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I actually still have a bunch of turkey, may try the very same chili but with turkey.
For turkey your are probably going to want to put in more seasoning than you might think, but it soaks up the flavor something fierce, so you can get ready flavorful combinations out of your meat. May I also suggest making it a 3 bean chili with kidney, black, and great northern bean combo.
 
Had some leftover colcannon (mashed potato, cabbage, bacon fat and a ridiculous amount of butter) so made potato cakes and topped with poached eggs:
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Had some leftover colcannon (mashed potato, cabbage, bacon fat and a ridiculous amount of butter) so made potato cakes and topped with poached eggs:
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I'm jealous of your plating and presentation. No matter what I do it looks like shit, even if it's delicious.
 
I made a 1-2-3 bread (1 part sourdough starter, 2 parts water, 3 parts flour, 2% by weight of the flour--salt) and I cut up a jalapeno, half of a smoked sausage, and I threw some little cheese cubes in and its really fuckin good.
I am intrigued by this as a sourdough dweeb also. Do you prove it like normal? At what point do you add your mix ins? I've never made a 'flavoured' sourdough beyond like nuts and seeds on top.

Had some leftover colcannon (mashed potato, cabbage, bacon fat and a ridiculous amount of butter) so made potato cakes and topped with poached eggs:
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Totally drooling. I fucking love colcannon. Adding all that cabbage to pretend it's healthy, when really it's just potatoes as a vehicle for butter.
 
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I recently found Ernest Hemmingway's recipe for hamburgers.
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It's certainly quite interesting. I'm tempted to give it a shot in the next couple of days with the pound of beef in my fridge. I need a few things, of course, since some of these ingredients are rather obscure and since Spice Islands no longer makes their Mei Yen Powder.

It'd be kinda fun to see how a famous man of the past enjoyed his burgers.
 
I recently found Ernest Hemmingway's recipe for hamburgers.
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It's certainly quite interesting. I'm tempted to give it a shot in the next couple of days with the pound of beef in my fridge. I need a few things, of course, since some of these ingredients are rather obscure and since Spice Islands no longer makes their Mei Yen Powder.

It'd be kinda fun to see how a famous man of the past enjoyed his burgers.
That's interesting, I'm going to have to try this some day. My parents used to make burgers with a bunch of shit mixed in but they would always fall apart, I bet the egg solves that problem.

If Hemingway were alive now he would probably add a dash of fish sauce, since he seems to be a bit of an umami hound.
 
I am intrigued by this as a sourdough dweeb also. Do you prove it like normal? At what point do you add your mix ins? I've never made a 'flavoured' sourdough beyond like nuts and seeds on top.


Totally drooling. I fucking love colcannon. Adding all that cabbage to pretend it's healthy, when really it's just potatoes as a vehicle for butter.
I added the mix ins in the initial kneading period but I use a Kitchenaid stand mixer (the sausage was cubed up about the same size as the peppers but still got kinda mashed up during kneading, and I added the cheese cubes at the last like minute or so of kneading so they didnt get too beat up), I just stop it and scrape the dough down off the hook every now and then to redistribute the stuff, but other than that I follow the proofing method of the Tartine bread book--Ill shape it into a ball, and then 30 minutes into the proof Ill come back and do a stretch and fold just to further redistribute the stuff (and in Tartine Bread, some people add the salt and mix ins at this point) and then do another stretch and fold at the 1 hour mark, then do a regular proofing period, shape it and put it in whatever pan, and let it have its final proof, sometimes overnight in the fridge. I think I baked it around 35 minutes at 375, but it was a small loaf, I kinda just winged it on the temperature and time.

Admittedly Im not as strict as most people about timing and temperature and shit, baking as a science, because in my mind as long as the bread rises, youve got bread.

This website is a good resource, I read it pretty often for ideas and they have a decent bread forum for discussing techniques if youre interested. I know reddit has a bread forum too, r/breadit and their sidebar there has links to a few other bread reddits, one is r/sourdough and one for pizza although the pizza one is mostly just pictures, the bread one is mostly photos too but about half of the time, theyll post a recipe if theres somebody asking.
 
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I had some rutabega, so I cubed them and pan fried them in butter and oil with some salt and thyme. After they were mostly cooked I added some chopped cabbage and then about 1 tsp sugar.
I roasted some kielbasa to put on top of it and made some onion gravy to finish it off. It was great! I only added enough sugar to enhance the sweetness, and it was a great balance to the savory gravy and keilbasa. Very delicious.
 
I have now perfected the art of making Japanese-styled hamburger steak. For the patty, you mix half a raw onion and half cooked onions, chopped. You also gotta add an egg, seasonings, and some panko breadcrumbs slightly mixed with milk. Found out the secret was to give it a little vinegar or wine and then put a lid on it and let it cook on the inside for a few minutes. Sauce is made of the meat residue in the pan, tomato sauce, worchestershire/tonkatsu sauce, soy sauce, and a bit of water.
 
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I had some rutabega, so I cubed them and pan fried them in butter and oil with some salt and thyme. After they were mostly cooked I added some chopped cabbage and then about 1 tsp sugar.
I roasted some kielbasa to put on top of it and made some onion gravy to finish it off. It was great! I only added enough sugar to enhance the sweetness, and it was a great balance to the savory gravy and keilbasa. Very delicious.
Sounds great, anytime I have a rutabaga (we call em swedes over here) I just cop out and mash the sucker with loads of black pepper and an ungodly amount of butter.
 
I recently found Ernest Hemmingway's recipe for hamburgers.
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It's certainly quite interesting. I'm tempted to give it a shot in the next couple of days with the pound of beef in my fridge. I need a few things, of course, since some of these ingredients are rather obscure and since Spice Islands no longer makes their Mei Yen Powder.

It'd be kinda fun to see how a famous man of the past enjoyed his burgers.
Interesting but it sounds more like a fried meatloaf. I generally disagree with adding anything other than ground meat to the patty, and seasonings should be on the surface. Let us know how it turns out though.
 
Not cooking, but related enough I hope:

I just baked some cranberry bread but the yeast went super fucking crazy and it's the shape of an atomic explosion.
Literally just writing this to rant about how retarded my bread ended up looking. Legit can't seem to figure out the mechanics of yeast, like my baking either fucking EXPLODES or doesn't do anything at all. Any tips?
 
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