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Monday, December 26, 2011
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Ciabatta - Italian 'Slipper' Bread For a Great Steak Sandwich
Your'e going to have to try my latest bread - ciabatta. I have to admit, I have tried this before and it was OK. But something was certainly missing. Something was just not right. You know how it is. You can't put your finger on it but you know... this isn't it! Well, I figured it all out yesterday and I want to share the results with you. Ciabatta!
For the uninitiated, ciabatta is a classic Italian peasant bread that requires a pre-fermentation and careful handling. When done right, it emerges from the oven with a hard crust (that softens as it cools) and a soft, slightly chewy, slightly sour, totally yummy interior. It is perfectly suited for sandwiches and in fact, if you were looking for a perfect bread for, say, a steak sandwich, this would be it. Jamie Oliver, in his first book The Naked Chef, has a recipe for maybe the best steak sandwich ever. I mean it! You should have this book just for this recipe! OK, maybe I'm getting over excited because it actually has lots of great recipes. But his choice of bread for the sandwich is none other than the ciabatta.
The word loosely translates from the Italian as 'slipper'. You know the broken-in old house slippers that are so comfortable. Ciabatta originates in the north of Italy, in the Lake Como region. The recipe I am writing about today is actually a combination of two recipes. The methods I used mostly followed those given in The King Arthur Flour Baker's Companion: The All-Purpose Baking Cookbook. I've mentioned this book before because it is so comprehensive. These guys really know their stuff! However, I felt their pre-ferment (called a biga) was too dry. And so I adopted and adapted the formula given by Peter Reinhard in The Bread Baker's Apprentice: Mastering the Art of Extraordinary Bread, which uses a much wetter dough. This recipe will take you all day or overnight but don't worry, most of the time the dough is sitting and going through the fermenting and rising process.
Here's what You'll Need
for the biga (starter)
1/4 teaspoon active dry yeast
1 cup water
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
For the starter, just mix all these ingredients together, cover, and let it sit at room temperature for about 12 hours or overnight.
The next day... add this to the fermented biga. By now it should be bubbly and have slightly sour smell. Also, when you pull at it, it is very stringy (that's our friend the gluten) and very sticky.
1 teaspoon active dry yeast
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
3/4 cups water
1 tbs. olive oil
2 cups all purpose flour
Mix it all together for 3 or 4 minutes in a stand up mixer. The dough is too sticky and stringy to mix by hand, and we want it to stay very 'slack', i.e. wet. After mixing, place it in a lightly oiled bowl turn to coat with the oil, and cover. It should now rise for 2 or 3 hours.
And 45 minutes later...and again...About every 45 minutes, very gently fold the dough to develop the gluten but not to release all the gas. We want the CO2 because it will form those wonderful bubbles when we bake the bread. About 45 minutes before baking, line a baking sheet with parchment paper, and divide the dough in half. Gently, pushing with your fingers, form each half into a rough rectangle shape (the slipper) and leave indentations with your fingers on each loaf. Let it now rise, covered, until bake time.
After folding and relaxing the soft dough for a few hours it is ready to bake. About half an hour before it finishes 'proofing', preheat the oven to 425F (220C). Ten minutes before baking, spray the inside of the oven with water to create a steamy oven. You should also spray a few times during the first 10 minutes of baking. Bake the loaves for a total of 25 minutes. They will be golden brown and have a hard crust.
Turn off the oven. Take the loaves off the tray and place on the oven rack. Then open the door slightly and let the bread cool in the oven. You won't be sorry.
OMG, it's so good! Time for a steak sandwich! Bye for now.
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Saturday, December 3, 2011
Cuisinart GC-17N Griddler Grill Centro 1700-Watt 2-Tier Grill/Griddle with Rotating Skewers
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Presenting a grill that can do it all, all at once! The Griddler Grill Centro features a top tier that converts from a grill to griddle and a bottom tier that automatically rotates skewers at the same time! It's built to last with solid stainless and die-cast construction, yet is easy to clean with removable , dishwasher-safe drip trays. Se get Grilling!
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Saturday, November 26, 2011
George Foreman 14525 4-Portion Family Removable Plates Grill and Melt
www.amazon.co.uk The George Foreman 14525 grill is packed full of features and design details making it one of the most special and impressive grills in the whole range. It's the only George Foreman grill with both the sought after "Removable Plates" and "Grill and Melt" features. Its grill plates are easily removable and dishwasher safe and the additional "Melt" feature enables the top plate to lock open in order to melt toppings on your favourite foods. Like all George Foreman grills, the 14525 cooks over twice as fast as conventional cooking methods and filters away any excess fat and grease in to a separate drip tray. The addition of a digital timer with an audible alarm will give you extra reassurance that your food is cooked to perfection while the brushed steel finish ensures that the stylish 14525 can take pride of place on your kitchen worktop amongst your other appliances.
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Overview of the GR-4N Cuisinart Griddler Grill - Upgraded Version of a Popular Device
The first thing I want to tell you after trying out GR-4N Cuisinart griddler grill for two weeks is the fact that a lot of information about this grill can't be found in the description or manual. I've even had to solve a couple of tricky situations by myself, but besides this, it is a really good piece of kitchen appliance. The cooking plates have anti stick surface; can be flipped, used on both sides and cleaned easily. The device showed itself as a well-balanced machine that is heating up fast, so you can start cooking almost immediately.
Controls are easy to use and you don't need to read the manual every time you accessing the griddler machine. It was a surprise for me that both control knobs on the sides does the same. The left is used to set cooking temperature when working in "Griddle" mode while the right one is setting the heat in "Panini" mode. Why would Cuisinart provide its griddler grill with just one temperature control instead of two? Maybe the answer is that cooking device with a lot of knobs and buttons looks more professional? But the truth is that GR-4N Cuisinart griddler is just a simple kitchen tool with two grilling plates, temperature setting and nothing more.
Because there is a lot of the info missing about the Cuisinart griddler grill, I've had to learn a lot on my own mistakes. I've discovered a lot of interesting facts and I hope you'll find them handy:
actual cooking space is about half an inch smaller from each side than stated in the manual. Keep that in mind when using Cuisinart griddler grill to prepare large stakes the lid pivots are fully adjustable in the area where the handle is attached. This allows you to cook meals with different heights. You can even set it up to cook tall food on one side and the short on the other the minimum space between cooking surfaces is about half of an inch. You can't grill anything thinner than that from both sides simultaneously do not be afraid to get burns from handles as they are made from some sophisticated material that does not heat up the side controls lights up in green at the exact moment when cooking surface reaches the desired temperature when the grilling plates temperature drops for about 20 degrees, green light is being turned off, heat sensor triggers and Cuisinart griddler grill starts heating itself again there are small grease outlets on the sides cooking plate. Those designed to have a tiny slope of a few degrees to let grease flow to the drawer. You have to keep them clean as much as possible, otherwise grease will stay in the cooking area the power cord is about one meter long so keep in mind that you might need to use an extender to reach the electric socket.
I am a curious person, so I've used digital thermometer to measure the temperature of cooking plates. It turns out that Cuisinart griddler grill might not be the best choice for grilling beef, because the surface temperature goes up and down during the cooking time. In the low part of the cycle temperature drops down too much and grilling plates are getting too cold for meat to be fried in best conditions. I guess it is depends on the sensitivity of the thermostat trigger and this may be the feature of the particular griddler grill.
Another bit of information I've got while using thermometer on my GR-4N Cuisinart griddler grill is that there are cold and hot spots all around the grilling plates and the heat distributed not evenly. There experiments forcing me to rate Cuisinart grill with only 75 points out of 100 possible.
Other than a few issues with temperature distribution uncovered with my scientific approach, GR-4N griddler grill is a good kitchen device which I am sure suits fine for cooking a lots of different meals and creative sandwiches.
Monday, November 14, 2011
Cuisinart Paul Bocuse GR 4 Griddler Commercial
The Cuisinart® Griddler® makes "multifunctional" an understatement! With five separate cooking options, it can handle everything from pancakes to sausages to grilled cheese to steaks, hamburgers and panini. A floating cover and one set of reversible plates that snap in and out turn the Griddler® into a Contact Grill, a Panini Press, a Full Grill, a Full Griddle, or Half Grill/Half Griddle. Dual temperature controls ensure everything is perfectly cooked! Learn More: www.cuisinart.com
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