Live Qualitarian: Eat Well
– No Molasses — but just as Ginger A Small Ginger Cake This cake is intense, and I want to make it small — for our little family. So all I need is 2.5 cups total batter. Choose a large enough beaker for an immersion blender that will hold at
Not From a Sack of Tortillas Steuart made a coarse cornmeal, flour and water mixture that turned into something like a corn tortilla you could buy in the grocery store. His tortillas that he used as a base for vegetables and as a nice lice were: mostly corn, round, thin
In A Nordicware Pan I want a moist cake that will come out of my beautiful Nordicware cake pan. I trust David Leibovitz for desserts although I always cut his sugar measurement in half. His Double Chocolate Cake sounds great but I’m on my last block of Callebaut chocolate. I
Making a fragrant staple I used 1/2 cup of dried Pakistani rose petals purchased from Savory Spice Shop because I haven’t loved them in cooked dishes like the curries I’ve tried, where they were a last minute garnish. The dried petals became a brilliant rose red when put in 1
Steam, bake and shape trials The Pork Steamed Buns turned out okay. The project convinced us that there was a place for steamed bread in our repertoire, but not exactly the way we made them two weeks ago. Steuart had left over dough in the freezer. Thawing that and making
Bao Buns Bremner Style Sunday, May 17, 2020 What’s wonderful about WonderBread? I asked myself as we tried to make bread with small consistent air holes from a sweet dough. The steamed buns Steuart made this week used a dough that reminded me of Wonderbread, and I tried to
When we go out and stop into a bar or restaurant to get a quick bite to eat, we always order French Fries because we don’t have a fryer and can’t make them at home. The Coronavirus has been saving us from our bad habit of eating French Fries since
Mothers’ Day Focaccia Bread with the Bremner Brothers. Steuart likes dough to prove overnight but was too busy last night watching the movie Contagion to make the dough. He started it a 8 this morning, instead. We have tens of pounds of white flour but not much whole wheat. The
Bremner Brothers Bake French Standard: Sunday, May 3, 2020 – via Skype, Steuart and his brothers will each bake a French dozen of the classic croissant. May 1 – Steuart made the dough, the butter rectangle for layering and left to chill overnight in the fridge. May 2 – He
The Brothers take on English Muffins: After last week’s Skype bagel-making Sunday, Steuart and his brother decided to try English Muffins. Both of them made the dough last night and let it prove overnight. I made Paul’s recipe mixing it up at 10:15 this morning, by 1 p.m. they were