My Fresh Baked Hoagie/Sub Rolls

Hello, Darlings

Yesterday, I finally received my GE 30" Free-Standing Electric Range in Black from Sears. It took longer than normal to get it, I held on tight to it because back in the first week of June it was on sale for $476.99. Now, if you act fast, you can buy it for $ 485.06; however, keep in mind that on the GE website it is listed as on back order. Therefore, no matter where you buy it, you could be looking at a delivery day between two to six weeks.

Nevertheless, the range arrived in time, and today we are craving Philly Cheese Steak sandwiches made with homemade hoagie rolls. While my bread maker is great for making and baking loaf bread, it will only make the dough for rolls, donuts, French bread and baguettes on the dough setting, so an oven is necessary.

Below is a photo of my fresh baked hoagie/sub rolls for tonight’s dinner. The irregular shape ones are just for eating with any meal. I ate a half of one with an omelet this morning. The recipe is a standard one, but you can use your own.

Until next time,

      Chow, Darlings

 

Bread Maker Raisin Bran Oatmeal Breakfast Bread

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I hope this post finds you with raised spirits on this find hot and humid Friday afternoon. As for me, I am avoiding the heat.

Today, I want to share with you an update on my Kellogg's Honey Hazelnut Raisin Bran Muffins that I posted on April 06, 2016. Click the above link to see and download the recipe.

Anyway, I woke at the ungodly hours of 2A.M., and after tossing and turning for awhile, I got up and decided to try and bake my muffin recipe in a different method.

By this I mean without an oven. I have been waiting on my new range for over a month now, but the company that I bought it from has promised that they will deliver it next week. I hope so, because I have had to pull out nearly every gadget that we own to make proper meals. By using them I have learned some new techniques for cooking meals I would normally use a range to do.

To convert my muffin recipe I substituted the Hazelnut meal for fresh Oatmeal flour. I made it from some regular old fashioned oatmeal in my Instant Pot Ace Plus 10-in-1 Smoothie and Soup Blender a week ago. However, for this recipe with the exception of the raisin bran and the extra cup of raisins, I intermittently blended the remaining ingredients on the Smoothie setting, liquids first followed by dry ingredients. I thought of using my stand mixer but chose the blender instead.

After blending the flour batter well, I poured it into a large mixing bowl and stirred in the raisin bran cereal. Once the cereal was well mixed with the flour batter, I let it sit for about 8 minutes to moisten the cereal.

While the mixture was sitting, I lightly sprayed the baking pan of the bread maker (something I do when baking regular bread as well). After the 8-minutes were up I added the cereal batter to the bread maker (remember we’re still waiting on the new range) on the Sweet setting with a medium crust, and waited for the bread maker to sound the beep for me to add the extra raisins. Once I did this, I went and took a nap.

I must confess that I did worry that attempting to bake the muffins into a breakfast bread using my Hamilton bread maker would be a colossus failure. However, after I woke up two hours later, I found that the bread had baked perfectly and was still warm in the bread maker. It gave off a wonderful smell throughout the house.

I have added the adaptive recipe below for those of you game enough to give it a try.

Until next time (hopefully I will have my new range installed),

Chow, Darlings.

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It’s Bread Making Day in My House

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About a month ago I started baking bread again. I started because finding the types of fresh specialty breads and regular bread that I like was getting dicey. I have run across breads and rolls that were so close to their expiration dates that they molded in less than a week, as oppose to bread bought prior to the pandemic. Moldy bread is unattractive as well as highly unhealthy. Therefore, I pulled out my Hamilton Beach Bread Maker Machine and got to work.

I love my bread machine. I bought it because with my arthritic hands kneading dough was slow and sometime painful, but the machine has allowed me to painlessly prefect my bread making skills, and also yield some very tasty bread products.

I also use the bread machine to create dough for making specialty breads, rolls, pie/pizza crust and donuts in the oven. Today, I made two loaves of breads. The first is my regular weekly loaf of white bread and the second is a loaf of Focaccia bread baked with fresh chopped basil and grated Parmesan cheese. While the Focaccia bread baked in the oven, simultaneously, the white bread baked in the bread maker on the express setting saving a lot of time. Photos below.

Focaccia bread and white bread

 

The top of the Focaccia looks burnt in the photos but it is not. It is just the darkening of the baked cheese and basil. It tastes wonderful.

Both recipes are in the Hamilton Beach Bread Maker Machine recipe book, which can be found online. However, they both call for bread flour, which I find too heavy for most of my breads; so I substitute it with equal measures of unbleached all purpose flour and a teaspoon of vital wheat gluten. I learned that vital wheat gluten helps bread to rise properly.

The breads bake up well with delicate buttery crusts, and are springy with soft tasty centers. I don’t know how long the breads I bake actually last, because after a week I toss out the old loaves and begin again; one regular loaf and one specialty loaf.

Until next time,

Chow, Darlings

Hello, Darlings

Since I was sorting out some files on my computer, I thought I would post this photo of me taken on April 28, 2021. It is one of the photos that sent to my family out of state. 

I really like this outfit. It's classy.

Until next time,

     Chow, Darlings.

Momma Evelyn’s Collard Greens

Hello, Darlings!

I have been under the weather for a short time. Not Covid 19, because I am fully vaccinated for it. It was just a seasonal allergy that went secondary.  Nevertheless, I am fine now.

For months now I have been posting mainly on this website. The reason for it is as you know that I have been working in my garden. That took up a lot a time but I now know that here in Florida I can now maintain the garden all year round.  It should not be a problem, which means I can get back to updating my other websites. These websites are, as if you don’t already know:

A Catholic's Life, Anew

La Création De Moi!

My Anime Nook

Tito's Cavern

Widescreen Anime Links

Widescreen Comic Review

Widescreen Online Review

But enough of this, today I have another recipe. This one is for collard greens. You know how once in a while you can have a brain fart, or god forbid,  a ‘Senior Moment’, well today’s recipe is the results of one of these quaint little phrases. I have been cooking these greens the same way for decades and today I almost added onions, which I never have before. However, I do add an onion to my beans, which has been said to decrease or stop the formation of gas.

I must ask. “Was the person that corned the phrase ‘Senior Moment’ being politically correct? Well, it wasn’t necessary. I mean it, it really, really wasn’t necessary.”

Moving on, here is my very own recipe for cooking greens, especially collard greens the old fashioned way.

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Mommy's Collard Greens Online   

Ingredients

1 large smoked ham hock or 1 cup of chopped ham, or 1 large piece of smoked pork neck bone (A sprinkling of ham flavoring, optional if using smoked pork neck bones.)

Enough collard greens or mustard and turnip greens to fill a 5 to 6 quart Dutch oven

1 1/2 tsp salt

1/2 tsp black pepper

1/4 tsp red pepper flakes

1 tablespoon bacon fat or, olive oil

 

 

Directions

1. Fill Dutch oven 1/3 high with water. Add salt, pepper, red pepper flakes and meat
2. Cook over medium heat to boiling point, add some greens
3. Add more greens as they boil down and until the desire amount is reached. Add additional water if needed.
4. Boil on medium heat for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally
5. After 15 minutes, reduce to medium low for 30 minutes
6. Remove from heat when done

Enjoy.

 

Pot of collard greens with mustard potato salad, rutabaga and pork ribs.

Download recipe here.

 

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Well, that’s it. I first started posting my most common recipes for my children who live apart from me, and who really enjoy my cooking. Now I also see it posting them as well as some the good and unusually ones that I find like from other websites as a way of preserving some the old ways of down home cooking.

 

Here is my, yes, my platter of roaster oven ribs with homemade bread spread with homemade Parmesan/Romano garlic butter.

HAVE A VERY GOOD MEMORIAL DAY!

LOVE TO THOSE WHO SERVE TO PROTECT US AND TO THOSE WHO HAVE FALLEN FOR US.

Until next time,

   Chow, Darlings.