What are you baking today?

[LEFSElover]

just to give a hint about NYT bread, it's so much fun to experiment with ingredients to add to it. last nights' was great. but about the shortbread, unless I already said this, I won't be adding the vanilla anymore, no matter how many people list it as an ingredient in the shortbread cookies, it really makes them hard and they are so perfect with the standard 3 ingreds, I'm sticking to those.

 

[Katie H]

Anybody make a grilled cheese or panini with the NYT bread yet? Very, very good.

Regularly.

Today I sliced up some of the NYT bread that I'd made with roasted garlic and rosemary a nd made grilled cheese using cheddar, Monterey Jack and Colby. Yum. Lunch was awesome.

 

[LEFSElover]

To Joe and Russell:

I've made home made cinnamon rolls, and I do it at least once a year every year because they are asked for on Super Bowl Sunday for some reason.
Guess family thinks it's now a tradition.
Anyway, what I always have to remind myself, always, always, is to take them out short of the time suggested. To me, I can't stand them getting dry, I'd rather them be just 2 minutes underdone that 5 minutes overdone. There could be residual cooking when taking them out of the oven, and they are so much trouble or effort to make if you let them go too far. Only telling you this because I see you both made them and that reminded me to let you in on a hint, take them out sooner than later.
Also wonder if anyone ever made them with the frozen dinner rolls, defrosted on top of fridge all night, with butter/sugar/brown sugar/cinnamon/raisins/walnuts/vanilla pudding mix/more butter, then baked. They are crazy sticky gooey yummy morsels. YUMMM

 

[JoeV]

Making two loaves of NYT in the Le Cloche oblong baker, plus a large batch of sandwich buns. DW made chocolate chip cookies this a.m. already. It's going to be 93 today so we're staying indoors with the A/C on.
Joe

 

[LadyCook61]

Anybody make a grilled cheese or panini with the NYT bread yet? Very, very good.

oh yes I have made them... they are delicious with Asagio cheese .

 

[LPBeier]

Forgot to mention that on Friday I made cake mix cookies with a cherry chip mix. I added mini chocolate chips, marachino cherries (thanks Dave) and a little bit of the marachino syrup for colour and flavour. They were so good I had to hide some for my samples - the rest are GONE!!!!!!!!

Today I have to make another batch of Monkey Bite Muffins, some diabetic cookies for our border's lunch and I am going to also try a spice cake mix with shredded apple and raisins. If my pain levels remain as high as they are, DH will be baking as I sit in my comfy basket chair and "supervise"!

 

[LadyCook61]

I don't know if I am going to bake, it is too hot, in the 90's.
I decided to make the 5 min. a day bread , with Vermont cheddar cheese. It is rising and will be baking by supper time. I like the 5 Min a day bread because I can bake the bread same day I make the dough.

 

[JoeV]

Well, it's all done for a few days. Great rise with all this heat and humidity today. I used an egg white wash on the rolls to hold the sesame seeds in place, and really got a lot of color as well. I tired of the seeds all falling off with just water to hold them in place, because we like the flavor of the seeds.

I made the NYT in the La Cloche with 10-grain cereal on top. DW really likes the profile of this bread better than the round loaf, but agrees that they both have their place for presentation. The long loaf will be better for making small Paninni's at 4" wide x 3-1/2" high.

I love this experimenting. Has anyone tried using the round NYT loaves like a pumpernickel with a dip in the center? Maybe a nice dill dip would go well with the white bread, but I guess you could also do the spinach dip.

Joe

 

[LPBeier]

Joe, can you please upload a picture of your La Cloche baker? I am very interested in it.

Also, is that a "real" toaster with a unique cover on it? It reminds me in a funny way of Bob Bloomer's "toaster mobile" even though it is totally different from it!

 

[JoeV]

Ask and ye shall receive...

Personally, I like it better filled with bread. LOL

I bought it through Breadtiopia.com at La Cloche Clay Baker - Oblong
Checked around and nobody had it cheaper (including shipping).

Joe

 

[Katie H]

Also, is that a "real" toaster with a unique cover on it? It reminds me in a funny way of Bob Bloomer's "toaster mobile" even though it is totally different from it!

Laurie, the "toaster" looks like it could be a cookie jar. It looks ceramic.

 

[LPBeier]

Thanks, Joe!
And the story of the toaster?

 

[JoeV]

The "TOASTER" is a cookie jar that DS gave to his mother (my DW) for Christmas.

 

[LadyCook61]

what an interesting cookie Jar !

 

[Katie H]

Nothing today. With no AC and the temp in the upper 90s and humidity to match, too hot to even think of it.

 

[LPBeier]

Thanks, Katie, I didn't see your reply about the cookie jar before I posted again! You were right! I don't know why I didn't guess that!

 

[jpmcgrew]

Kaiser Rolls from The Village Baker bread book. Got the sponge going right now.

 

[Dina]

Triple fudge chocolate cake

 

[Essiebunny]

I just removed a pan of pecan rolls from the oven.
That fudge cake sounds so good!!!!

 

[babetoo]

rolls using a cake mix in dough.

at least a half one is what the recipe calls for, ol blues recipe

babe