Month: February 2020

Garlic, Herb and Cheese bread

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Earlier this week, I made a garlic, herb, and cheese bread.

No, it’s not vegan. I mainly made it for my father, however, my daughter had a few slices of the bread. It received rave reviews from my parents and daughter.

I started making the bread shortly after I arrived home from work Monday evening.

I let it proof overnight and it rose a lot! I then laid it out on one of my silicone mats

and kneaded it into the desired shape.

I then placed it in one of my bread pans and placed it into the oven for about 45 minutes. This weekend my daughter wants to make hot cross buns and I’d like to make either an onion bread or potato bread. Since it’s been years since I’ve actively baked bread, I’ll be keeping the breadmaking simple, before I attempt to make more elaborate creations. I’m enjoying the journey, I’ve always enjoyed creating with dough.

Tuesday evening, my daughter and I made bigoli pasta. I’ll be posting those pictures late this week.

 

 

Homemade Fettucine

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This past Tuesday, my daughter and I made homemade fettuccine.

 

We made about three pounds of the noodles. I’ve made homemade pasta several times, however, this was the first time for her. She enjoyed the entire process from combining the basic ingredients; all-purpose flour, eggs, and water that was formed into a ball and set aside for thirty minutes.

We then cut the dough ball into smaller sections and proceeded to roll the dough through my Marcato pasta machine.

 

We started at #1 setting and rolled it through that setting twice, we then moved on to #2 (rolling twice), and continued until #6. We rolled the pasta at this setting and then set the dough aside. We were ready to make noodles.

The dough sheets were cut to typical noodle length; however, the last dough sheet that was rolled, she kept it long (as seen in the above photo).

I must say that the fettuccine noodles that my daughter prepared turned out really great. 

And it didn’t take long to cook the noodles since they were fresh, it might have taken four minutes. The photo above is the super long noodles that my daughter created. If you’re a slurper, you’d be slurping a noodle for a while!

We didn’t have semolina flour, but since I’ve made pasta before, I know that we could use that as a replacement, however, I will be ordering semolina flour soon! Initially, my daughter wanted to make udon noodles, however, the Marcato pasta machine that I have did not have that attachment included. After additional research, I DID find the attachment that is very similar to udon noodles and I’ll be ordering that for my daughter.

 

I’m now using WordPress Classic Editor

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A few years ago, WordPress made changes to the admin control panel. I wasn’t liking the change at all and resorted to other mediums to occasionally publish my thoughts, crafts, food exploration. Yesterday, I wondered, “If I hate the current layout, I bet others do also.” I searched and found the Classic Editor for WordPress. It’s maintained by the WordPress team. According to the download page, over 5 million have installed it. You can download Classic Editor here. I now need to install it on all my WordPress websites.

Classic Editor is an official plugin maintained by the WordPress team that restores the previous (“classic”) WordPress editor and the “Edit Post” screen. It makes it possible to use plugins that extend that screen, add old-style meta boxes, or otherwise depend on the previous editor.

Classic Editor is an official WordPress plugin, and will be fully supported and maintained until at least 2022, or as long as is necessary.

At a glance, this plugin adds the following:

  • Administrators can select the default editor for all users.
  • Administrators can allow users to change their default editor.
  • When allowed, the users can choose which editor to use for each post.
  • Each post opens in the last editor used regardless of who edited it last. This is important for maintaining a consistent experience when editing content.

In addition, the Classic Editor plugin includes several filters that let other plugins control the settings, and the editor choice per post and per post type.