Pulled Pork

Tonight we are having Pulled Pork, with Peppers! Sounds so delightful and very easy to  make to boot!


1 Pork Roast

1-2 Bell Peppers any type

1-2 Cups Beef Broth

1/2 Red Onion

Saute the onion and peppers together then braise the pork in the drippings and put all together in a crock pot and let sit all day!

Bagels

Bagels are one of the most amazing food groups there are. I have made them by hand before but had been putting it off because while easy they do have a time factor. The time it takes to make bagels is a while but welllll worth it in the end. I have not had a bagel from a store or a shoppe that I enjoy more than a home made bagel!

Today I put off putting off making bagels! I made 2 batches in fact and made at last count 48 though I suspect it may have been more. I put my beloved flaxseed in the second batch of bagels and look forward to those ones the most!

I think the most time consuming part is where you have to boil the bagels in water. If you do not you will not get the yummy chewy texture. And THAT is why we eat bagels!

SWEET SUCESS!!!!

French Bread 2

I think this batch will turn out nicely. So far it has risen and is in loaves waiting to rise and bake.

French Bread 1=FAIL

So I didn't even make it to the rising stage before I threw this first batch out. It seems when you dont follow a recipe it can make for disaster at times. I am sure I will wake up tomorrow with dough oozing out of the garbage and onto my floor! I had read about letting your flour and water rest and not worrying about kneeding it and thought I would give it a try HOWEVER I think you need to add a different kind of yeast to that because when I added yeast in water to this mix it just got all sloshy and goopy.

Second french bread in the resting stage now. This time I have mixed all ingredients and am letting it rest for the gluten strands to form. I plan on letting it rise, putting it in the fridge, and then trying the baking tomorrow.

French Bread

Trying my hand at french bread today. Actually I am making it up as I go along. Reading through many different recipes I have discovered there are 101 ways to make a loaf of french bread! So I am going to try a few different ones out and see what I like best. Never tried it before. One thing I have learned and I think I will do is to spray or brush the loaf with water as it goes into the oven. This makes the crust crispy and that is the part of the bread I like most. I have also discovered that the less flour and more water you used the softer the bread will be. I thought it was the other way around for many years. Currently I am letting the flour and water rest so the gluten strands start to form.

I am also thinking about getting my own wheat grinder as I have seen that many of the flours take out the nutrients and then add in other nutrients. Not so happy with that idea.

Will update on the bread.

Dice, Slice, Thrice

So I have teamed up with 2 friends and am going to be doing a cooking class~I am so very excited!

Our first night is Italian and I am in charge of bread and desserts! Oh, my oh! MY! So happy. I will keep secret for now what I am preparing but it will be delightful!

Tomorrow I am going to make French Bread! So happy! I have never made it before but I am looking forward to trying it!!