The Last Thing You Put In Your Mouth....

tonight I only had a tiny bite
being a better sharer

hot cocoa and one of these




(one cookie chip, not one box of them)

Grits, eggs and bacon breakfast-for-lunch. Yum.

Lady Grey Tea

I'm sauteing diced green bell peppers (with s&p, turmeric, garlic, chile pepper, oil) and just tasted a piece: done, tastes good.

Lady Grey tea - decaf

salted caramel cookie chips

buttermilk

Earl Grey tea

half of the last of the homemade bialys, toasted, from that Dan Lepard recipe. The bialy is spotted with good olives and filled in the middle with some caramelized onion and poppy seeds and is nice and chewy.

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/mar/27/black-olive-bialy-recipe-baking

Two small cups of Diet Jello.

that recipe looks great! I think I'll have to try making my own bialys.

Phoenix!!! So good to see you.

I've made them twice; first time was perfect, at least in memory. Second time I was being lazy and made all the dough but only used half and froze the rest. Then that 1/2 batch of dough didn't turn out bialys as chewy as I remembered. Not sure what I did wrong, maybe not enough kneading.

When I thawed the rest of the dough from the freezer some weeks later, I added a smidge more yeast to the big lump of thawing/thawed dough, just in case, and those bialys turned out to be chewy again, simply perfect.. better than any I've had from a bakery (though New Mexico is probably not the center of bialy making bakeries). Maybe it wasn't the smidge of yeast that fixed the last half of the dough, but the added kneading. Chewy is important! Anyway, chewy or not, they still tasted good each time.

I reread the recipe and see Dan Lepard called it no knead dough. So, it's a mystery, this chewy business. Did I follow the recipe the first time - I think I did both times I put together the dough, but maybe the second time I didn't let it mature enough hours in the fridge.

Oh - my onions are usually caramelized, and I thought they tasted great with the poppy seeds.
And - I probably used lower heat for the baking.

Those bialys do sound good. Now that I'm newly re-kitchened, time for some baking!

Newly re-kitchened, sounds great, Margo.

I need to read up on the manuals to use the appliances. It's so long since I have had fully functioning kitchen appliances. I'm absolutely revelling in the dishwasher

My dishwasher was expiring from age when I bought this lemon-townhouse. Passed inspection but didn't work. I use it for placement of glass jars, misc. containers, new sponges, cleaning stuff at the bottom, miscellany. There's more to whine about but that'll put me in a poor mood.

Have fun with all the new stuff..

psssst Margo

bialys are kinda like


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bagels

poached egg from dinner