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  • InaPickle
    InaPickle Posts: 5,968 Forumite
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    Mmm....food sounds nice. Got a good ciabatta recipe perchance, MG? :)
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  • Firewalker
    Firewalker Posts: 2,682 Forumite
    My FROG did not get eaten either; and it is not that I have not been eating - it turned out to be an elephant in the guise of a frog. So had to divide it into proper eatable ugly frogs.

    But had my eyebrows treaded which is quite a thing.

    Before I forget, tomorrow is an important day for me. Can't get in too much detail here but 'will be talking to a man about a job' - start of conversation at 13.30. Will feel so much better if you could send wishes for positive outcome to the Universe (or Deity of your choice).

    Firewalker
  • Memory_Girl
    Memory_Girl Posts: 4,957 Forumite
    InaPickle wrote: »
    Mmm....food sounds nice. Got a good ciabatta recipe perchance, MG? :)


    I have a wonderful ciabatta recipe ..........

    .................... but it caused great hilarity the last time I posted it and we had a "cook-along-a-thon"

    It is a really really wet dough - so wet you think you have gone wrong somewhere - but makes authentic, oily, fragrant ciabatta with huge holes. Just like it should be.

    Now you need to start this the night before in your breadmaker, so you easy peasy if you menu plan and know you are having italian tomorrow :D

    Into your breadmaker ............................... oven has just pinged, back later

    MG
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  • MrsMoo2U
    MrsMoo2U Posts: 4,005 Forumite
    i have a wonderful ciabatta recipe ..........

    .................... But it caused great hilarity the last time i posted it and we had a "cook-along-a-thon"

    it is a really really wet dough - so wet you think you have gone wrong somewhere - but makes authentic, oily, fragrant ciabatta with huge holes. Just like it should be.

    Now you need to start this the night before in your breadmaker, so you easy peasy if you menu plan and know you are having italian tomorrow :d

    into your breadmaker ............................... Oven has just pinged, back later

    mg



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    Some days there aren't any trumpets, just lots of dragons. Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow -- Mary Anne Radmacher
  • Memory_Girl
    Memory_Girl Posts: 4,957 Forumite
    Sorry hon's - DS2 knows it's his favourite bread and I had to let him have a slice before throwing him through the shower - I swear he has half the garden on him.

    Where were we ?

    CIABATTA BREAD

    This makes two large ciabatta loaves - you need to be around during the morning to make it so I always make 2 loaves as the kids wolf through it and I like to have enough for lunch the next day, brushettsa, garlic toast, toasted sandwich etc.

    DAY 1

    Before bed put 200ml water, 1.5 cups of flour and 0.5tsp yeast in the breadmaker. Set breadmaker to "dough" and run for 5 minutes before turning off and leaving the "biga" (starter) in the breadmaker overnight.

    DAY 2

    At breakfast time (8.30 ish): add the following to the breadmaker

    200ml water
    30 ml milk
    2 tbsp olive oil
    3 cups flour
    1.5tsp salt
    0.5tsp sugar
    0.25 tsp yeast

    Set the breadmaker to "dough" and let it run the cycle.

    At coffee time - 10 ish (when the cycle is finished) tip the dough in to a very large oiled bowl and cover with oiled cling film. Leave to rise for about an hour or until tripled in size.

    At 11 ish: Sprinkle two baking sheets with flour and then using a large oiled spoon or scraper divide the dough into two portions by "pouring" it onto the sheet. Pull it into a roughly "slipper" shaped loaf, about and inch thick. Be very gentle though because you don't want to knock out all the large bubbles forming.

    Sprinkle the tops of the loaves with flour and leave in a warm place for half an hour (the dough will spread and rise)

    At 11.30 ish bake the ciabatta in a preheated oven at 220 for 20 - 30 minutes until golden and risen and sound hollow when you knock them on the bottom.

    Ready to eat when cool enough to handle - but even nicer made in brushetta the next day.

    Mmmmmm- and mine is lush:D

    MG
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  • clairewop
    clairewop Posts: 8,007 Forumite
    I have been very MSE today with my shopping , I have spent £17.88 and got

    2 chicken, sausage and stuffing breast joints, both reduced from £3.98 to £1.67 :)
    Brisket of beef joint reduced to £2.24
    Celery 53p
    Lettuce £1
    Apples £1
    Bananas £1
    Icecream 80p
    choc sauce can't remember how much
    2 packs Salmon trimmings reduced to 39p each
    trout fillet 39p
    2 x pack tomatos 37p each
    gibbons can't remember how much
    sausage rolls reduced to 53p
    fridge raiders x 2 3pk reduced to 53p each

    so quite chuffed with myself, so I'm sat eating a salmon salad with hm potato salad mmmmmmm
    Boiler pot £30.92/£1000
  • claudiac_2
    claudiac_2 Posts: 300 Forumite
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    MG - I am drooling at the brushetta recipe - we will defo be having Italian food this week. Bread is one of my favourite foods, and even more so since I got a bread maker. Have to admit though that so far, my efforts have been 'mixed'. I do a mean pizza, but my bread needs some work! BTW, I only have sachets of yeast, so how much do you reckon I need for the recipe? I am thinking about 2/3 of the sachet on day 1 and the rest next day.
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  • maryb
    maryb Posts: 4,716 Forumite
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    I can vouch for this - I made it and it was yum, better than most of the supermarket ciabatta. You do need quite lively yeast though - the one time mine didn't turn out well was when my yeast was a month or two old and I had noticed that the ordinary loaves in the breadmaker were rising a bit crooked. I can never get through a whole packet of Dove's Farm fast action yeast - I should really buy the sachets
    It doesn't matter if you are a glass half full or half empty sort of person. Keep it topped up! Cheers!
  • Memory_Girl
    Memory_Girl Posts: 4,957 Forumite
    claudiac wrote: »
    MG - I am drooling at the brushetta recipe - we will defo be having Italian food this week. Bread is one of my favourite foods, and even more so since I got a bread maker. Have to admit though that so far, my efforts have been 'mixed'. I do a mean pizza, but my bread needs some work! BTW, I only have sachets of yeast, so how much do you reckon I need for the recipe? I am thinking about 2/3 of the sachet on day 1 and the rest next day.


    Why not tip the contents of your sachet into an egg cup and measure it from there - then you will be certain IYSWIM

    MG
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  • Memory_Girl
    Memory_Girl Posts: 4,957 Forumite
    maryb wrote: »
    I can vouch for this - I made it and it was yum, better than most of the supermarket ciabatta. You do need quite lively yeast though - the one time mine didn't turn out well was when my yeast was a month or two old and I had noticed that the ordinary loaves in the breadmaker were rising a bit crooked. I can never get through a whole packet of Dove's Farm fast action yeast - I should really buy the sachets


    It's really Yum isn't it Maryb.

    Its one of those "I'm so impressed you make that" kind of breads. Of course compared to actually buying a loaf of ciabatta at the supermarket - well lets say it can be made for pennies.

    It's a shame that most people's ambition when they get a breadmaker is to make a "standard white loaf" - when there is a whole world of "artisan" breads to explore.

    I lurve my BM - can you tell?

    MG
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