I had a rather productive day in the kitchen today, using 3 recipes from 2 different books by Rose Levy Beranbaum, plus one off her website. 🙂 I started out by putting together a batch of Rose’s favourite flaky & tender pie crust. I’d never made this before, since the Pie & Pastry Bible is the only one of Rose’s “heavenly” books that I don’t own, but I saw some mention of the recipe somewhere and decided to try it. I think it may have been in one of Rose’s youtube postings. Jay has chicken pot pie on the menu for later this week, so he needed me to put together the shells. I have to say, the method for bringing together the dough worked really well. Better (and with less liquid) than a lot of pastry recipes I’ve used in the past. The latex gloves are an inspired technique. Once that was resting in the fridge, I started a batch of pizza dough, from The Bread Bible. Left that to rest on the counter, while I put together the sponge & flour mixture for the Golden Semolina Torpedo. By now, the pastry dough had its requisite 45 minutes in the fridge to hydrate, so I pulled that out, rolled it out into the dishes for the pot pies, and stashed them in the freezer. Jay hates rolling out doughs, so that’s the least I can do to help with supper. He does the cooking, I do the baking, so something like a pot pie is a joint effort. 😉
At this point, Jay wanted the use of the kitchen for a bit (more about that later), so I used that time to put together my mise en place for the Baby Chocolate Oblivions, which are this week’s cake in the Heavenly Bakers group. I decided to go with the milk chocolate variation, partly because I happened to have a large amount of milk chocolate in the freezer, and I’m running low on dark.
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