Poll of the Day > I have a very ambitious menu to cook today

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6lb prime rib with Horseradish sour cream sauce
Mashed potato casserole
Green bean casserole
Homemade buns
Apple spice cake with cream cheese frosting

I've never cooked prime rib or homemade buns or the cake before. So we'll see how this goes. Wish me luck! >_>

yay~! Gooluck

nice to see you're still around here, Jen

I've got a choice beef roast I'm cooking. I'm terrible with beef, so i started to marinade it yesterday so that it at least comes out tender tomorrow.

I love green bean casserole

I was on dessert duty this year and whipped up some homemade peppermint patties and they're insanely easy to make. Like 4 ingredients and no baking

JanwayDaahl posted...

nice to see you're still around here, Jen

I'm sure that's sarcasm lmao

pedro45 posted...

I've got a choice beef roast I'm cooking. I'm terrible with beef, so i started to marinade it yesterday so that it at least comes out tender tomorrow.

I hope you get good results!!

Far-Queue posted...

I love green bean casserole

I was on dessert duty this year and whipped up some homemade peppermint patties and they're insanely easy to make. Like 4 ingredients and no baking

Me too and I only eat it during the holidays so I'm really excited.

I've got my bread dough doing first proof. I hope it comes out well I've never made my own buns before except the ones I grew on my body HEHE anyways I also have the dessert cake baking now so it'll be nice and cool tonight for me to frost it

What is the interior for the peppermint pattie? Peppermint and some type of powder sugar frosting?

Far-Queue posted...

I was on dessert duty this year and whipped up some homemade peppermint patties and they're insanely easy to make. Like 4 ingredients and no baking

I did that for a gift last year. They were pretty fantastic, and as you said, stupidly easy to make (just condensed milk, icing sugar, and peppermint extract, then dipped in melted chocolate mixed with butter so I could skip tempering). I've been saying for years that I want to try making my own girl guide thin mints (a patty recipe like that, a basic chocolate wafer, then dipped in chocolate with a bit of peppermint extract added), but I've never actually gotten around to doing so and last year was my first time trying to make the patties.

Jen0125 posted...

What is the interior for the peppermint pattie? Peppermint and some type of powder sugar frosting?

This is the recipe I used:
https://www.dinneratthezoo.com/peppermint-patties-recipe/

Only with baking chocolate instead of chips because I had it handy, and butter instead of shortening because shortening is nasty.

adjl posted...

I did that for a gift last year. They were pretty fantastic, and as you said, stupidly easy to make (just condensed milk, icing sugar, and peppermint extract, then dipped in melted chocolate mixed with butter so I could skip tempering). I've been saying for years that I want to try making my own girl guide thin mints (a patty recipe like that, a basic chocolate wafer, then dipped in chocolate with a bit of peppermint extract added), but I've never actually gotten around to doing so and last year was my first time trying to make the patties.

Would you do a soft cookie or the original crunchy type cookie? If you made them at home?

I'd go for something crunchy. A soft cookie could also work, but if I went that route I'd probably just make sandwiches instead of dipping them, and might go for a double chocolate cookie. I've got a chewy double chocolate cookie recipe that I like using for sandwiches, particularly with homemade marshmallow fluff (which is just an Italian meringue). The phrase "double chocolate marshmallow sandwich cookies" tends to get people pretty excited >.>

This is the recipe:

3/4 cup sweetened condensed milk
3 1/2 cups powdered sugar
1 1/2 tsp peppermint extract

Knead that into a firm dough, shouldn't be sticky. Roll 1 inch balls to make patties on top of some wax paper. Let the patties dry an hour, turn them and dry them another hour. Melt some chocolate and dip them then stick them in the fridge to firm up. You can do a second coat of chocolate but I didn't need to.

Wicked easy.

I've never made prime rib w/ horseradish sauce I need to try that some day. Bet your house smells amazing today

adjl ninja'd me but yeah super simple recipe And I didn't use butter I used coconut oil because just like adjl I find shortening to be gross

Should have had an ambiguous menu instead

adjl posted...

I'd go for something crunchy. A soft cookie could also work, but if I went that route I'd probably just make sandwiches instead of dipping them, and might go for a double chocolate cookie. I've got a chewy double chocolate cookie recipe that I like using for sandwiches, particularly with homemade marshmallow fluff (which is just an Italian meringue). The phrase "double chocolate marshmallow sandwich cookies" tends to get people pretty excited >.>

yeah if you like chocolate that sounds really good. i'm not a huge chocolate dessert person in general but i've been trying to be more open minded. a lot of chocolate flavors mixed together to me is sometimes a bit much.

Far-Queue posted...

adjl ninja'd me but yeah super simple recipe And I didn't use butter I used coconut oil because just like adjl I find shortening to be gross

yeah shortening in something uncooked would be a no go for me. shortening has a good flavor if you're literally making shortening cookies and baking them but that's about it. when i was little i snuck a spoonful of crisco once because i was really curious how it tasted. it was an interesting experience lol

Alternatively, you can skip adding fat to the chocolate, but then you either have to temper it (which is quite a bit of extra work) or it'll start blooming (getting those light patches you sometimes see on chocolate) in a couple days. Neither are particularly attractive compared to adding a couple teaspoons of a fat, so here we are.

my dough definitely did not have enough flour so i remade it. now i'm afraid i put too much flour. but that's part of learning how to bake! i made a goal when i was able to move back into my house to learn to bake and cook more foods so this is part of honoring that.

If you can find recipes that use weight measures instead of volume (and you have a scale), I might suggest trying to learn with those. Depending on how hard you scoop, a cup of flour can weigh anywhere from 4 to 6 ounces, which is a huge variance that is easily enough to screw up whatever you're making if you don't account for it. There's still always going to be some intuition involved in bread making because the current temperature and humidity will affect how much flour you need, but if you can at least be certain that you've put in the amount the recipe called for, that makes adjusting easier.

Also, it will often seem like your dough is too sticky when you start kneading, but resist the urge to dump a bunch of extra flour in to fix that. As you develop the gluten, it'll become less sticky, so you only need to add the bare minimum to actually be able to work with the dough. A common beginner mistake is to underestimate how much kneading will bring the dough together, so watch out for that.

Thanks for the tips!

Here's how my buns came out

https://i.imgur.com/nMt1hW9.jpeg
https://i.imgur.com/XHI7TB3.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/knGRGRW.jpeg

Here is the apple spice cake with cream cheese frosting

That cake looks delicious

Buns look good

LinkPizza posted...

That cake looks delicious

It's made with a puree of reduced granny smith apple and apple cider. I'm interested to see how it tastes because it's very dense. It also has walnuts and golden raisins in the cake.

https://i.imgur.com/o5B6vq1.jpeg

Here is the finished plate

Jen0125 posted...

It's made with a puree of reduced granny smith apple and apple cider. I'm interested to see how it tastes because it's very dense. It also has walnuts and golden raisins in the cake.

That sounds amazing. It should have some sourness to it too.

Revelation34 posted...

That sounds amazing. It should have some sourness to it too.

To be honest I was disappointed with the recipe. The way it baked was not ideal. One complaint in the reviews has to do with how wet the batter is because of the puree. I tried to cook down my apple cider more than 1/2 way like the recipe called for. But it was still too wet so the outside cooked super hard and the inside took forever and is very dense. The flavor of the cake in the middle was very good so I'd love to try to make this again when I've learned more about baking so I can try to get it the bake better.

Jen0125 posted...

To be honest I was disappointed with the recipe. The way it baked was not ideal. One complaint in the reviews has to do with how wet the batter is because of the puree. I tried to cook down my apple cider more than 1/2 way like the recipe called for. But it was still too wet so the outside cooked super hard and the inside took forever and is very dense. The flavor of the cake in the middle was very good so I'd love to try to make this again when I've learned more about baking so I can try to get it the bake better.

I'm terrible at cooking. I just tend to wing everything. Plus for me personally I REALLY like everything to be over spiced so I could really only ever cook for myself.

That sounds like a tasty menu.

How spicy was the horseradish sour cream?

I'm cooking eggs.

Hey Jen what's your Steam, I wanna send something

ZangsBeard posted...

That sounds like a tasty menu.

How spicy was the horseradish sour cream?

It was really good. It was sour cream, a lil mayo, a tiny bit of apple cider vinegar, salt/pepper and two heaping tbsp of prepared Horseradish.

Lokarin posted...

Hey Jen what's your Steam, I wanna send something

It's SailorJenny

darn it... I tried to gift you something but steam is like "Due to Regional Differences" blah blah blah...

So... uhhh... here's what I woulda sent you

https://store.steampowered.com/app/341020/Chronicles_of_Teddy/

Lokarin posted...

darn it... I tried to gift you something but steam is like "Due to Regional Differences" blah blah blah...

So... uhhh... here's what I woulda sent you

https://store.steampowered.com/app/341020/Chronicles_of_Teddy/

Aw that is really sweet and funny. Thanks for the thought!!

Jen0125 posted...

It was really good. It was sour cream, a lil mayo, a tiny bit of apple cider vinegar, salt/pepper and two heaping tbsp of prepared Horseradish.

Yummy.