Justin & Meredith Winokur's Kitchen Cooking Notebook
Sitemap ·
Our Recipe Book ·
Steven's Recipe Book ·
Ann's Recipe Book ·
Meal Ideas ·
Copied Recipes
Random ·
Random Links
Home > 69
KitchenKatalog: Blog 69
Sunday, February 21, 2021, 06:24 PM
I made American Sandwich Bread [Bread Illustrated by America's Test Kitchen] for the week. I followed the recipe basically exactly. I was trying to speed it along a bit so I did a "proofing box" with the oven and boiling water. I may have over proofed it a bit as you can see in the pictures.
The final result was very tasty and had a good structure. Not as dense as their pictures but not too far off (though mine came out a lot taller but less brown). When I took the temperature, it was 199.9°F which should be about right for Albuquerque, though that could explain the lack of browning.
It did have a very noticeable swirl from how I rolled it up. Not sure how that happened or how to stop it.
Update: I asked my dad what he think caused it and it makes sense. I need to be more careful:
It looks to me like the dough had dried out a bit and you rolled that dried part into the body of the loaf when you were rolling the whole thing. Otherwise your texture looks really nice. You have to make sure you either keep it in an airtight container or that you keep it well oiled
Saturday, February 20, 2021, 07:56 PM
Meredith made the Spaghetti Squash Taco Bake. Unlike last time, Meredith did the whole spaghetti squash. She also skipped the jalapeños, though we probably didn't have to since Caroline wouldn't eat it.
Meredith used Love and Lemons' method on the squash
Saturday, February 20, 2021, 02:53 PM
Meredith made asian chicken salad with some broccoli slaw too! Very good as usual!
Wednesday, February 17, 2021, 07:30 PM
Used from-frozen pork from December 2020. Also made Duke’s Southern Coleslaw [Duke's Mayo]. While I still did the half-yogurt thing, it was full-fat regular plain yogurt we are trying to use up.
Tuesday, February 16, 2021, 07:56 PM
Meredith made red beans and rice form Mardi Gras. She used the Joy the Baker recipe (LOCAL) with the following notes:
We really liked it. Lots of flavor and very hearty. Even Meredith liked the kidney beans. Caroline did eat it though it was not a resounding success. I would have this again!
Monday, February 15, 2021, 09:16 PM
Meredith made a double batch of Black Bean Sweet Potato Chili
Sunday, February 14, 2021, 09:10 PM
Meredith made a "Half Cake" for Caroline's half-birthday. So what you see in the first picture is the full cake!
She did 1/3 the Cakes by Courtney mint chocolate cake with rounding as needed. Note that the cake itself doesn't have any mint. For the cake, she used hot water and 1/2 tsp of espresso powder.
For the frosting, Meredith used the brown butter frosting again but again didn't use evaporated milk and instead just used whole milk. She almost made the same mistake again but caught that it is a whole stick of butter. She also again adjusted the salt to match salted butter. See 2020-10-18 for notes on major changes.
The cake was very moist! It seemed maybe underdone when we took it out but it was perfect. (~24 minutes). It “collapsed” down but really, just back to flat. And it stood up well to the very-flavorful frosting!
It was all just very good!
Sunday, February 14, 2021, 03:01 PM
Meredith made Chinese food for lunch with Sour-and-Hot Silken Tofu and Garlicky Cucumbers. They were both very good. Caroline didn't like them but she did like the surprisingly spicy Indian snack mix!