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| Re: Vote vote vote vote vote!!!! [message #33095 is a reply to message #33093 ] |
Fri, 20 August 2010 21:23   |
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I'm admitting it. I chose based off names. I'm not a baker, in spite of everyone's attempts to make me into one (I BURN MYSELF IN THE KITCHEN), but I do like eating baked goods....
Smooshes!
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| Re: Vote vote vote vote vote!!!! [message #33101 is a reply to message #33093 ] |
Fri, 20 August 2010 21:49 |
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 L.R.K.
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I confess I'm staying well away from the baking contest - really, just reading the names... this has nothing to do with something as elevated as possible health consequences if I ate any of the products - no, I'm not a baker, so I'm safe from temptation in that regard; and that is my problem; I couldn't bake those things even if I wanted to and just reading the names, well, all those things just sound so yummy and I would just want them too badly precioussss. They just make me so... hungry.
But I'm sure you'll find some forum members with far better characters than I have - so no doubt you'll achieve your sixty votes. Eventually. (I don't know why - but that made me feel a bit.... Evil. I rather like it.)
Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.
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| Re: Vote vote vote vote vote!!!! [message #33104 is a reply to message #33096 ] |
Fri, 20 August 2010 22:00 |
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| Robin wrote on Fri, 20 August 2010 21:24 |
All voting is good voting! We are not talking world leadership here! :)
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Fortunately. Man, those are hard. My normal voting or side-choosing technique is to decide who has the best name, or wears the colors I like, or what their mascot is... Sometimes I get sports teams by association. (Jeff likes the Philadelphia Eagles. My agent likes the Boston Red Sox. The Red Sox actually worked out nicely; you know how much I like socks.)
Smooshes!
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| Re: Vote vote vote vote vote!!!! [message #33105 is a reply to message #33097 ] |
Fri, 20 August 2010 22:02 |
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| Robin wrote on Fri, 20 August 2010 21:26 |
PS: I burn myself all the time. I'm afraid this does not disqualify you to learn to bake. I recommend laying in a supply of homeopathic Cantharis first however. :)
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Hey look, it's a shiny pink hellhound! *points elsewhere*
Smooshes!
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| Re: Vote vote vote vote vote!!!! [message #33110 is a reply to message #33093 ] |
Fri, 20 August 2010 23:26 |
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I voted, OK? And I have had a week of the worst baking I have ever done, four successive FAILs in a bread recipe I've been making almost forty years. I kept thinking "It can't be the yeast; it has to be that I've forgotten how to bake...I did something wrong..." I have never had bread collapse in the oven. Never. I've had better batches and lesser batches, but nothing like this week.
And though I kept thinking, "It can't be the yeast..." it was the yeast. (The yeast manufacturer's phone line person--very pleasant lady--agreed when I described what happened.) When I finally gave up tinkering and worrying and wallowing in guilt (see, I'd made bread for my friend E-, whose mother had died, and whose sister was coming to the ranch, and other family stuff, and that bread was only exceeded in ugly flatness by the first batch I made today), and went out and bought the little packets (instead of the pound lump of bulk yeast), and tried again, tired and hurting and miserable...lo, the bread dough acted like itself, felt like itself, smelled right, reacted to my handling just as it should, rose properly, went WHUFF and not "hisssss" when I punched it down, shaped nicely, rose in the pans, rose more in the oven and so on and so on.
But poor E- and her sister L- got only the sad mess of the batch I got up at 6 am to make for them (so it would be done when L- got to the ranch from Houston)...they doesn't taste bad, those dense bricks, but they're basically only good for dunking in soup. (So today I also made soup.)
Pictures of the bread-fail and bread-win are up over at LiveJournal. LiveJournal, in its incomprehensible way of dealing with someone trying to write a post, managed to scatter half a dozen READ MORE links through the thing, but they shouldn't bother anyone who follows this link. I hope.
My feet hurt; somewhere in the process I barked a knuckle and bled on one of my more presentable T-shirts (Library of Congress T-shirt); my hands feel the effects of washing the baking bowls and pans several-many times...but the bread is right now, and bread being right makes many other things bearable.
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| Re: Vote vote vote vote vote!!!! [message #33122 is a reply to message #33093 ] |
Sat, 21 August 2010 07:33 |
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I think I've died and gone to baking heaven.
a recipe with chocolate *and* beer in it at the same time... and porter/stout at that... *sigh*
I have to make this really soon!
"they say that absence makes the heart grow fungus".
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| Re: Vote vote vote vote vote!!!! [message #33140 is a reply to message #33093 ] |
Sat, 21 August 2010 12:21 |
claning
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Let me just say again that I am extremely envious that you get to live in England. It would probably take an earthquake of similar proportions to the one you went through to get me to uproot myself and flit across the Atlantic, but I would love the result.
O Chris Laning <claning@igc.org> - Davis, California
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| Re: Vote vote vote vote vote!!!! [message #33165 is a reply to message #33113 ] |
Sat, 21 August 2010 14:48 |
EMoon
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I like some dense breads. Pumpernickel, for example. Other peoples' good sourdough is sometimes dense and holey at the same time, which is a lot of fun (except when you put honey or grape jelly on it and get drips all down your front right before you're supposed to meet someone.) But when I had my mouth set for my usual brown bread...this was just not right. I've had many suggestions for what to do with the bricks. I'm thinking of slicing them, doing a bit of oven drying of them, and using them in the turkey stuffing. Or as croutons, though I really like croutons with a more open texture. One person suggested hollowing them out as serving bowls for dip at a party. I took the end off one loaf and offered it to the local birds, who ignored the crumbs. So far. The ants love it, though. If this were winter, the winter-resident birds would be all over it.
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| Re: Vote vote vote vote vote!!!! [message #33192 is a reply to message #33093 ] |
Sun, 22 August 2010 13:06 |
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Lovely recipes! As soon as I can find a few minutes, I am soooo headed for the kitchen. The chocolate stout cake recipe is similar to one that I snagged off smittenkitchen not long ago. (You all know about www.smittenkitchen.com, right? If not, waste no time! Not only are the recipes to die for, but the pictures are gorgeous). That cake is now my absolute favorite. I actually considered tweaking it a bit, coming up with a clever name and submitting it to the contest. But alas, my life has been caught in a hectic spiral toward crazyville and I didn't pull it together in time. (I did vote, though!)
This cake is good enough that I actually felt guilty about not posting a recipe (another example of feminism's ongoing struggle against socially instilled neurosis?). Anyhow, if anyone out there feels any inclination to bake anything at all, give some serious thought to this cake. It is fan-freaking-tastic.
So hurrah for the Hellgoddess! Chocolate Stout Cake for everyone!
[Updated on: Sun, 22 August 2010 13:08] by Moderator
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| Re: Vote vote vote vote vote!!!! [message #33194 is a reply to message #33143 ] |
Sun, 22 August 2010 14:17 |
katinseattle
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| boddhi_d wrote on Sat, 21 August 2010 09:25 |
*I will, at the slightest provocation, elaborate upon that comment.
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Please do elaborate. I will studiously avoid Widipedia and wait for your version. I suspect it'll be more to my taste*
*Chase scene? Roses?
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