No sourdough discards here.
pesosA space for mostly short form stuff and responses to things I see elsewhere.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Clarke's Third Law.
This morning, sitting outside a cafe that was actually closed because of the lockdown here, Syncthing made a believer of me.
I enjoyed, if that's the right word, giving blood and then plasma regularly in the UK. Since moving to Italy, I have tried a couple of times to donate, but they won't have me, on the grounds that I lived in the UK during BSE. I know I shouldn't, but I take it personally.
They don’t look like much, but they tasted great, ricotta with rosemary butter, because the sage has vanished.
pesosGrano arso is effectively smoked flour, although I don’t know whether they smoke the flour or scorch the grain, as history suggests. Either way it makes a beautifully dark loaf with a smoky aroma and sweetish crumb.
pesosThe internet couldn’t make its mind up. Cut an X. Cut a Y. Just a slit will do. Round the equator. Round the poles. Boil, steam, roast, microwave.
So, back to basics.
MTAOFC says to peel a strip (I cut a slit) put them in cold water, bring to a boil and boil for 1 minute. Then pull them out three at a time and peel. And by golly if it wasn’t pretty much OK. Better than boiling for longer and better than roasting.
pesosI’d really like to know what @rachelaliceroddy thinks of the great bucatini shortage and, even more, the great bucatini infatuation, which has been all over the internets and which I mentioned in the latest issue of Eat This Newsletter (link in bio).
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