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  • #6902
    Whispered
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,772 ✭✭✭✭Whispered


    I have some sourdough starter coming my way next week. I was wondering if anybody has any hints or tips on looking after it, any foolproof recipes etc

    Recipes I've looked up so far mention proofing baskets and bannetons. From what I gather these are for shape? Can I use anything I might already have?


  • #6903
    Dizzyblonde
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 12,110 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dizzyblonde


    Whispered wrote: »
    I have some sourdough starter coming my way next week. I was wondering if anybody has any hints or tips on looking after it, any foolproof recipes etc

    Recipes I've looked up so far mention proofing baskets and bannetons. From what I gather these are for shape? Can I use anything I might already have?

    There's a thread currently running in Cakes & Bakes on the subject of sourdough starters, the posters in there should be able to help you http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057548972


  • #6904
    Bored_lad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 919 ✭✭✭Bored_lad


    Whispered wrote: »
    I have some sourdough starter coming my way next week. I was wondering if anybody has any hints or tips on looking after it, any foolproof recipes etc

    Recipes I've looked up so far mention proofing baskets and bannetons. From what I gather these are for shape? Can I use anything I might already have?

    The 3,2,1 recipe is basically foolproof. It's basically 1 part starter, 2 parts water and 3 parts flour 2℅ salt. eg. 100g starter, 200g water and 300g flour. This only works with a 100% percent hydration starter ie. it's equal parts water and flour.

    You don't really need bannetons just line a colander with a tea towel make sure you dust it with plenty of flor so it doesn't stick.


  • #6905
    Dial Hard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,345 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    Ring the alarm - the brie & speck-stuffed gnocchi is back in Lidl! Well, in Ballycullen, anyway.

    *fills trolley*


  • #6906
    The Black Oil
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Regional East Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 19,487 CMod ✭✭✭✭The Black Oil


    More Netflix food porn.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epMAq5WYJk4

    Moderator: Television, Psychology and Dublin County North.

    CMod: Entertainment



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  • #6907
    Faith
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,661 Mod ✭✭✭✭Faith


    I'm on holidays at the moment, in an all inclusive resort with 9 restaurants, each with a different theme. Oh my, I am as fat as a fool. I have actual food fatigue now, where I've started skipping meals just so I can give my stomach a break. It's wonderful :D

    I've also had the opportunity to try some things I've never had before. I had escargot the other night! They're like fatter, meatier mussels. Plantains are nice, sweeter than expected. What are you supposed to do with a tamale?! Do you eat the leaf thing it's wrapped in? Also had tempura ice cream - that was fun!


  • #6908
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 2,645 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Faith wrote: »
    I'm on holidays at the moment, in an all inclusive resort with 9 restaurants, each with a different theme. Oh my, I am as fat as a fool. I have actual food fatigue now, where I've started skipping meals just so I can give my stomach a break. It's wonderful :D

    I've also had the opportunity to try some things I've never had before. I had escargot the other night! They're like fatter, meatier mussels. Plantains are nice, sweeter than expected. What are you supposed to do with a tamale?! Do you eat the leaf thing it's wrapped in? Also had tempura ice cream - that was fun!

    Sounds amazing Faith!. :D

    No, don't eat the thing wrapped around a tamale - it's a corn sheaf and is not edible. It's a wrapper for steaming the fillings.


  • #6909
    Faith
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,661 Mod ✭✭✭✭Faith


    Thanks ME! The whole tamale was a bit intimidating so I pretty much avoided it. I tried the filling, but I'm not very familiar with Mexican cuisine so there's a great deal of trial and error. Chimichangas are delicious though!


  • #6910
    MissFlitworth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,057 ✭✭✭MissFlitworth


    Super jealous, Faith! Mexico is my dream 'eating' holiday. I want to go and just walk around with a fork in my hand noshing on things.

    Speaking of eating away - I'll be heading to New York for work in a bit, won't have a lot of free time but should be able to legger out for the occasional solo food foray. Anyone eaten anything lovely there recently that I should try. I have a spreadsheet with doughnut and pizza options :)


  • #6911
    Gloomtastic!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,360 ✭✭✭Gloomtastic!


    Planning a chicken wing feast for Friday. Came across this baked recipe that uses baking powder to crispen the skin.
    http://www.recipetineats.com/crispy-oven-baked-chicken-wings-honey-garlic-sauce/
    Can anyone vouch for this?


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  • #6912
    Dizzyblonde
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 12,110 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dizzyblonde


    Gloomtastic! wrote: »
    Planning a chicken wing feast for Friday. Came across this baked recipe that uses baking powder to crispen the skin.
    http://www.recipetineats.com/crispy-oven-baked-chicken-wings-honey-garlic-sauce/
    Can anyone vouch for this?

    I never heard of that, but I can vouch for cornflour working really well. My daughter dusts her chicken wings in it before baking them and then tossing them in Frank's Sauce. She can't bear 'wobbly' chicken skin.


  • #6913
    Zelda247
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,157 ✭✭✭Zelda247


    Can you pre cook mushrooms, store them in the fridge and then add to a sauce? I always find when I cook diced chicken with mushrooms they all end up tasting very watery.


  • #6914
    MissFlitworth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,057 ✭✭✭MissFlitworth


    I feel like I remember someone here having done the baking soda thing and accidentally ended up with wings that tasted of baking soda. Although they might have used too much!

    I use cornflour a lá DB's daughter and the Elephant & Castle chicken wing thread and it works a treat


  • #6915
    dibkins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 594 ✭✭✭dibkins


    Well, that's chicken wings going in the shopping cart tonight:D


  • #6916
    Mrs Fox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,292 ✭✭✭Mrs Fox


    I believe rice flour does the trick to keep them crispy too.


  • #6917
    Mrs Fox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,292 ✭✭✭Mrs Fox


    Zelda247 wrote: »
    Can you pre cook mushrooms, store them in the fridge and then add to a sauce? I always find when I cook diced chicken with mushrooms they all end up tasting very watery.

    You sure can.


  • #6918
    MissFlitworth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,057 ✭✭✭MissFlitworth


    Hmm.. seriously failing at crepes. Dog has had so many burnt, doughy messes he's now refusing them.


  • #6919
    Dial Hard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,345 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    MissFlitworth wrote:
    Hmm.. seriously failing at crepes. Dog has had so many burnt, doughy messes he's now refusing them.


    I don't "do" Pancake Tuesday. Sweet things are not dinner, as far as I'm concerned, and I don't like savoury crepes. So, chorizo and chickpea stew it is for us.


  • #6920
    MissFlitworth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,057 ✭✭✭MissFlitworth


    Oh chickpea & chorizo - yum!

    I'm attempting crepes to fill with a ham/spinach/mushroom thing I've made and then bake with a little cheese on top. But it's just not a goer. Both glooped and burnt, dog is rejecting them now.


  • #6921
    Mrs Fox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,292 ✭✭✭Mrs Fox


    MissFlitworth wrote: »
    Oh chickpea & chorizo - yum!

    I'm attempting crepes to fill with a ham/spinach/mushroom thing I've made and then bake with a little cheese on top. But it's just not a goer. Both glooped and burnt, dog is rejecting them now.

    how do you make your batter? Could it be your pan, or maybe heat too high?


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  • #6922
    MissFlitworth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,057 ✭✭✭MissFlitworth


    I used this recipe MrsF

    http://odlums.ie/recipes/traditional-pancakes/

    Probably a combo not enough fat & pan too hot to be honest! I've passed on the pancake baton though, someone else is going to make them for me :)


  • #6923
    iwantmydinner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,246 ✭✭✭iwantmydinner


    I used the recipe on Bord Bia website - 100g cream plain flour, one egg, 300ml milk, pinch of salt, and drop of oil/melted butter. Batter was thinner than I'm used to but it produced four gorgeous thin pancakes/crepes. Best I've ever made to be honest.

    Had them for dessert after a v comforting dinner of fish fingies, waffles, (perfectly!) poached eggs and frozen sweetcorn.


  • #6924
    Whispered
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,772 ✭✭✭✭Whispered


    I went and bought ready made ones in Aldi. We had them for brekkie after heating in the microwave.

    Should I just leave and never darken your door again? :pac:


  • #6925
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    I had a pancake overdose last night, but it was worth it.
    My 3 year old is a glutton, he actually ate one more than me!


  • #6926
    MissFlitworth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,057 ✭✭✭MissFlitworth


    Whispered wrote: »
    I went and bought ready made ones in Aldi. We had them for brekkie after heating in the microwave.

    I've been eyeing up those bags of little tiny bite sized pancakes in Tesco for the last while! I could just see myself watching tv & dipping them into a jar of warm Nutella :D

    My mam admitted last night that after around 14 years of Pancake Tuesday she got hacked off with the whole thing and started buying packs of ready made ones. When we got home from school she'd be all 'you're home! perfect timing!' and be flipping the last one in a pan. I'm actually in awe of her.


  • #6927
    Dial Hard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,345 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    *doffs hat to Mammy Flitworth*

    I can't wait to tell my mam this, she hated Pancake Tuesday. She never would have gotten away with this, though, we all insisted on being involved in the cooking and then my dad would try to teach us to flip them. You can imagine the state of the kitchen by the end of the whole affair, with five kids and a very over-exuberant dad all trying to cook and flip their own pancakes.

    God, when I think about it. I must send her a sympathy card.


  • #6928
    Dizzyblonde
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 12,110 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dizzyblonde


    Mr. Dizzy loves cooking pancakes, so I left a jug of batter by the hob last night and he had a happy half hour flipping. I use Jamie Oliver's recipe for American style breakfast pancakes and it never fails.

    1 cup of self raising flour
    1 cup of milk
    1 egg
    a pinch of salt

    The recipe includes a pear grated into the mix but I don't use it so I add a little water to the mix so they're not too stodgy.

    On the table we had butter, lemon wedges, sugar, Nutella, marmalade, jam, maple syrup and ham. I didn't try it but the others had ham and maple syrup on some and declared it to be a taste sensation :)


  • #6929
    MissFlitworth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,057 ✭✭✭MissFlitworth


    I'm not sure how she managed to con us, I'm guessing I must have been around 18 when the pancake fraud was being committed and maybe too cool for school to be eating pancakes at home (foolish, foolish me!) but if I couldn't tell the difference between the homemade ones and the far more visually perfect shop ones I'm not the person I thought I was! :D

    Totally understand how you'd be raging and sick of dealing with the batter, the smoke, the 'help' from small hands, the complaining and the cleaning!


  • #6930
    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,863 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    We had savoury crêpes with rare flank steak, blue cheese, spinach, mushrooms and a balsamic reduction for dinner, followed by more pancakes with lemon juice and sugar for dessert. Yummy!


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  • #6931
    The Hill Billy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,859 ✭✭✭✭The Hill Billy


    HB Jr II quite possibly ate his own weight in pancakes last night. Pancakes are his favourite food with pizza coming a very close second. It is his birthday today, so guess what's on the menu tonight? These will probably stand out as the two best consecutive days of his young life. :)


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