Quite a bit of cooking today. Pulled pork, salted cashews, coleslaw, caponata, verdura cotta, pommes etuvees, etc.
Yesterday's sourdough was, as I feared, a disaster - I let it stand to long - the mixture - and it has become too sour. Not sure if it's worth rescuing - think I'll make some conventional bread with dried yeast tomorrow for our visitors. I'll grind up the sour dough into crumbs and use them sparingly... most of them will be in the freeezer for some time. A shame, but a valuable lesson learned I think. Perhaps I can dust a new starter with some spores of the old one.
Yesterday's muffins were pretty good - I would have called them buns years ago, but buns aren't fashionable, and as I made these in a 6-hole silicon brioche mould I guess they are more muffin than bun. This recipe is based on my family's banana loaf recipe, which I have been messing about with for years. This is also a frugality points recipe - because I used up two brown bananas and some very leftover blueberries.
So: mash two old bananas, add 2 cups of flour (use basic mugs) or substitute half a cup of flour with dessicated coconut.then add a mug of soft brown sugar, about 4oz soft marge (oh use butter if you want, sprinkle on 1 tsp of bi-carb, add 2 eggs and some lemon juice (just a squeeze, lime is better if you are just doing banana and coconut. Then mix them all with an electric mixer and add half a punnet (is that about 100g? 75g? ) and fold them in (you can add them before mixing if you like). If the mixture is very stiff loosen if with a little milk (a couple of tablespoons), then put them into whatever you use to make muffins (12 small ones) or buns (20? more?). Cook in oven at gas 4-5 for about 20 minutes. Chuck onto cooling rack and devour.
The banana bread recipe made a large loaf - and has an extra banana or two in it. Also brazil or walnuts - about half a mug full, chopped, or anything else you like. My mother once disgusted me by adding dates - urrrrgh - how could she? My sister uses chocolate chips instead of nuts, and I suppose chopped caramels/toffees could be nice too, but these days I like coconut and plenty of lime juice in it. Rum?
What we ate
Pulled pork, pommes etuvees, coleslaw, verdura cotta
Strawberries, whipped cream.
Drank:: Some very nice Sauvignon de Touraine.
Discovered some nice white tortilla chips, which are cheese flavoured and contain linseeds.
.
Yesterday's sourdough was, as I feared, a disaster - I let it stand to long - the mixture - and it has become too sour. Not sure if it's worth rescuing - think I'll make some conventional bread with dried yeast tomorrow for our visitors. I'll grind up the sour dough into crumbs and use them sparingly... most of them will be in the freeezer for some time. A shame, but a valuable lesson learned I think. Perhaps I can dust a new starter with some spores of the old one.
So: mash two old bananas, add 2 cups of flour (use basic mugs) or substitute half a cup of flour with dessicated coconut.then add a mug of soft brown sugar, about 4oz soft marge (oh use butter if you want, sprinkle on 1 tsp of bi-carb, add 2 eggs and some lemon juice (just a squeeze, lime is better if you are just doing banana and coconut. Then mix them all with an electric mixer and add half a punnet (is that about 100g? 75g? ) and fold them in (you can add them before mixing if you like). If the mixture is very stiff loosen if with a little milk (a couple of tablespoons), then put them into whatever you use to make muffins (12 small ones) or buns (20? more?). Cook in oven at gas 4-5 for about 20 minutes. Chuck onto cooling rack and devour.
The banana bread recipe made a large loaf - and has an extra banana or two in it. Also brazil or walnuts - about half a mug full, chopped, or anything else you like. My mother once disgusted me by adding dates - urrrrgh - how could she? My sister uses chocolate chips instead of nuts, and I suppose chopped caramels/toffees could be nice too, but these days I like coconut and plenty of lime juice in it. Rum?
What we ate
Pulled pork, pommes etuvees, coleslaw, verdura cotta
Strawberries, whipped cream.
Drank:: Some very nice Sauvignon de Touraine.
Discovered some nice white tortilla chips, which are cheese flavoured and contain linseeds.
.
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