Cooking for the Bowl?

[Jenise]

We're watching at my brother's. They're doing our Hungarian step-mother's tamale pie. It's a dump recipe--everything comes out of cans except the ground beef, but strangely delicious. I'm taking a Tokaji in her honor for after the game and a mag of Beaujolais for during. Also, I made two quarts of homemade roasted tomatillo and guajillo salsa to go with chips and a big vat of marinated vegetable and shrimp escabeche as a low-carb defense.

Cooking for the evening.....we don't have TV and will not be watching but in a nod to the game made rye pretzels with a beer dipping sauce for lunch. Very late dinner will be a multi mushroom risotto followed by winter salad with arugula, escarole, fennel, pomegranate, pistachios. Can't wait to see the commercial hits.

Cooking for the evening.....we don't have TV and will not be watching but in a nod to the game made rye pretzels with a beer dipping sauce for lunch. Very late dinner will be a multi mushroom risotto followed by winter salad with arugula, escarole, fennel, pomegranate, pistachios. Can't wait to see the commercial hits.

Hard or soft pretzels?

Cooking for the evening.....we don't have TV and will not be watching but in a nod to the game made rye pretzels with a beer dipping sauce for lunch. Very late dinner will be a multi mushroom risotto followed by winter salad with arugula, escarole, fennel, pomegranate, pistachios. Can't wait to see the commercial hits.

Ooh, love the sound of that salad! Now you've made me all nostalgic for the tapas place down the street from me. Not the usual menu, they draw on a Sephardic tradition: https://web.archive.org/web/20180215172503if_/http://lavarany.com/menu/

Soft pretzels, Larry. After the King Arthur recipe for Rye Pretzels with beer cheese sauce. https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipe ... uce-recipe with 50%rye and the cold retard.
The only difference I made was to use non diastatic malt instead of honey.

I tried many rye recipes from Ginsberg's The Rye Baker but gave up because there is no uniformity in rye milling/labeling/packaging and I did not want to spend the huge shipping costs to order from his company to replicate his recipes. I decided to work with KA recipes until I get the feel for rye. A great show on YouTube is King Arthur's Isolation Baking Show. Jeffrey Hamelman is a master at rye and a great teacher. He did traditional German pretzels with a lye bath. Lye is too risky for me so settling on the baking soda/malt bath

Jeff, will add La Vara to the list you gave me. Wonderful menu ! Thanks