What's for dinner?

Did you do a panzanella (spelling…?) too? I tried a root veg mash, but didn't turn out quite the way i wanted
No, but it looks awesome. For Thanksgiving I make my mom/grandmother's chicken and dressing.
I'll have to try the panzanella this year if I can fit it in the schedule.
 
My kids always whine for "something else" unless it's kraft dinner or pancakes so I threw a cheap can of black beans in a pot as decoy dinner to be refused so they would shut it and eat these sandwiches. Oh also they only mess with bologna right now.... sigh. I miss actually cooking.

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Not sure I could have sold the brown bread, lol
 
It's just my wife and I now so I don't cook as much anymore, but last night we had muffeletta paninis on Italian sub style rolls. I make my own olive mix from back in my scicillys pizza days. There is not so much bread and you would have on a regular muffeletta.
I do enjoy making chili which leads to chili dog Tuesday. I like my chili dogs with coleslaw and fresh japeleno peppers.
Today's football feast will be Johnsonville brats saurkraut and grilled corn on the cob Mexican style. Thw grilled corn fro the Milwaukee fair is my favorite but my wife likes Mexican street corn. Go Saints.
 
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Edit: please excuse the dirty oven mits in the background
I've been using the silicone ones, washable! You cannot feel the heat at all with them either.

I made sourdough with my new Hobart A200D yesterday; all aluminum and 70 pounds lighter than the 204 pound steel A200.

What a joy. I was using a 10 quart Hobart C100 with the old style dough hook which wobbles all over the place.

The spiral dough hook I got keeps it balanced, and works the dough SO much better. Clay like consistency after 45 minutes. Weigh, flatten, roll and pan. Boom. Easy as pie. Like a dream come true, and the dough didn't get heated up like the overworked C100.

I forgot to set the timer during oven preheat and they went over the sides, so had to trim the ears off before slicing. Makes great bread sticks, lol. I just cannot believe how much better the bread came out with the spiral hook. SO elastic and I'd swear it tastes better too. Better gluten development I guess.

The last picture shows the THREE bowls they sent me when I ordered just one. It came with a bowl but HEY I wanted SHINY NEW! I told the seller, they didn't care. "Enjoy the free two bowls." I think maybe it's a drop ship, 'cuz they didn't care at all.

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For breakfast, a grilled jack cheese sandwich with homemade sourdough on my NEW sunflower plates from Target! Egg white allergy, raises my BP, does terrible things to my digestion. Grilled Jack is amazingly close in texture and taste to egg, especially after adding a little Tabasco sauce.
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I got both of their sunflower styles. Total $70 w/tax/shipping for all eight plates. Heavy stoneware, good stuff....

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This is not my dinner tonight but from a restaurant I used to own, I know im breaking the rules here but I also know this site appreciates craftsmanship. I miss doing this kind of shit, but I figured why not share it with the pedal pcb fam.
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I think I finally mastered the biga:

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Edit: these turned out really good. Excellent crust, crumb and flavor! I just gotta improve my scoring technique.
score it on a hard bias with a super sharp knife after the second proof(bakers use a razor blade) They look awesome did you use steam in the beginning that will give you the crusty goodness!! Much respect for bakers!
 
My wife and I are trying for a kid. Not having a kid makes it easy for me to imagine saying that something else would be "nothing." Then again, that could lead to said theoretical kid looking like he/she belongs on a Unicef ad. Also, please tell me that's not hair on the plate.
lol nah man just scratched up plates, and your right it’s easy to say that but you do have to feed em. I feel the pain though I worked in kitchens my whole life and used to create memories for people with food. Now I gotta threaten a three year old with a round house kick over a brussel sprout. Best of luck to you and your wife
 
score it on a hard bias with a super sharp knife after the second proof(bakers use a razor blade) They look awesome did you use steam in the beginning that will give you the crusty goodness!! Much respect for bakers!
Lots of steam at the beginning yeah! That’s key to oven spring although I found that getting the dough just right is the most important thing. I use a lame for scoring. I think I have been scoring at too steep of an angle, should be almost parallel to the loaf. Also the lame feels not sharp enough (it gets stuck in the dough) and I don’t have a good way to sharpen it which is annoying.
 
Lots of steam at the beginning yeah! That’s key to oven spring although I found that getting the dough just right is the most important thing. I use a lame for scoring. I think I have been scoring at too steep of an angle, should be almost parallel to the loaf. Also the lame feels not sharp enough (it gets stuck in the dough) and I don’t have a good way to sharpen it which is annoying.
I use the same nylon scraper that I use to remove the dough from the bowl. Since I'm making the 16" long loaves, I start from the middle and go to the side, rotate the pan 180 and repeat. I stand perpendicular to the pan, instead of looking at it long-ways.

These are great tools because they're naturally slick! Tough as hell too.


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Snatched from the jaws of defeat…

Fettuccine and baked meatballs of beef, pork and lamb, bison. Couldn't find any anywhere. Butternut squash from the garden, and 'murican style garlic bread :P

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The pasta was al dente, as it should be. The meatballs took far longer than I've ever experienced. Gonna do convection bake next time. Mistimed it all, but in the end it came together.
 
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