My #forage bag runneth over!

With the last batch, I put down some nocino/nocello, but these are a week later, and the black walnuts (there are both black and English walnuts in the first pic) were already starting to form shells, and now you can see the green pith starting to shrink and show the shell outlines.

The next images are the nocino/nocello when it first went in [2]; two hours later [3]; and today.

Black walnuts make for a super dark liqueur.

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36hrs hours maturation #sourdough with honey

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Am torn.
My hatred of wet raisins is a texture thing, which is diminished by chopping them so they can't bloat.

If it's instant oatmeal that doesn't cook for too long: I'm okay with them because they generally stay dry.

Overnight oatmeal?
Fuck no. Bloated raisins are like wingless flies.

And NEVER in butter tarts.
Surprise raisins are going to get someone stabbed one day.

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Puntata is done ✅
Went for a wallet folding before the staglio (cutting the dough into smaller balls to restart the maturation& fermentation) and circular folding for every paniello (smal ball)

Got 4 ~270gr panielli, that will maturate for other 12 hours at least in the appretto phase

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Made mole and salsa (vistoso?).

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Sometimes you just get a craving.

Rice Krispy Balls.

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Some days, when I'm feeling ambitious, I will make both the stock/broth and the bread for the top. Not today.

I made 3L of veg BTB (Better Than Bouillon; for those who have yet to discover this most excellent cheat code, go get some, trust me), put in all but about 500ml of the onions and juice into it, et voila.

About 5L of the second best onion soup you'll ever make. (The best will be if you make the broth from scratch, but the difference is so slight, the effort isn't always worth it.)

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I am now turning them up to 300°F for about a half-hour.

The flash washes the colour out, so I tried to compensate for that, but they're still darker than the photo shows.

Tip! Because onion cells are long, they taste best and keep their structure best when cut stem to root.

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This is after 6 hours at 230°F
I stirred them around and stuck them back in for about another 2 hours.

You can't see, but they're producing a fair amount of liquid: about ⅓ of the pot.

I mentioned that they have the lid on, right? I'm trying to get it to the point where I know what temperature works to leave them overnight as I sleep for 8 hours, and 230°F may well be it (at least in this oven).

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Just put a pot of onions in the oven for overnight onion soup.

Should be about 6 hours at 230° f. I'll check them in four and see how they're doing.

I'm looking for them to be perfectly caramelized, at which point I will pour vegetable broth over them, maybe turkey or chicken broth, I think I have both.

Once the carmelization melds throughout the broth, it's time to return to the oven with bread and cheese, et voila!

More photos to come.

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One of the lessons I gleaned from helping my grandma cook was the appreciation of process. The process of preparation is as enjoyable as the finished product.

https://mollycantrellkraig.co/how-julia-child-inspired-my-approach-to-success/

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