Food from the minds of an engineer, scientist, and anyone else who's inclined to do some crazy multitasking in the kitchen...
I used Peter Reinhart’s dough recipe(http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/001199.html), but I added a little more flour and kneading before use. I also used 2 pizza’s worth of dough.
Inside I put: Pesto, lightly sauteed mushrooms, spinach (from baby spinach that I wilted at the end of the mushroom cooking), onion (sweated), capers, mozzarella, provolone, Parmesan, geno salami, dash of [...]
Step one: Thaw the turkey! (In the refrigerator for a few days, so put it in there now)
Ok, now that the turkey is liquifying… here is a rip-off from Alton Brown, with some comments:
Ingredients:
1 (14 to 16 pound) frozen young turkey
For the brine:
1 cup kosher salt
1/2 cup light brown sugar
1 gallon vegetable stock
1 tablespoon black [...]
So it has been a looooooong time since an update. There are two perfectly good reasons for this:
1. I couldn’t charge my camera so I couldn’t take pictures. I was going to post a green been casserole I made 2 weeks ago, but I wanted pictures. Not to worry, this has been fixed, and now [...]
Recipe courtesy Alton Brown
1 cup water
3/4 stick butter (6 tablespoons)
1 tablespoon sugar
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 cup flour
1 cup eggs, about 4 large eggs and 2 whites
Vegetable oil, for frying
Powdered sugar, for toppingBoil water, butter, sugar, and salt together in a saucepan. Add flour and work it in until it is all incorporated and dough [...]
So if you don’t understand the title, then you’ve never had a biegnet, which is a French style doughnut. I must say before moving to the south, I’d never heard of them much less had one. Fortunately my first experince with them was at the biegnet capitol of US, the original Café du [...]
-250 g (8 0z) lasagna sheets*
-½ cup (75 g/1.5 oz) grated mozzarella
-½ cup (60 g/2 oz) grated cheddar
-½ cup (125 ml/4 fl oz) cream
-3 Tbsp grated parmesan
Cheese Sauce:
-60 g (2 oz) butter
-1/3 cup (40 g/1.25 oz) AP flour
-2 cups (500 ml/16 fl oz) whole milk
-1 cup (125 g/4 oz) grated Cheddar
Meat Sauce:
-1 Tbsp olive oil
-1 [...]
Recipe courtesy Alton Brown
1 loaf day old Italian bread
3 garlic cloves, mashed
9 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
1/4 teaspoon plus 1 pinch kosher salt
2 eggs
2 heads romaine lettuce, inner leaves only
7 grinds black pepper
1 lemon, juiced
6 drops Worcestershire sauce
1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
Heat oven to 350 degrees.
Cut 1/2 to 3/4-inch croutons from the loaf of bread [...]
Pancake Mix:
Recipe courtesy Alton Brown
6 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda (check expiration date first)
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 tablespoon kosher salt
2 tablespoons sugar
Combine all of the ingredients in a lidded container. Shake to mix.
Use the mix within 3 months.
PANCAKES (per cup dry mix):
1 egg, separated
1 cup buttermilk*
2 tablespoons melted butter
1 cup dry pancake mix, [...]
Recipe courtesy Alton Brown2 tablespoons sugar
1 tablespoon kosher salt*
1 tablespoon pure olive oil
3/4 cup warm water
2 cups bread flour (for bread machines)
1 teaspoon instant yeast
2 teaspoons olive oil
Olive oil, for the pizza crust
Flour, for dusting the pizza peel
Toppings:
1 1/2 ounces pizza sauce
1/2 teaspoon each chopped fresh herbs such as thyme, oregano, red pepper flakes, for [...]