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this is the final product, really the best pasta I ever had.

I have both and wanted to see what difference there was (if any) between them.

Banana Bread w/ dried cranberries and black currants.

Same recipe, same measures in both.

Ceramic pan has a blonde interior, cast iron is black ceramic.

Baked at 350° for 30 minutes, rotated left to right and front to back, then 30 minutes more.

The ceramic baked slightly taller. This may be a function of the loaf pan being just slightly narrower than the cast iron. 5" vs. 5 1/8" (127 mm vs 130.175 mm)

I THINK I shared this recipe before, but I find the pan comparison interesting.

At the 30 minute mark I caught our two youngest cats sitting on the stove trying to figure out where the smells are coming from. LOL. Was not fast enough to get that picture!

INGREDIENTS for blackcurrant banana bread:

3 ripe bananas
60g melted butter (1/4 cup or 1/2 a stick)
150g sugar (2/3 cup)
200g unbleached flour (1 1/4 cups)
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 egg, beaten
1 teaspoon baking soda
150g of fresh or frozen blackcurrants (without defreezing before use) (1 1/2 cups)

PREPARATION of blackcurrant banana bread:

Preheat oven to 350°F (180°C)

If using dried cranberries or currents, soak them in cold water for 30 minutes, dry fruit sucks the moisture out of the bread otherwise).

Mash the bananas in a bowl

Add the egg and butter

Put all the dry ingredients together into a fine mesh sieve or sifter and sift into the bowl

Mix well with a wooden spoon

Bake in a buttered loaf pan until a toothpick stuck into the bread comes out clean, 55 to 60 minutes.

Slice and serve.

cross-posted from: https://linux.community/post/515275

I like making soups and porridges. I usually add salt and pepper at the beginning to add flavor. Recently, a friend gave me a bottle of soy sauce and Im experimenting with it.

What would it make more sense? to add the soy sauce with the other ingredients before the mix boils, while boiling or only to add it before serving?

Another question is: should I use salt if I use soy sauce? Apparently, this sauce has a lot of sodium.

I made a syrup from ground black walnut and sunflower seeds, but boy is it overly sweet. I do know I could use some form of flour (qinoa, amaranth, millet, all purpose, corn meal, corn starch, etc), but I'm curious if anyone might know of something I haven't thought of yet.

I have tried posting here multiple times but I keep getting a 403 error. Anyone else have this issue? I'm including a title with hashtags, a body of text and a picture. I can post in other places with pictures without issue.

my mom used to make this a ton growing up but i was rarely in the mood for it

Salmon was vacuum sealed a couple months ago but smelled a little burnt and a small amount (1/8" deep x 2" long by 1/4" wide) discolored. I generously cut off the discolored bit but wondering if the rest will taste bad.

Edit: It turned out great! indistinguishable from un freezer burnt.

So I have been trying to make my own tortillas. I’ll found a recipe online that was flour, water, oil, and salt that seemed decent but wasn’t very good. I essentially made tortilla shaped crackers. I’m high altitude, but with nothing rising I’m not sure that matters? Anyone have a good recipe they can share? I’m kinda going for authentic styles that you would get at a taco shop.

Thanks!

I'm trying to make a döner kebab at home (derived from this video). I want to add the three following ingredients to the bread recipe: vital wheat gluten, diastatic malt powder, and dough conditioner (or enhancer). The pide recipe itself (again based off the video) goes as follows:

200g warm milk

10g instant yeast

535g bread flour (totaled)

4g sugar

245g Water

40g olive oil

8g salt

How much of the additional ingredients will I add?

Thanks for the suggestions for the tuna recipes! I just wanted to share that I made some of them and will be making more next week. So far I’ve made a few different adjustments to my onigiri, adding gochujang, kimchi or both. I also had a rice bowl topped with tuna and pickled ginger, and made my very first tuna melt with tuna, mayo, siracha and sourdough. I was going to take a picture of the melt, but it fell victim to my ravenous hunger before I could get my phone out. This pic is of the tuna, kewpie mayo and gochujang onigiri I made as I was preparing lunches for the next day. Thanks everyone for the ideas!

Any kind: Tomato, Alfredo, peanut. Anything you could put on pasta, rice, or other carbs. Just want to know which brands are good.

I usually make sauces from scratch, but I'm trying to reduce my workload by having some store-bought meals. I don't tend to care for sauce in a jar, but maybe you guys know some good ones.

(Sorry in advance for the lack of proper tags, I’m not sure how to add them on mobile)

So I tend to eat a can of tuna once or twice a week, usually with just a little salt, pepper and a dab of kewpie mayo and stuffed into onigiri. Are there any spices or sauces I can add to make it more interesting? Or any other easy tuna recipes I can make for one, preferably with rice? I really enjoy spicy foods and fermented/pickled things, but I’m not sure the best ways to combine that with something like tuna.

I've been asked to make a Thai Red curry with chicken for a larger party, and they've asked for the soup to be of variable spicyness.

I was thinking that maybe I could do the soup mild, and have an additive with extra spice.

I could go with chilli oil ofc, but I'd prefer to have the richness of the red curry flavors if possible.

Is there a good way to make some kind of red curry seasoning? Do I just offer the guests red curry paste to mix into the soup, or should I mix it with something?

Do you use them when you don't have time to cook or don't want to? Do you use them to avoid gaining weight? What is your opinion about their potential health implications?

I'm trying to recreate those XL pizza you can get at most American pizza chains. Also, do I have to increase the measurements of the other ingredients (yeast and salt)? Thanks in advance.

I’ve bought a new pot, red, beautiful and enameled. The old one I used to have was cracked. And my two cast Iron pots are not enameled.
So I ended up cleaning that cupboard & sorting pots and pans (not really what I planned to do today). And I have loads. Some from the bottom and back are really dirty & need a thorough clean.
I will have to decide which should go for keeping in the basement. For a single person the amount is ridicules & I’ve not even got to the lids on the top shelf 😱
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I have a half Christmas ham and I'm not sure if I'm supposed to glaze only the top(fat) or if I'm supposed to cover the sides as well.

I have a 2 cup pyrex but the spout on it is absolutely terrible. I've also heard modern pyrex kind of sucks anyway, so I'm looking for recommended brands to replace it with. Any suggestions?

Alternatively, what's your meal prep breakfast for the week?

I think i may have a new food hack. If you're ever out shopping and don't know what or how to make for dinner you can goto the gravy aisle and the seasoning packets read like recipes. Just pick what you want to make, it'll tell you what you need and how to make it. The packet also tells you what is in it so you can learn what spices to put on things instead of buying seasoning packets forever.

I was gifted a 900 Gram bag of Milo (I assume that's some shrinkflation crap). I love Malt and Cocoa, but this is bland and chalky. What do I do with it? So far I have tried it hot and cold on its own and mixed in coffee hot and cold. My next thought was using it in baked goods, something like an American Brownie.

Ideas?

Anyone get anything good for the holidays? Cooking ingredients, equipment, books, etc?

I got some smoked maple syrup for my wife. I can def see using it in a cocktail.

Decided to smoke a goose for Christmas. It was a big hit. We also got about 4 cups of smoked goose fat out of it.

I used a 2:1 kosher salt and maple sugar mix for dry brining the bird and left it in the fridge uncovered over night. The method I used to smoke it is here: https://blog.thermoworks.com/chicken/smoked-christmas-goose/

For no particular reason except it popped into my head, a sorta pizza hut pizza for Christmas dinner.

High hydration (maybe 70+%) same day ferment. Sauce was tomato paste, minced garlic, Basil, soy sauce, chili flakes, stock, and a splash of red wine vinegar. My tomato paste is kinda bland and sucky, and I was going for an umami bomb.

Topped with Krakow sausage, Shallot, and French style chili oil.

The bottom got nice and crispy, the middle was chewy and full of holes, a bit like a nice focaccia. So probably not really like pizza hut at all. Idk, I haven't had it in a long time.

Anywho, I enjoyed it, and happy Santas birthday.