Breakfast Links Make Adjustments
September 27, 2008
I’m out of town for the weekend so the links are truncated (only the blogs I got through by the end of Thursday night).
One change though for Cooking 101: the next few posts are for food identification, meat, poultry, fruit, veggies, etc., but these are huge topics. I’ve decided to start a post for each chapter and update the post with links to smaller posts with more detail that I write over time. Single posts with barely any depth are not very useful, so these chapters will be works in progress. These posts will go through Unit 12, leaving me with just Unit 13: Mise en Place before I get to cook! I am excited about this – the non-cooking posts got a bit boring. First up? Stocks!
I hope this format will work better for you (it should provide for more useful and pleasant reading in shorter, deeper posts), and it certainly will for me. Links? Links.
Recipe of the Week(s) – This isn’t technically a recipe, but it’s the thing I want to eat most: fried oreos. Go here to A Taste of Rome, NY at Mrs. W’s Kitchen and scroll down to the second to last paragraph (and the last picture). I must find one – my arteries are flowing too freely.
Links:
- Jill at Simple Daily Recipes made champion cookie truffles. I love chocolate, so these look pretty incredible.
- Start Cooking has a useful how-to on braising. I also wrote a post on braising.
- Peter at Kalofagas made Greeked-Up Jalapeno Poppers. It looks like a great creation and I learned about a new food: pastourma.
Have a great weekend!
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September 29th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
Andy–thanks again so much for the link! I cannot recommend those fried oreos enough. These are a must try! In case you can’t find them before you give this a shot at home, I’ll tell you what I know.
The woman told me that the batter was homemade funnel cake batter. As I watched those babies fry in a cast iron pot, I thought they went way too slowly. I asked if the oil was hot enough, and she explained that it had to be cooked slowly–lower than 375 (the usual deep-fry temperature). If you fry them at 375 they’ll burn very quickly. In spite of the low deep-fry temp (she didn’t reveal the temp) they were not at all greasy. Go figure!
September 30th, 2008 at 7:49 am
Thanks for the tip! I’ll definitely have to try them the next time I fry something.