What's cooking today?

[jumanji]

Oh! It'sn't cooking but baking. I baked my first bread today.



God!Isn't it gorgeous, the size I had never seen before - not in the commercially available bread loaf.

The machine: Panasonic SD-ZB2512 - known as the Rolls-Royce of the bread machines. Ordered it on Amazon, France on 11th inst, shipped from Poland, onto Surrey,Great Britain and from there to India on my doorsteps on 24th inst.



Cost of the machine Euro 173.78 but inclusive of shipping and custom duties it is a whopping Euro 312.39, the costliest home appliance in my kitchen. I was only worried after such a long journey whether it will work. If it didn't I would be sunk with no guarantee for the service in India.

With bated breath. I poured all the ingredients into the baking pan and switched on the machine and kept watching as it went through the rest period, then kneading, and then rise period and finally the last step the all important baking. Into 3 hours and 10 minutes it went into baking mode and it was celebration time. What good all the other steps, if it is not getting into bake mode? I kept feeling the stainless steel exterior and made sure it was heating up. And ya, it was getting hotter and hotter and at the end of 50 minutes baking it sounded merrily that it is all over. Took the pan out and tumbled it and out came the mountain of bread. I sighed in relief - everything was working perfectly and dot on time. And then I waited for my grand daughter to slice it.

One great suspense was over.

( Me and my wife do not eat bread as a routine but my granddaughter takes toasted store bought whole wheat bread daily, sandwiched with some filling. I just tasted it one day and it was horrible. Now no more store bought rubbish. I shall try whole wheat bread tomorrow.)

 

[ThrashZone]

Cooling
A lot of bread for bread lol

Are you looking to start a new business

 

[Layback Bear]

A log time ago I made my own bread with a maker. I forgot the brand but I do remember the great smell while the bread was baking.

Another plus is your granddaughter will remember grandpa and grandma every day she has the homemade bread.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

It's hard to beat fresh baked bread that's still warm enough to melt butter, even without the butter. I've thought about getting a bread maker but I don't really have a place to put it plus I don't eat all that much bread.

 

[jumanji]

The World's Best Juicer

And after the Bread machine, I was looking for a Juicer and looking for the best one I could afford and then came across this:



Though I had the same views until years ago, did that stop my pursuit? Hmmm.... wise counsel never prevails.

And so .....

Suggestions invited for the best commercially available fruit juicers. Let me see how many people have researched into this or if there is an avid juicer here.

 

[Layback Bear]

Very good video jumanji.
I have never owned a juicer so I can't recommend one.

I do believe that depending to much on a juicer will not give some the proper amounts of fiber. The pulp of eating whole foods contain fiber which us old folks need.

What I try to do is use the old food group wheel that was taught in school Health class years ago. It show to eat foods from each group of foods in moderation.

 

[xips]

Using a Ninja juicer here. It ranks high with Consumer Reports. I've had my Ninja for 3 years now with no complaints. They have a lot of different models available now too.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

I use the food pyramid...one made of chocolate stacked high.

 

[jumanji]

The chicken said ........

What did the chicken say when it crossed the road??

The chicken said "“cluck, cluck, cluck, CLUCKAAAAAWWWWK! Don't put me on the grill. CLUCKAAAAAWWWWK! ”

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

What did the chicken say when it crossed the road??

The chicken said "“cluck, cluck, cluck, CLUCKAAAAAWWWWK! Don't put me on the grill. CLUCKAAAAAWWWWK! ”

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Read my sig.

 

[Alejandro85]

I use the food pyramid...one made of chocolate stacked high.

 

[jumanji]

..........Read my sig.

That inspired my post#9. ( aka Take heart, that question was copy and paste from your signature. )

 

[Layback Bear]

Sorry to upset the wheelbarrow folks. Chickens can talk, quite well as a mater of something.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

LOL! True that but, unlike normal chickens that can't talk, he couldn't shut up. He was about as sharp as a bowling ball.

 

[jumanji]

Yes, chickens talk

Chicken Talk
Researchers have shown that there are at least 24 different sounds chickens make and maybe as many as 30. While chickens don’t have nearly the vocabulary that us humans have, and their chicken brains don’t allow for abstract and deep conversations, they are still a very vocal and conversational critter. And if you pay attention, you can learn to understand and speak their language too.
Baby Talk
Pleasure peep-A soft, irregular chirp that says “I’m here and all is well.”
Pleasure trill-A soft warbling sound often used when settling down for a nap that says “Life is good.”
Distress peep-A loud, sharp tweet that says “I’m so miserable!” Usually due to being hot, cold or hungry.
Panic peep-Loud and insistent peep that says “Help me!”
Fear trill-Loud, sharp repeated sound that says “Don’t hurt me!”
Startled peep-Sharp chirp that sounds as startled as it is meant to be. It says “Whoa!”
More .... 26 Sounds that Chickens Make and What they Mean - Flip Flop Ranch

What did the chicken say when it crossed the road??

No question. Don't allow the chicken to walk and talk. Nip it in the bud - nay, egg .



I routinely boil four eggs in the Severin egg boiler, put it in the fridge inside an airtight container with the shell.. Keeps for a week but usually gets over in three days. (This photo was not specially made for this post.) It so happened that it happened today, since the container was empty..

And below, not cooked but clicked.



My granddaughter