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Post by bazookagoof on Jun 20, 2022 0:41:03 GMT
A roll of Pillsbury pizza crust dough. These are rolled in cinnamon sugar. I was initially looking at the picture after reading "pizza crust" and thinking that they look sweet and not salty, then I read the rest of your post about being rolled in sugar.
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Post by Bean on Jun 20, 2022 6:09:50 GMT
Glad you enjoyed them! It sounds like they're like doughnuts? Not really my thing, but I know I'm in the minority there!
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Post by 3piggles on Jun 20, 2022 20:07:32 GMT
They're not really like donuts, which are either batter that's baked, or risen dough that's fried. Technically, this is risen dough that's fried, but they have a taste and texture all their own. I would make the ones using other Pillsbury doughs, first, but I had seen this on TV, and wanted to give it a try. The croissant dough makes much better friend donut holes, as that's really what they'd be. They're balls of dough that's fried. I also found that, like pizza, when the balls cooled, they got tough. I put them on a damp paper towel and zapped them in the microwave for 10 seconds each. Worked great. They do taste more like pizza dough than a donut, too, and rolled in cinnamon sugar, they weren't very sweet. It's more a cool thing to have on hand for in case someone dropped in and you wanted to make something quickly. I'll get another can of pizza dough, but probably use it to make pizza I've noticed fried dough balls are trendy right now. We've always made them. All around the Mediterranean each country has its own version using a risen dough, twisting off enough to make a small ball, and frying it. I used olive oil so didn't get any saturated fats. I think I cut the roll of dough so it made 12 balls, but they could be cut bigger or smaller. If I made them again, I'd make 16 so each was smaller. I think they might be softer if they're smaller. It's probably the exact opposite I'm making an old fashioned comfort food for supper. Just baked beans with cocktail franks in them. We also used to use regular frankfurters cut in bite-sized sections. Traditionally, it's served with Boston Brown Bread, not to be confused with pumpernickle or dark rye. This is Brown Bread: thewimpyvegetarian.com/boston-brown-bread-recipe/#:~:text=Boston%20Brown%20Bread%2C%20called%20simply,making%20it%20affordable%20to%20everyone. I don't have any, as hubby isn't a fan of it. It would be used to spread out the meat, the expensive item, as the baked beans were made every Friday for Saturday dinner, and the brown bread was made very Saturday for dinner. The bread not only fit with the other foods taste-wise, but helped to make the meal feed more people. I'm going to package most of it in single-servings for suppers.
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Post by Bean on Jun 21, 2022 7:33:09 GMT
Boston Brown bread sounds like Irish soda bread (the brown version).
We make a quick pizza dough with self-raising flour (which I remember you saying isn't such a common thing over there) and yogurt, you don't have to factor in the rising time like you do when you make it with yeast, and it's really good. Cheap too, I always like that!
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Post by 3piggles on Jun 21, 2022 13:11:14 GMT
I haven't seen self-rising flour in stores, but googling it showed both King Arthur and Great Value(two main flour brands) have it. King Arthur also posts a recipe for making self-rising flour which just adds baking and salt to all-purpose flour. All-purpose just means it's okay for just about any use. There is bread machine flour and some other specialty flours with whatever is needed to make them better in limited uses. I use bread machine flour in the bread machine, and the bread always comes out great. I think I used all-purpose the very first time I made bread in the old machine, but I can't remember how that came out. I have a foggy memory of it not being very good. That pizza dough sounds good, and different from regular pizza dough which has no dairy in it. Worth a try Maybe I can get Vic to cook a pizza on the grill
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Post by Bean on Jun 22, 2022 6:15:08 GMT
I was dubious before I tried it, but it's so quick and easy, and you definitely can't taste the yoghurt! It's good for making quick flatbreads too, either in a hot pan (no oil) or under the grill - they puff up really quickly. You can add things like toasted seeds too - maybe pumpkin seeds to go with soup or cumin seeds if you're having them with curry. I'm thinking about making jam as we have lots of blackcurrants. This technique of keeping the birds off your strawberries amused me - painting stones to look like strawberries, so the birds have quick peck and then give up and fly off. If only it worked with slugs too!
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Post by 3piggles on Jun 22, 2022 17:45:47 GMT
Love the fake strawberries Post the yogurt pizza dough recipe, please.
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Post by Bean on Jun 23, 2022 6:30:59 GMT
I'll have a look for one online later if you'd like quantities - I just bung in the amount of SR flour I think will make the right number of pizza bases into the electric mixer bowl and then add Greek yogurt a bit at a time until it's the right consistency. I have no idea of quantities/ ratios, but I know quite a few people who use it, so there will be recipes, and maybe they'll give adaptations if you don't have SR flour handy.
I always use polenta to roll them out too as it stops them sticking much better than flour - a friend with a pizza oven passed that one on!
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Post by 3piggles on Jun 23, 2022 18:56:00 GMT
I use corn meal, which is just cheap polenta, lol
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Post by bazookagoof on Jun 24, 2022 0:13:48 GMT
If only it worked with slugs too! Bean, my parents had a solution when they used to garden- they would put out a pie tin full of beer on the ground- the slugs would climb up, get drunk and fall in. I'm not kidding. That's really what they used to do. I remember walking out to the garden and seeing numerous slug corpses in the tins.
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Post by Bean on Jun 24, 2022 6:21:39 GMT
Yes, beer traps - we've used those before and they can be pretty effective. But not only did I feel silly buying beer just for the slugs (we don't drink it) but despite putting sticks in so other insects that fell in could get out, I'd still find the odd drowned beetle and feel bad. The wool pellets I'm using now seem to have protected the seedlings long enough to get going, and no deaths are on my conscience! I use corn meal, which is just cheap polenta, lol I thought it was to do with how finely it was ground? I use the terms and products interchangeably anyway!
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Post by bazookagoof on Jun 24, 2022 23:34:12 GMT
Yes, beer traps - we've used those before and they can be pretty effective. But not only did I feel silly buying beer just for the slugs (we don't drink it) but despite putting sticks in so other insects that fell in could get out, I'd still find the odd drowned beetle and feel bad. The wool pellets I'm using now seem to have protected the seedlings long enough to get going, and no deaths are on my conscience! I'd feel bad about other bugs drowning in the beer, too. Look on the bright side, though- I'm sure they all died happy.
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Post by Bean on Jun 25, 2022 6:01:27 GMT
Yes, that's what my gran and great aunt always used to say (I can't remember which one of them introduced me to the technique, but they both used it!).
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Post by 3piggles on Sept 17, 2023 16:21:13 GMT
Latkes 🤗
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Post by Bean on Sept 18, 2023 7:32:44 GMT
I'll take a couple please! Is there sweet potato or squash or something in there, or is it just the colouring as they've cooked?
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Post by 3piggles on Sept 18, 2023 17:57:05 GMT
Just shredded potato, GF flour, salt, pepper, onion and garlic powder substitutes. They are really good, especially with ranch dressing
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Post by Bean on Sept 19, 2023 8:07:25 GMT
Sounds great. I'm now thinking I might like to try them with some sweet potato in though - or maybe the texture of carrot would be a better match.
I tried a new recipe last night, it was called a gardener's pie. It had chunky veg and butterbeans in a tomato-based sauce, topped with mashed potato and cheese and baked. It was pretty tasty, and I served it with with freshly picked cabbage and green beans from the garden. Ii felt very nourishing!
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Post by 3piggles on Sept 19, 2023 17:21:06 GMT
That sounds really good. I'm trying to stick to the low FODMAP diet as closely as possible. I don't think the butter beans are on it, but I'd have to check. I feel rather limited in my veggie choice, so have to try reintroducing some things. I have a drawer full of canned beans that really need to be used!
Making chicken soup. I had two containers of chicken broth that were about to expire, so I figure I'll take a jar down to my daughter's, as she's the only one in her house who likes chicken soup, so she rarely has it.
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Post by Bean on Sept 20, 2023 6:42:56 GMT
Butterbeans are low fodmap to 1/4 cup (just remember to rinse them, as with all canned pulses). Funnily enough, it was actually a low fodmap recipe I printed off a few months ago (before my daughter removed me from cooking duties). I onioned and garlicked it up this time! I also added a pepper and also a few more herbs etc to the filling after tasting it, to suit our tastes. glutenfreecuppatea.co.uk/2022/04/25/gardeners-pie-recipe/If you can get past the endless pages of chatter before she gets to the recipe, there are some other good recipes on that website, and if it's not low fodmap (the focus is gluten-free) she'll tell you how to adapt it.
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Post by 3piggles on Sept 20, 2023 19:47:53 GMT
We can only have 65g of zucchini, which isn't very much. It might be less than one serving of the pie. I'd have to try it. I also have to substitute for onions and garlic, and the powders don't take up much space in a pie, lol I'd have to consider what veggies I could use in place of the zucchini, cooking time, etc. I have used leeks. Hard to say if they agreed with me or not, as I'm going through another everything's trying to kill me phase. It will end, but for now, nothing agrees with me. Actually, that's not true, Extra Creamy Oat Milk not only doesn't upset me, but soothes my innards I also at the apple cider donuts, ooh were they good, and they didn't upset me. Hmmm! A diet of donuts and oat milk. Not exactly terrible, lol I like to add mushrooms to dishes like the pie, and while we have to use canned mushrooms, they still take up space, which is good. No calories. Monash allows certain fresh mushrooms, none of which are available around here. Our supermarkets are pretty restricted. We have to go to one supermarket to get fennel in the bulb, and the same one to get a bulb of endive. Of course, it's not the market we normally use. I just glanced at Monash and saw that I can have a lot of endive. Every little thing helps make my dinner salad a bit more interesting. Took some chicken soup to Lesley, who was sleeping because she had to work last night. The joy of being the boss. We stopped for the apple cider donuts, obviously, and got them as they came out of the oven. We bought two bags, and left one with Lesley. I got an "Oooh, thank you!" message from her a little while ago, so she was awake I made another batch of chia seed pudding. We really like it, and we share one, so we don't get very much at a time. I made two with fig jam, two with lemon curd, two with peanut butter and jelly, and two with almond butter and jelly. That should last us a while. I have two extra should I want to do one with Nutella. I really like the Coco Whip. It's so much better than Cool Whip, and even than the spray whipped cream we can have.
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