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[copperbadge]

Recently a friend of mine told me that one of our local bagel places, Chicago Bagel & Bialy, was also serving pizza, made with their bialy dough. Bialy dough isn't all that far from pizza dough to begin with, but I misheard him and thought they were somehow serving pizza with a bagel-dough crust. I spent days wondering about the logistics. Bagel dough has to be boiled before being baked, and obviously you can't boil a pizza. Did they steam it before baking? Did they just not bother with the boiling step?

Anyway, I decided to try my hand at "bagel pizza poppers" which are balls of bagel stuffed with a mixture of sauce, mozzarella cheese, and "toppings". I made a batch of King Arthur Sandwich Bagel dough, then added some food coloring while kneading in order to color-code by filling -- red for pepperoni, green for sauteed mushroom, yellow for caramelized onion. I split the dough by weight, hand-stretched each piece and stuffed it with a spoonful of filling, then sealed, boiled, and baked.

They came out really, really nicely -- basically they taste like Hot Pockets look like they should taste, and they still have that nice chewy exterior. A few of them burst during baking, but the filling mostly stayed inside, and they reheat well in the microwave or oven.

[ID: Two images of the pizza bagel poppers. On the left they are not yet cooked, sitting on quarter-sheet pans sprinkled with cornmeal; there are six red ones, six green ones, and five yellow ones (I dropped a yellow one). On the right, they are visible after baking; they have slight browning on top, and the nearest one in the photograph, a green one, has split open slightly to show a mixture of sauce, cheese, and sauteed mushrooms inside.]

[petermorwood]

Here’s that herb bread from yesterday, sliced and buttered.

It’s far more cheesy than herby so the herb content will need stepped up. This is an interesting effect, since dried herbs are usually more emphatic than fresh ones. Also, even after overnight in a bread bag, the crust remains more assertive than we like.

So today DD is making a Second Draft loaf, with increased herbs (more tarragon, more basil), a bit more liquid so the dough isn’t as dense, and shaped a bit thinner. The baking time will also be about 10 minutes shorter. Most of this should produce a less armoured crust.

And, after saying all that, the First Draft bread is still very good; I have a feeling it’s going to make great toast, just the thing for even more cheese on top, or maybe some cold cuts (memo, check freezer for salami or some sliced roast beast.)

I also suspect it’ll be great toasted and well-buttered alongside a bowl of nice hearty February-weather soup, like the sausage-goulash soup with peppers & sour cream I made a couple of weeks back; recipe for that queued for later today.

*****

ETA: Second Draft loaves, just out of the oven - the baguette was baked on a baguette tray (duh) and the ammonite was baked in a cast-iron pot.

They smell great, and both have a lot more give, suggesting they’ve got a proper crust instead of an armoured carapace - even though that would be entirely right and proper for the ammonite...

[crabsnpersimmons]

Hey there. I’m back again.

Just wanted to say that I really love your art and sorry that didn’t mention it before, I love your au’s and your art style.

I’M GOING TO EAT ALL OF IT.

Anyway, here mooncake, Would you like a flower?

awwwe thank you so much friend! i'm glad you're enjoying the au! 🥰

and here's Moon's response:

Moon: ough! a flower for me? you’re so nice! thank you thank you!!

Moon: (notices your account name) or or or!! do you like maple syrup? i can make maple cookies! oh! or maple candy! oh oh! what about maple madeleines? that sounds yummy too!

[bunabi]

bread update: I am using a broom handle as a rolling pin, I fucked up my yeast measurement, somehow croissants appeared

[notbecauseofvictories]

lostimist replied to your post “I challenged myself to make cookies for the office...”

ok if it's not a hassle do you have the savory cheddar shortbread recipe to hand? that sounds really good esp if freezable!

Well, first of all, pretty much all dough is freezable! Regular cookie dough, pie dough, puff pastry, pizza dough, bread dough...but “ice box” cookies like shortbread freeze especially well and can last up to three months in the back of your freezer, which makes them especially good for holiday celebrations.

INGREDIENTS

1 cup all-purpose flour

1/2 cup butter, room temperature (if you’re using salted butter, you can omit or adjust the salt below)

1/2 teaspoon salt

Herbs and shredded cheese, to taste---get creative! I used a combination of crushed red pepper, dill, and colby jack, but the possibilities are limitless. Cheddar and rosemary! Mozzarella and basil! Pepper jack and oregano! Parmesan and ranch powder! I recommend sticking to harder cheeses; something like feta or ricotta will throw off the texture. Also, dried herbs work best in my experience, but you can use fresh too!

DIRECTIONS

On medium speed, using a handheld or stand mixer, cream together flour, butter, salt, and herbs until they form a soft dough.

On low speed, mix in cheese and any other add-ins.

Shape into a log, and wrap snugly in plastic wrap. Chill in the fridge for 2+ hours. (If freezing, chill two hours then transfer from fridge to freezer.)

When ready to make, slice log into medallions. If desired, you can brush the slices with a simple egg wash and sprinkle with salt, sesame or poppy seeds, according to taste.

Bake at 350F for 12-13 minutes (...ish. it will depend on the size of the log and how thinly you slice it.) Edges should be golden brown, and the middle slightly soft-looking. Let cool for 5 minutes on the cookie sheet before moving to a cooling rack.

NOTE: if working from frozen dough, thaw in the fridge overnight before slicing and baking.

[scrivenger-grimgar]

BNHA x DGR because I’m mentally ill ✨

Izuku would be the ultimate analyst and he’s like 11 when he’s scouted and accepted into HPA’s class 77 (SDR:2), but he still desperately wants to be a hero so he’ll constantly seek out Akane and Nekomaru and be like “teach me to fight” and they’re like “holy SHIT he’s terrifying let’s do it” so they become friends, and later he approaches Peko and is like “fight me” and Peko finds this both deeply unsettling and also accepts that the request immediately. Fuyuhiko is very happy that she’s making friends!

They become the Fight Club and it’s essentially an underground fighting ring except above ground and you aren’t allowed to kill or maim people (psychological warfare is very much allowed however).

In that first year Chiaki befriends Hajime, and Hajime is forcefully befriended by Izuku and the two drag him into class 77 until they collectively see him as a friend (barring Nagito). But Hajime is going thru it and thinks that they don’t think he’s a friend, and this ultimately leads to him considering the Hope Cultivation Program. He gets kidnapped by his career councillor near the end of the year and is officially expelled from HPA. He later goes missing. For a year.

Izuku is super fucking sus bc he’s not an idiot and has obviously noticed tha something fucky is going on with the school (finances are skewed, funding is disappearing into somewhere, high ranking people visiting the school too often when they don’t have any relatives attending, stockholders buying and selling at increasing rates, leery of heroes and police, monitoring students more than usual, extreme security increases; Izuku smiles and nods and ciphers everything down through multiple different scripts with missing keys that no one has solved, and very carefully does not react. He searches for the Rat’s encrypted email for 6 months because he still wants to be a hero.)

When he sneaks through the ventilation and finds that lab and finds the one in the lab. That changes things.

After the first year’s sports festival, there is a four day break.

When Izuru finally meets the vent crawler in person he feels something other that anger, hatred, or fondness, that he can’t identify; it’s not from the still sleeping Hajime. Emotion is not something so easily removed from someone who feels so strongly. The scientists don’t know what exactly happened to some of the talents they tried to instill in him and he would never tell them that it was his other half who had received them.

The hero raid on Hokkaido’s Hope’s Peak Academy is largely missed by the media, if only due to the fact that the school is largely made up the quirkless.

In other news UA’s first year classes now have new classmates. As do some other hero schools. Wonder what that’s all about…

(UA gets class 77, Aizawa gets Izuku, Izuru, and Hajime, Sekijiro gets Peko, Akane, and Nekomaru, 1C gets Nagito, Chiaki, and Ibuki, etc.)

[arcann]

To me da2 is deeply centrist the way victims are punished in a vitriolic and morbid way while characters like Aveline and Cullen are unopposedly good. If you see it as leftist media that's because it does present clearly leftist characters but it won't waste time in putting them in the most cruel and humiliating situations or throw them against characters who should have a more benevolent opinion of each other for the sake of "banter". There's still people in the fandom who think Anders is the absolute worst when the very same game has the templars growing a slave ring of lobotomized kidnappees with teenagers or that Cullen and Aveline are lawful good when they are never challenged for the decisions they made which had tremendous collateral damage.

You can enslave Fenris but you can't do anything similar to Cullen. Orsino WILL die as a monster trying to kill Hawke but Elthina died a martyr. You can antagonize Anders the whole game and murder him but you can't do that to Aveline. Hell, Aveline's mourning of Wesley is treated as a tragedy to be respectful towards while Anders' mourning of Karl is hidden from a female Hawke due to biphobia and homophobia and rarely discussed even if it's incredibly relevant as another lever to humanize Anders and villify the circle. You see every outrageous opinion coming from da2 fans and it's because they choose the options that don't deny any of their values. They can do that too. Gaider and kristjanson and hepler let you support those leftist characters but you can also visciously humiliate and murder them. Meanwhile the more "tame" characters who support the system achieve a happy ending no matter your choices. They only defied the corrupt system they thrived in once it came at them with a gigantic brainwashing sword and a legion of colossal statues trying to crush them. That, and only that, was too much for them. And they're awarded for having such lousy limits.

In inquisition Hawke can't say anything outright good about Anders even while romanced, Fenris is confirmed to be alone by Blue Wraith, Merrill is in no side content post-da2. Meanwhile, Aveline is still working on the same position with tremendous power when we saw her fail and blunder several times over the years and you really have to be a manipulative and ableist piece of shit to Cullen for him to get a bad ending and guess what? The game WILL guilt trip you for it. Adding to that, Varric, the appointed voice of Dragon Age as a series and new viscount of Kirkwall has absolutely nothing good to say about Anders and is ok with the inquisition supporting the templars freely after everything he knew they did IN HIS OWN CITY. A leftist game wouldn't have this bias. A centrist game would, in the end, let characters who don't side for or against the suffering of others in an established system until it personally affects them, who aren't "risky" and have nothing to say that could, even accidentally, reflect badly in our very real system, be rewarded with the better endings.

[abigailspinach]

[reitziluz]

if these brownies get fucked up i'm baking another trusted recipe this weekend.

it's so hard to estimate if they're done because they've formed a shattering levels of crispy top. when i do the stick test it leaves behind a hole as if ice had cracked under someone and plunged them into a lake.

[schlushiii]

Random thought but. To go along with the headcanons people have of Ingo having a sweet tooth I feel like he’s the better baker while Emmets the better cook between the two?

Idk just a thought

[honeycombhank]

9/11/23

I haven’t done any baking in quite a long time so today I decided I would make something sweet..

I couldn’t decide between a cobbler or a crisp..

So I decided to experiment using both kinds of toppings!

I used two different recipes and made a cobbler biscuit topping and then a crisp topping from another recipe that is more oaty and used cinnamon as well.

I’m really proud of how it came out!

Blackberry, Raspberry and Peach cobbler/crisp haha

[clownattack]

gorsh

im currently failing sm to focus bcs im just overcome with the thought of MAYBE being able to pick up my funny clay corpse from uni furnace tomorrow. LIKE IM NOT IN A RUSH AT ALL but i want them back and thinking abt this disables me from doing typography for my catalogue augh. I want to assemble my hot transi gf and take pics so i can DO MORE TYPOGRAPHY

[asinglesock]

I made red bean paste earlier today and I was going to use it as a filling for steamed buns as my bread recipe of the week, but now I don't feel like starting another project

[cmweller]

This is one of the things I do when I'm not writing.

[thestudentfarmer]

Hey hey everyone~

Update post!

Nothing yet on the lentils but the soil is a bit dry and it's been cold so not entirelys ure they will even sprout.

The peas are starting to have some flowers! :D

The carrots are doing fine, soon I'm gonna start thinning them out and saving a few to get the next generation of seeds :)

The pumpkins are really holding on, I'm gonna just wait to pull them for now as I'm very curious if they'll finish ripening up. The plant looks pretty bad though right now :(

The paperwhites bloomed beautifully this year :) I think this year I will be digging them all up and spreading them about, Same as the other flowers in this mess of mint and flowers

And last for now, some kale I grew primarily for seed collection and deco, the cage is repurposed from an old rabbit cage and is there to keep the ferals from using the pot as a litter box.

I also made my first go at sourdough! Once I'm a little more used to making it and know it's consistant I'll be posting about it in more detail :)

Anyways that's it for now everyone :)

🌱🍞 Happy Gardening and homesteading everyone! 🍞🌱

[strawberrycrepes]

Experimenting with another sourdough recipe