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KitchenKatalog: Blog 73
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!
Saturday, February 13, 2021, 02:00 PM
This was basically the same as 2020-11-14 but we wanted to note the amounts of butter. Meredith made it with 3 Tbsp of butter for two packs of ravioli.
Saturday, February 13, 2021, 01:17 PM
I made no-knead brioche from America's Test Kitchen. I followed their recipe exactly. It seemed like it wouldn't make enough since it wasn't much flour but I think it was fine in the end. I started it on Thursday morning and cooked it Saturday. (I shaped it around 10:30 and cooked it around 1:15).
Final temp was 195.8°F which, while in line with the recipe, was a bit high for Albuquerque's altitude. It wasn't dry or anything so I guess that is good.
It also may have been slightly over-proofed as you can see in the cut slice. The whole were pretty big!
It was nowhere near as good or rich or soft or dense or buttery or sweet as the one from Trader Joes but it was still very good! Reminded me of challah more than the Trader Joes one. But I actually think theirs is the exception and this is closer to what I've had elsewhere.
The main use was for french toast
Wednesday, February 10, 2021, 08:33 PM
I had BBQ oven fried wings and I made seared salmon with cilantro chile sauce for Meredith and Caroline (well, Caroline's didn't have sauce).
The wings were only dry-brined for about 10 hours but I think that actually worked pretty well! The sauce was butter, BBQ Sauce, and a bit of sriracha.
Wednesday, February 10, 2021, 08:35 AM
Meredith made a Turmeric Pineapple Carrot Smoothie from Yay for Food (LOCAL). Her notes:
Did about a quarter of the recipe roughly, plus a scoop of vanilla protein powder.
Tuesday, February 09, 2021, 08:49 PM
We made sous vide scallops for our anniversary dinner (a day late). We used a frozen scallops (defrosted) from Costco. To cook them sous vide, I followed the guide from Izzy Cooking (LOCAL including PDF of page with helpful tips). We did 30 min at 130°F and then the ice-bath. I put some butter in the bag as well.
We super-seared them in butter when they were done. I think next time, we would probably try a lower heat and maybe even the full recipe here. Ours were really good but the outside was still a tad chewy. We served them on cilantro green sauce made with jalapeños.
Meredith also made her favorite green beans. And we had store-bought bread.
Finally, we had brookies for dessert