recipes

[tielan]

I have finally made successful No-Knead Bread and it is, indeed, really amazing.


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A bunch of recipes that I'm interested in, mainly based off the contents of our pantry, including pulses, etc.

A couple of recipe lists:
One Pot Meals
Perfect Lockdown Baking
30 Slow Cook Recipes

I'm looking more at the winter braises, stocks, and stews right now. It's going to be a long, cold winter.

Beluga (Black) Lentils:
Daal Makhani
Black Beluga Lentil Salad with Avo
Beluga Lentil and Beet Salad with Coriander Vinaigrette
Quick Braised Chard Lentils
Beluga Lentils with Butternut Squash, Mushrooms, and Plums
Punjabi Style Black Lentil Daal

And I just found a recipe for Caramel Tres Leche's Cake. Oops.

Because we have an excess of Shepherd avocadoes around here right now and they were selling a tray of 25 for $20...
Avo Breakfast Bowl
Avo Fries
Roast Carrots with Avo and Yoghurt

Although tonight what I really want is pretty much Huevos Rancheros.

I think we're probably just going to go with store bought dumplings pan-fried though...

Comments

[wpadmirer]

Oooo, caramel tres leches cake. DAMN. I haven't eaten breakfast, yet, and now I want THAT.

[tielan]

I am seriously contemplating making it, except it would require hunting up buttermilk and I am not sure that we have any right now. (It's not a common ingredient in Australia.)

[havocthecat]

I cannot get black lentils without either making a specialty online order I know not where (ugh) or hauling my ass out half an hour or more to Whole Foods or something like that (ugh) and fighting the rich folks crowd for them (triple ugh). I love black lentils, they're my favorite, did I mention that?

I love no knead bread too! I used to use the NYT recipe too when I first started to make it (and it's a great recipe!), but I have lately been making it off Bread Toast Crumbs which is the book that finally got me to realize that weighing ingredients is, in fact, SUPER THE EASIEST and bewailing the fact that the US system of measurements is not set up for that. (I realize that's a huge run-on sentence, BUT ALSO it's deserved. I have ~feelings~ about bread.)

It should be and I want all my measurements in weights now. I have a good kitchen scale and I want to use it every time I bake.

[tielan]

I have a whole box full of them up the back of the pantry and haven't really used them at all since I got them (might be as much as a year ago?) so I'm looking for ways to use them.

Lentils and pulses are not in my typical range of recipes; so moving towards them is a new experience and one that requires a bit of rethinking about the way I do things.

I only discovered this no-knead bread after a couple of years of occasional bread-making where the loaves frquently turned out painfully thick and doughy because I simply couldn't knead them enough to get the gluten happening. So, yeah, I'm a convert. The fact that it takes a little longer and maybe needs more prep? I can live with that.

[havocthecat]

I finally just caved and bought three pounds of black lentils off Amazon because otherwise I would have to drive out to Whole Foods and I'm just not bothering in a pandemic.

I am not an intuitive cook with lentils; I need a recipe to be able to shine with them. I don't have that same "feel" for them that I do with ingredients that I've cooked with for years. But if I have a good recipe, I'm pretty good with them, so thank you for posting these!

Longer and more prep is not terrible! It's also very easy. I have a no-knead cookbook my mom got me called Breat Toast Crumbs which has some delightful recipes that I think you might also like, because there's a variety of no-knead recipes in it.

https://www.amazon.com.au/Bread-Toast-Crumbs-Recipes-No-Knead-ebook/dp/B01I85QC82/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=bread+toast+crumbs&qid=1588872011&sr=8-1

[glass_icarus]

:O that bread looks so good. Also what a list of recipes!

[tielan]

It was really really good bread. Like, so delicious, I'm having to monitor it because the sistren (one of whom is low-carb, the other who is gluten intolerant) are prone to taking slices of it for butter and honey or jam.

I mean, I don't blame them, but that there is my bread that I baked and I am not wanting to lose any of it!

[jenab]

The bread looks so good.