Long weekend experiments
So apparently long weekends (yeah presidents day) mean that I choose to cook strange things. First up I started a sourdough culture from Goldrush Sourdough Starter. In the past I've tried a so called spontaneous sourdough where I tried to let wild yeast start fermenting in my kitchen, but there are two problems with this. 1 I always want to start this in the dead of winter, and 2 my wife and I don't tend to run the heat very high. Both of these things conspire to prevent the yeast from taking off. Having a kid now we run the house much warmer than we would if it was just us, so the yeast had a fighting chance. It is sort of hard to tell, but that is sour fermentation going on there in the picture.
I also tried the dried apples I wrote about here. They taste good, but I think that you need a mandolin slicer to get thin enough to have a prayer of getting the store bought quality. I sliced them as thinly as I was able by hand, but they are still too thick.
A slicer is definitely worth the invest ment! I love to slice potatos to make chips!
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ReplyDeleteHomemade breads always taste so much better than store bought.
ReplyDeletei'm a horrible chef myself.
ReplyDeletei used to cook bread every morning but just don't get the time these days...it always made the house smell wonderful
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