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lockdown food experiments
Apr. 18th, 2020 07:58 amvegan meringues (my aquafaba was accidentally salted, but if anything that added to the nutty, caramelized flavour of the end product)
oven-baked potato crisps (the internet was very "this won't work unless your potato slices are precisely the same thickness, you must use a mandolin" but I didn't and it was fine. great, even; I may never eat a cold potato crisp again.
apple crumble featuring amaretto and tinned granny smiths best before May 2017 - surprisingly fine all things considered
lime & soda bread: dried yeast cannot be found anywhere, so I looked up some alternative ways of making bread rise. apparently the soda needs acidity to make bubbles, and given how much I'm missing pubs it seemed like the obvious choice...
gram flour pancakes with lemon juice & baking soda (it makes everything so FLUFFY I might put it in everything from now on also it feels like I'm doing SCIENCE)
amaretti biscuits - basically just ground almonds, sugar, and egg white. so crunchy-chewy and wonderful!
chilli with red wine, marmite, and cinnamon (alongside all the spices you'd expect). I know, it sounds atrocious, but it was so divine I made it twice, with huge juicy chunks of mushroom that burst with umami wonder.
banana & walnut brownie bread - really just another baking soda experiment, this time, "is it possible to make a brownie, but fluffy?" which in retrospect was really not a question that needed asking. but still it's a pretty great cake, with treacle-y dark brown sugar because that's all I had left after all the other (uncharacteristically sweet) baking shenanigans.
tofu: pressed, cubed, shaken in cornflour, baked. so crispy! so looking forward to putting this in a stiry-fry later.
I really, really like having the time to carry out these experiments.
I really, really wish it wasn't under such horrifying circumstances.
it's now over a month since I was within two metres of another human being. but hey, my ex drew me an imaginary pet to cuddle so how bad can it be, really.
oven-baked potato crisps (the internet was very "this won't work unless your potato slices are precisely the same thickness, you must use a mandolin" but I didn't and it was fine. great, even; I may never eat a cold potato crisp again.
apple crumble featuring amaretto and tinned granny smiths best before May 2017 - surprisingly fine all things considered
lime & soda bread: dried yeast cannot be found anywhere, so I looked up some alternative ways of making bread rise. apparently the soda needs acidity to make bubbles, and given how much I'm missing pubs it seemed like the obvious choice...
gram flour pancakes with lemon juice & baking soda (it makes everything so FLUFFY I might put it in everything from now on also it feels like I'm doing SCIENCE)
amaretti biscuits - basically just ground almonds, sugar, and egg white. so crunchy-chewy and wonderful!
chilli with red wine, marmite, and cinnamon (alongside all the spices you'd expect). I know, it sounds atrocious, but it was so divine I made it twice, with huge juicy chunks of mushroom that burst with umami wonder.
banana & walnut brownie bread - really just another baking soda experiment, this time, "is it possible to make a brownie, but fluffy?" which in retrospect was really not a question that needed asking. but still it's a pretty great cake, with treacle-y dark brown sugar because that's all I had left after all the other (uncharacteristically sweet) baking shenanigans.
tofu: pressed, cubed, shaken in cornflour, baked. so crispy! so looking forward to putting this in a stiry-fry later.
I really, really like having the time to carry out these experiments.
I really, really wish it wasn't under such horrifying circumstances.
it's now over a month since I was within two metres of another human being. but hey, my ex drew me an imaginary pet to cuddle so how bad can it be, really.