this is it, straight out of the container, over some tomatoes and mushrooms. it is kinda blah. no taste to speak of and without the ACTUAL egg yolks it doesn’t rise and has no body. The closest thing i can think of is Tofu. they have actually succeed in turning food into unfood. hooray. I still have most of the carton, so I will try it in an actual recipe tomorrow. Perhaps it is designed for something specific.
this is it, straight out of the container, over some tomatoes and mushrooms. it is kinda blah. no taste to speak of and without the ACTUAL egg yolks it doesn’t rise and has no body. The closest thing i can think of is Tofu. they have actually succeed in turning food into unfood. hooray. I still have most of the carton, so I will try it in an actual recipe tomorrow. Perhaps it is designed for something specific.
yes, i cheated i started with a regular dark fudge cake from duncan hines. A 1/2 box of mix then a 1/3rd cup of cocoa and it comes out black as pitch. real black moon filling would kill you (it’s shortening and powdered sugar.) i just whipped up a 1/4 cup of heavy cream and a few tablespoons of powdered sugar. btw confectioner’s sugar has corn starch in it, powdered sugar is just sugar. sometimes it matters. not in this case.
Of course I only made ½ the recipe and used my small 1½ qrt Le Creuset.But it came out pretty damn good, the crust is seriously crunchy. I wish it had risen more as the crumb was denser than what was described in the NYT. Perhaps next time i will give it a 2nd proof before I toss it in the preheated pot.
I have used the LONG RISE method before, with store bought dough. The frozen ‘pizza’ dough that the grocery stores sell takes forever to rise, but it is an easy bread method. If you leave it long enough, it will even start to turn and gives a reasonably nice sourdough loaf. Perhaps I will try combining methods – and use the premade dough and the preheated pots,
no knead bread
3 cups AP flour
1/4 tsp instant yeast
1 tsp + ¼ tsp salt
1 cup + ½ water
let proof 12-18 hours.preheated cast iron pots
dust loaf with wheat germ or cornmeal
bake 500º
covered cast iron
30 min covered
15 uncovered
My quest for recipes that make ‘just enough’ continues. I am fond of small baking pans like the 6″ cake pan. which makes half a bread loaf recipe or half a gingerbread recipe. I also made a couple more loaf pan lasagne’s – one for me and one for me mum.
Pot roast . . . well I hope it will be pot roast, the last time I tried to make it, it came out shoe leather. 1½ lb chuck steak simmered 2 hours? hopefully. I adore my 1½ qrt le Crueset Dutch Oven – best purchase I ever made.




















