What did you cook or eat today (January 2025)

JAS_OH1 said:
Yes! Mine use sourdough starter discard along with commercial yeast but can be adapted to use without starter. I use a sodium bicarbonate water bath (per the recipe) instead of boiling. Here's the recipe i use and they're delicious.
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Thanks! The baking soda/hot water bath looks a whole lot easier than fishing the dough out of a boiling pot. No sourdough here but I'll make a regular dough.
 
medtran49 said:
It should be a gentle boil, but the last few times I made pretzel rolls, I put them on a rack over a shallow baking dish and spooned the mixture over the rolls.
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That sounds even easier.
As I said, I tried to make some last year and the pretzel shape ended up looking like , well, almost indescribable!
 
karadekoolaid said:
Thanks! The baking soda/hot water bath looks a whole lot easier than fishing the dough out of a boiling pot. No sourdough here but I'll make a regular dough.
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The sourdough gives it a nice flavor but they'll taste great without it.

Shaping pretzels isn't hard but i like making the bites. I can freeze them on parchment paper and transfer to a freezer bag, then pull out how many we want to eat and bathe/bake them.
 
4 things in here were from the garden today.

Some wild rocket which went into the fritatta along with the courgettes but he didn't cook the flower that 2 of them came with :o_o:

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Then all of the red tomatoes and the cucumber were also from the garden. Both deliciously sweet.

Oh and the eggs are or own as well, just not from the veg plot. The chooks don't get to go on there often unless I need them to clear out the insects, slugs and any thing they happen to find in the way of fruit or veg that they like.
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
I never heard or felt anything break when I fell 7 years ago. I took a huge lump of skin out of my knee (old 50p size) right to the bone. I was more concerned about that and infection to appreciate exactly how many broken ribs I actually had. X-ray said a possible 2, but when things didn't settle (and I didn't believe the x-ray figure) I had a bone scan done. Part way through the scan the technician came through and asked me exactly how many broken ribs did they think I had. I told him I thought it close to 6 or 7 going by how many places hurt. He asked us I would allow him to test how good their new machine was, no extra cost. He confirmed 12 breaks across 11 ribs and said it was probable there were actually 13 breaks in total.

On the bright side, it did confirm why I was in so much pain!

Hope you feel better soon.
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Wow that’s a few isn’t it.
I’m aware it’s easy to break something and not know but with the rib cage unless somethings off and flapping about they’re not going to do anything so I’m happy to wait three days.

How long were you sore for? I bet it was some time?!!
 
SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
Wow that’s a few isn’t it.
I’m aware it’s easy to break something and not know but with the rib cage unless somethings off and flapping about they’re not going to do anything so I’m happy to wait three days.

How long were you sore for? I bet it was some time?!!
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About 6 months. I did manage to talk my way out of being in hospital because even at 4 weeks afterwards it was still that sore I needed help getting in to and out of bed. Once I was there I couldn't move at all.
If I do it again though I will agreed to going into hospital because it was so very painful. The floating fracture was the worst. It took well over a year for me to not notice it unless I had a chest infection.

Also it depends on how many you have broken as to what they do, even if it is only helping with the pain. I pretty much detached my sternum from the ribs.
 
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