Live Qualitarian: Eat Well
Tastings are posts about the ideas or concepts of what we decided to cook, why, how we did it, and how it turned out.
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
A la grain-berry crust: My favorite restaurant in Omaha for pizza is LaCasa – a family business more than 65 years old. They make a hamburger pizza that I order every time I visit, but order nowhere else. Their ground beef is spicy, not lumpy and just enough umami to
Brothers Bagel via Video Phone Call Steuart is making Paul Hollywood’s Bagels and Steuart’s brother is making Mark Bittman’s recipe. We were all happy with the taste and the chewiness of the outside texture. Andrew wished his had puffed up a little more and was looking to order some fast-acting
A Sharp Yeasty Cracker: Weighed 500 grams of organic white flour, worked in 4 Tablespoons of butter by hand, and when the mixture’s pieces were the size of peas. I added 4.5 ounces of cheese (1/3 cheddar and 2/3 emmanthaller), 6 grams of coarse pepper (see process story about pepper
Pretzels and Beer Happy Hour in Quarantine Pretzels for our treat at the Zoom Happy Hour with friends this snowy Friday night, and we knew we would need a beer to go with them. We turned to our beer making neighbor, Andrew, who left some malt extract on our porch
Making crackers is easy but getting them to be uniform in thickness, and therefore crispiness, is the most difficult part, and the process might seem like a hassle, like baking cookies, to keep track of the time as you bake several sheets and get them all done just right. Using
Radishes on butter spread on a warm baguette First make the baguettes. This will take some thinking ahead. We are not people who necessarily write out our menus for a week in advance. We only do this when going to the store is a hassle. For years we lived in
New Red Enchiladas 2 Corn Tortillas (per person) 45 grams of mild cheese (emmenthaler, provolone, cheddar or a mixture) 1/2 small onion leftover squash, skirt steak For the sauce, mix: 2 T chili powder 1 T tomato paste (optional) 1 cup water Stacked enchilada, two each in our personal size
A Croque Monseuir is a famous French sandwich made of ham and cheese grilled to wonderful meltedness. Add an egg on top and its so great it’s called a Madame, something we just ate at a wonderful French breakfast place in Seattle – Cafe Presse, 1117 12th Ave, Seattle, WA