the world's finest larded meat?

I am with you on the marinade. When we first got the POSK, Dave experimented with rubs and marinades and injections. We now almost always use salt and pepper only, or salt and pepper and dried chiles, on the best meat we can find.

Re: The "Thermapen" of kitchen digital scales?

Thanks for the suggestions! We ordered the My Weigh Uber Aluminum linked in Dave's post and it is in the box to go back - the display is off center and on/off function is too light (it came on when I touched something else in the cupboard where the scale lives).

It didn't help that Honey barked every time it came on.

Re: Lost and Found

Welcome back!