17 March 2021

 Flowerpot Bread (English Breads and Yeast Cookery)

220oz flour [145g winter wheat, 480g AP]

1tsp active dry yeast [5g instant]

3/4oz salt [18g]

12-15oz milk & water [6oz each]

85g per pot, 12 pots

14 March 2021

 King's Hawaiian Sweet Rolls (Todd Wilbur)

16oz flour, divided [454g]

3/4c sugar [150g]*

1T plus 2tsp quick yeast*

3/4tsp salt

1c water minus 1T [225g]

3T butter [42g]

2T milk

2T beaten egg

Mix half the flour with the sugar, yeast, and salt. Combine water, butter, & milk, and heat til butter is melted. Add to flour mixture, along with egg. Mix on medium for 1 minute. Add remaining flour and knead 2 minutes longer. Let rise til doubled. Form into 1.75oz [50g] balls and rise again. Bake at 375°F for 14-16 minutes [10 minutes with the lid on, 5-10 minutes longer to brown].

*Used 100g sugar and 1T instant yeast.

21 February 2021

 Knish

(Ratner's dough)

1/3c egg whites [1 whole egg]

2T oil [25g]

1/4tsp salt

3/4c water

3c flour [400g]

Combine & beat with electric mixer til smooth. Let rest for an hour. (Stir together, then use hook)

Filling (Smitten Kitchen)

Carmeliza a small onion. Cook 1.5# potatoes [red]. Mash together & season to taste.

20 February 2021

 Blood Orange Cheesecake (Cheesecake Bible, George Geary)

Crust:

1 1/4c butter cookie crumbs [31 gingersnaps, 213g, 1 2/3c]

3T butter, melted

Bake 10 minutes at 350°F.

Filling:

1 1/2# cream cheese

1 1/2c small-curd cottage cheese, drained [340g]

1/2c sour cream [120g]

1 1/2c sugar [300g]

4 eggs

1/4c flour

1T blood orange zest [cara cara]

1/3c blood orange juice [cara cara]

1tsp fresh nutmeg

1tsp vanilla

350°F 45-55 minutes. Add topping & bake 5 minutes more

Topping:

1/2c sour cream

1/4c sugar

1T blood orange zest

2T blood orange juice [cara cara]

1/2tsp vanilla

Gingerbread cookie crust didn't really work for me, but my parents loved it. Topping was too liquid--skip the juice next time.

24 January 2021

 Ice Cream Pretzel Cake (inspired by Taste of Home)

1 1/4c crushed pretzels [150g]

6T cold butter

Combine & press into pan(s). [(8)-3"] Bake 8 minutes at 350°F, cool, and freeze.

Whizz 8.5oz package chocolate covered pretzels (set aside 8 for garnish) & mix into [coffee] ice cream. Spread about a tablespoon fudge topping [Sue's] on each crust & freeze. Top with freshly churned ice cream and freeze. Garnish with reserved pretzels and caramel sauce.

17 January 2021

 Refrigerator Bran Muffins (KMOT 1972, halved)

Pour 1c boiling water over 1c All Bran. Cream 1/2c Crisco [butter] with 1 1/2c sugar [100g]. Add 2 eggs, 1 pint buttermilk, 2c All Bran, 2 1/2c flour [350g], 2 1/2T* soda [2 1/2 tsp], and 1/2 tsp salt. Add water/bran mixture. 350°F 20-30 minutes. Keeps in fridge about 3 weeks.

*this has got to be a misprint.

I don't notice any difference between this one where only part of the cereal is soaked and the one we got from Dan's mother where all of the cereal is soaked. I thought there might be nubbly bits, but there weren't.

10 January 2021

 Hopetown Delight (The Great British Book of Baking)

200g butter

100g sugar

260g flour

40g ground rice

Doubled, 300°F fan, 20 minutes, 12 hole muffin tin.

110g cream

20g Scottish oats [Bob's Red Mill]

15g vanilla sugar

1T Jim Beam Rye

Halved, too much strong whiskey. Otherwise quite good.

29 December 2020

 Special K Bars (handwritten in Gma Elaine's REC cookbook)

1c sugar [200g]

1c white sirup [340g]

1 1/4c peanut butter [330g Jif Natural Creamy]

6c Special K [170g corn flakes]

6oz melted chocolate chips on top [definitely needs more chocolate on top!]

9x13 makes thin-ish bars, which I think I might like better.

28 December 2020

 Make Ahead Meatballs (Quick Cooking)

3 eggs

1 1/2c breadcrumbs [170g]

1/2c finely chopped onion

2T salt

1T Worcestershire

1 1/2# ground venison

1 1/2# ground pork

213 MA meatballs for the freezer.

27 December 2020

 Meatballs (Alex Guarnaschelli)

1.5# ground venison

1.5# ground pork

1 1/2c bread crumbs [170g]

2T kosher salt

4oz Parmesan [90g]

1 1/2c chopped flat-leaf parsley [15g =1/2c - 3/4c?]

3 eggs

9 cloves garlic [1/2 head]

190 total AG meatballs for the freezer.

26 December 2020

 German Apple Pancakes (Spoonfuls of Germany)

Whisk together:

2 eggs

180g milk

pinch salt

125g flour

55g seltzer water

1 tsp vanilla

Peel & slice apples [1 Granny Smith] 1/8" thick. Fry in butter until softened & coloured (sprinkle with cinnamon-sugar, also).

25 December 2020

 Cheesy Crackers (Smitten Kitchen)

6oz sharp cheddar, grated (Pride)

57g butter

65g whole wheat flour 

31g ap flour

1/4tsp kosher salt

1/8tsp onion powder

Whizz til ball forms. Roll out and bake 350°F 10-12 minutes.

Definitely more Cheez-It than goldfish.

Sigma Force Series Order

 1. Sandstorm, 2004

2. Map of Bones, 2005

3. Black Order, 2006

4. The Judas Strain, 2007

5. The Last Oracle, 2008

6. The Doomsday Key, 2009

7. The Devil Colony, 2011

8. Blood Line 2012

9. The Eye of God, 2013

10. The 6th Extinction, 2015

11. The Bone Labyrinth, 2015

12. The Seventh Plague, 2016

13. The Demon Crown, 2018

14. Crucible, 2019

15. The Last Odyssey, 2020

16. Kingdom of Bones, 2021