Curing meat, day 2 I cleaned the salt dried the meat with paper towels. One of them I made with a generous quantity of sweet paprika, well "massaged". The other one, with a mix of herbs and spices (herbes provençale, cumin, dried basil, freshly ground black pepper, some dried chilli, etc.) and some fresh rosemary. Pack them, 3 weeks in the fridge, and I'll present the final product when it's ready. View quoted note →

Sourdough, final day Now we need the dough, a scraper, a clean cloth, a bowl, and some extra flour. 12 hours later, I dusted some flour over the dough and some over the cloth. I pushed the edge down with a scraper and flipped it over the cloth. I shaped it round, placed it in the bowl to help maintain the shape, covered it, and set it in a warm place for 2 hours. At least 30 minutes before the next step, we'll preheat the oven to 230°C. Inside, we'll put water in a heat-resistant recipient because we'll need the water vapour in the first 15 minutes of baking. View quoted note →

I said yesterday something about curing meat so here I am. I had two pieces of pork tenderloin, about 1,1 kg in total, gave them a wash, and cleaned a few pieces with a knife. After that, I dried them a bit with some paper towels and buried them in almost 2 kg of salt. I will leave them for 12 hours in the fridge and continue tomorrow morning, this is mostly for PoW.

Sourdough bread, day 2 Yesterday I made the starter and today I prepared the dough for tomorrow. Since it needs 12 to 18 hours to develop, I usually make it in the evening. Here we go with a simple bread recipe: We need 100g of yesterday's starter. (We put back 50g of water and 50g of flour, mix it, and put it back in the fridge.) We put the starter in 250g of lukewarm water and mix it for about a minute, until it dissolves. We add 400g of white flour and 8g of salt. We mix everything with a fork for another minute, until there's no dry flour to be seen. Cover the bowl with a plate and put it somewhere warm (not next to doors or windows, preferably somewhere up). That's it. Since I made it at 8 in the evening, I'll take care of the bread tomorrow between 8 in the morning and 2 in the afternoon. Tomorrow evening, or the day after tomorrow, I'll make a different recipe, with a mix of regular white flour and whole grain flour. View quoted note →

My Winter Edition Limoncello goes just right. 🥃 View quoted note →

It doesn't look awesome, but hearty soups are great after long days of ass freezing.

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Sourdough can be simple. Normally, it takes 10 to 14 days to get your starter going, but it can be kick-started with 1% dry yeast, and you can have it the next day. I saw some jars with poolish (you can find it under many names) for €9,90, and I laughed a little. I'm a bit sick of this "it's so complicated" attitude which exists only to make people pay a lot of money for next to nothing. Not everyone has a lot of free time so here's the easy way. We'll start with 100 grams of water, 100 grams of white flour, and 2 grams of dry yeast (or 1/3 of a 7g satchel, in case your scale isn't in its best shape, or 1/3 of a 25g pack of regular yeast). You can go with a larger quantity, but you need to keep the 1% proportion. [2g yeast for 200g (100g flour 100g water)] Mix them together in a casserole, or anything with a lid, and put it overnight in the fridge. You can use it even after a few days, no worries, so it won't get bad for up to 2 weeks. Tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow, we'll use 100 grams of this polish to make bread, and we'll put back 50g of water with 50g of flour (no more yeast from now on), and you can use this starter for years. Stay tuned! (I would have posted it at a later date, but here we use PoW.)

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Good morning, Nostr! More like afternoon... My contributing shitpost for today is that I'll begin curing some meat tomorrow. It's simple, and people should know how to do it. Eating healthy is actually cheaper and most of the food industry is over hyped crap. And I'll make some homemade liquor because we're a nation of booze enjoyers. 😂 Have a fine day!

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