What are you been cooking today

[mab19]

This afternoon I have been blanching and freezing beans.  They are producing faster than we can eat them.  Our tomatoes are not doing much though so looks like I will be buying some to make chutney this year.

[cookie1]

I made the Portuguese loaf again today. It’s DH’s new favourite. I put. Just over 100g of whole meal flour in today. I also cooked it in a large loaf tin. I also made some biscuits.




The recipe for the peanut butter blossoms is here. https://preppykitchen.com/peanut-butter-blossoms/

[judydawn]

Oh, nice baking cookie.

[mab19]

Cookie, your loaf looks good.
I made this Oatmeal Loaf today from a vegan site I follow.  It has a lovely soft texture, is a bit sweet but could do with a touch more salt.

[judydawn]

It has a nice crumb Margaret, perhaps your fillings will compensate for the lack of salt.

[cookie1]

It looks lovely Mab.

[achookwoman]

Wow, Cookie and Mab, 2 lovely loaves. I’ve just seen a recipe for a lemon cake that uses SD starter. Tempted to make one. Might make it into muffins and the I can have one and give rest away.
Cooking sweet corn, fish in SD batter and salad for lunch.

[Cuilidh]

A couple of new dishes for me today - a nut loaf that ended up using up just every type of nut I had in the house.  The recipe called for cooked chestnuts but the very expensive can I bought yesterday didn't look good when I opened it so it went straight into the rubbish (I didn't even want to put it out for the hens!) so I put in... almonds, pistachios, pecans, cashews and hazelnuts instead.  The recipe also called for dried apricots chopped into it and a packet of sage and onion stuffing ... very strange combination but it actually turned out quite nice. 

I also made RTE' s Roasted eggplant lentil salad.  Unfortunately by the time I got around to the roasting eggplant bit it was too hot so I have ended up with just the lentil salad, which is very nice.  The lentils are very strongly flavoured so I am hoping the rocket will cut through that when I add it (I haven't got the rocket yet so I am curious to see if it does manage to calm the lentils down).

[mab19]

Marina, you cooking sounds very interesting.

I made the vegetable sauce for pasta from Cookidoo for dinner tonight and a chia pudding with Greek yogurt.

[cookie1]

We are having burgers for dinner so I’ve made some No Fuss for them.

[achookwoman]

Need to make bread. So many choices.  Will make SD crumpets for friends and freezer.
We are in for a cool week so may be able to find time to do some baking.

[achookwoman]

Made the Portuguese loaf again, this time in the large loaf tin. Forgot it was in the oven and didn’t hear the timer. Bottom a bit browner but otherwise ok.

[judydawn]

I’ve done the not hearing the timer trick myself many times Chookie, I thought it was a long 10 minutes when cooking pasta the other night and I was only sitting a few metres from the timer. I use it so much for different things that I don’t think my brain recognises it anymore, especially if I’m on my iPad.  The pasta was certainly overcooked but was fine, al dente is not soft enough for me.

[cookie1]

The timer on my oven only beeps 3 times, so I usually use Siri on my watch. I’ve missed it a few times.
I made a rye SD loaf today. Also https://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=17709.msg448993#msg448993
A friend gave us a monstrous zucchini. I also Alyce’s Flavour salt in the oven. Friends suggested it to me but I could never find liquid smoke. I found some in a shop that sells American things last week.

[judydawn]

Happy to hear I’m not the only one not hearing the timer, thanks Chookie and cookie.