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Re: What are you cooking today?
« Reply #31965 on: May 16, 2018, 01:04:39 pm »
Well had to start on a cook up today . Made the crackled Almond biscuits and mandarin polenta biscuits , both very nice . Then some pumpkin soup with ristoni pasta . 

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Re: What are you cooking today?
« Reply #31966 on: May 16, 2018, 01:59:50 pm »
Cookie, that looks very tasty.  If you didn’t even have 1 mouthful to try it yourself you have great willpower.

You obviously have some good eaters in your place with all the baking you do Katie.
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Re: What are you cooking today?
« Reply #31967 on: May 16, 2018, 02:18:42 pm »
Carrot , nut and fruit balls.  Started SD loaf.
Stir fry veggies with chicken.
Chicken stock.

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« Reply #31968 on: May 16, 2018, 04:06:08 pm »
I bet the you will have a fun time teaching the SD class Chookie.
Very usual Fruit Loaf Cookie. Well done you making it.
Great cooking KAtie.
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Re: What are you cooking today?
« Reply #31969 on: May 17, 2018, 12:23:33 am »
Yesterday I made some shortbread and a tea cake to take to a friends house for afternoon tea.
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Re: What are you cooking today?
« Reply #31970 on: May 17, 2018, 12:25:18 am »
Have to do another baking cooking day . All for the weekend as I am going on a girls weeken trip away . Not good timing with planting started . so better go and create more food now . Told DH to only have the tomato soup , that is his for the rest of the week.

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Re: What are you cooking today?
« Reply #31971 on: May 17, 2018, 04:57:46 am »
Nearly done made Adam Laws out if The Age , Chocolate Banana and coconut bread . Meatballs in tomato sauce ( on cookidoo) and the Quirky Joes Lemon Coconut chicken soup . Just casserole to make tonight and I'm done . Family will survive if they cook there own veggies!

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« Reply #31972 on: May 17, 2018, 05:54:36 am »
This is the fruit loaf I was having problems with. It’s apparently Hungarian and is called an Almond and Cranberry Beigl. DD and DH tell me it is very nice.
That looks really interesting, Cookie.  Did you follow a recipe or use your baking instincts to make it?
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Re: What are you cooking today?
« Reply #31973 on: May 17, 2018, 08:33:14 am »
You’ve certainly earned your weekend away Katie, I bet you enjoy it.
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Re: What are you cooking today?
« Reply #31974 on: May 17, 2018, 10:15:30 am »
SD loaf.  The cold weather, even though House is warm, took ages to rise.
14 hours over night , first rise.
6 hours 2 nd rise.

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Re: What are you cooking today?
« Reply #31975 on: May 17, 2018, 10:40:33 am »
Marina I saw the recipe in the Women’s Weekly Food magazine. I ‘thermomixed’ it. I had trouble with the dough as I felt it was too dry, so I added a bit of milk to it and finally things turned out well.
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Re: What are you cooking today?
« Reply #31976 on: May 17, 2018, 11:43:46 pm »
K.Atie, where are you going?
Chow Mein for dinner.  Starting an olive SD loaf for DD. More Chicken soup.

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Re: What are you cooking today?
« Reply #31977 on: May 18, 2018, 02:56:22 am »
Making a sausage casserole for dinner.

KAtie, enjoy your weekend away.
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Re: What are you cooking today?
« Reply #31978 on: May 18, 2018, 03:14:08 am »
I don’t have the luxury of a steam oven and know the benefits of steam in developing a good crust.  I wrecked my previous oven by placing a dish of water in bottom of the oven, but it did produce a good crust.
I can get a good crust by baking in a cast iron pot but sometimes I want to bake bread in a tin without a lid.
I recently read that if you soak Lava rock ( scoria ) and then place it in the bottom of the oven, it will slowly release steam.
I will let you know how it goes.

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Re: What are you cooking today?
« Reply #31979 on: May 18, 2018, 03:15:16 am »
I don’t have the luxury of a steam oven and know the benefits of steam in developing a good crust.  I wrecked my previous oven by placing a dish of water in bottom of the oven, but it did produce a good crust.
I can get a good crust by baking in a cast iron pot but sometimes I want to bake bread in a tin without a lid.
I recently read that if you soak Lava rock ( scoria ) and then place it in the bottom of the oven, it will slowly release steam.
I will let you know how it goes.




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