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last wednesday i invited 雪饼 and chengwei for dinner. made garlic toast using the sourdough bread i baked and it was perfect...
the softened butter beaten with garlic and lemon juice. and thyme - after the chicken pot pie, thyme has caught on with me.
i love how the butter melted and dripped through the porous sourdough bread.
nigella's meatballs and pasta again. and chengwei didn't eat the beef-pork meatballs.
ok so 雪饼 didn't say dinner was nice, but chengwei did =) and i thought it was nice too. i think it's so fun to do such dinner get-togethers - like the class parties or cookouts.
anyway, in the two short days i was in camp, i managed to get so terribly stressed within one day. i've discovered that if i'm ever terribly overworked in camp, i can always go to sunshine's house during nights off for chocolate therapy. sunshine is my chocolate therapist.
today i made myself a quick reheated dinner of (leftover) meatballs and pasta, eaten in front of the computer. the rainclouds made the evening darker than it actually looked. i rushed to great world hoping to get flours i needed for making the nigella sourdough, but they had none.
on the other hand, i spotted a bread mix going at $1.50 only.
of course i bought it, and was immediately adding water and kneading the dough at home. i did it the bertinet way. adding the (extra-virgin) olive oil to it made it come together so well, before it began turning sticky again.
the ciabatta dough was a very wet one, and i failed to lift it off the table and transfer it to the baking sheet without having to fold it again. this i will take note when i make ciabatta from scratch next time. this time i dusted the pan with cornmeal, and it worked wonders by making the parchment paper peel away from the baked bread easily.
haha this looks like a pair of big slippers; and it should, because, afterall, 'ciabatta' is the italian word for slipper. the bread, after it has cooled, isn't like the ciabatta you get at real bakeries - the crust is not tough and chewy. (and i happen to dislike ciabatta because of that.) but this one is soft in and out, just like gardenia loaves.
i haven't actually tried using bread premixes before, but i think the results were quite nice. the only problem is that i don't think it will be stocked again, since so few people bought it (to the point that the stock was going to expire, and they slashed the price by more than half to sell it). i mean, even i wouldn't have bought it if i didn't see the price cut.
and yet i somehow got myself manipulated into buying a piece of mud cake at ben and jerry’s.
the softened butter beaten with garlic and lemon juice. and thyme - after the chicken pot pie, thyme has caught on with me.
i love how the butter melted and dripped through the porous sourdough bread.nigella's meatballs and pasta again. and chengwei didn't eat the beef-pork meatballs.
ok so 雪饼 didn't say dinner was nice, but chengwei did =) and i thought it was nice too. i think it's so fun to do such dinner get-togethers - like the class parties or cookouts.anyway, in the two short days i was in camp, i managed to get so terribly stressed within one day. i've discovered that if i'm ever terribly overworked in camp, i can always go to sunshine's house during nights off for chocolate therapy. sunshine is my chocolate therapist.
today i made myself a quick reheated dinner of (leftover) meatballs and pasta, eaten in front of the computer. the rainclouds made the evening darker than it actually looked. i rushed to great world hoping to get flours i needed for making the nigella sourdough, but they had none.
on the other hand, i spotted a bread mix going at $1.50 only.
of course i bought it, and was immediately adding water and kneading the dough at home. i did it the bertinet way. adding the (extra-virgin) olive oil to it made it come together so well, before it began turning sticky again.
the ciabatta dough was a very wet one, and i failed to lift it off the table and transfer it to the baking sheet without having to fold it again. this i will take note when i make ciabatta from scratch next time. this time i dusted the pan with cornmeal, and it worked wonders by making the parchment paper peel away from the baked bread easily.
haha this looks like a pair of big slippers; and it should, because, afterall, 'ciabatta' is the italian word for slipper. the bread, after it has cooled, isn't like the ciabatta you get at real bakeries - the crust is not tough and chewy. (and i happen to dislike ciabatta because of that.) but this one is soft in and out, just like gardenia loaves.i haven't actually tried using bread premixes before, but i think the results were quite nice. the only problem is that i don't think it will be stocked again, since so few people bought it (to the point that the stock was going to expire, and they slashed the price by more than half to sell it). i mean, even i wouldn't have bought it if i didn't see the price cut.
and yet i somehow got myself manipulated into buying a piece of mud cake at ben and jerry’s.
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