What have you been eating?

[The Seamstress]

How did you make the apple streusel thing? It sounds tasty

I just made a little bit of dough mixing flour, sugar, butter (I measured nothing, just eyeballed it, but it was approx. 3 tablespoons flour, 1-2 tablespoons sugar, and a ~8x3x1.5 cm piece of butter), then kneading it until everything was, uhm, doughy... then putting a little bit into the (buttered) bowl & forming a base layer. On top of that, two small apples cut into chunks, these I mixed with ground almonds (1-3 teaspoons), cinnamon, cloves, a little sugar and bitter almond flavouring, then on top of that, the rest of the dough in streusel-form. Then baked it at 200°C until it looked good. :-D

[Spritelady]

I'm always so impressed by people who eyeball recipes for baked goods! I can do that with a few things (estimating a tablespoon of butter for instance, possibly the silliest measurement type for butter and yet hideously common...) but for the most part I have to follow a recipe or I'm incredibly likely to make a mess!

[The Seamstress]

I'm not that good at eyeballing either, actually, but in this case you can't do much wrong - too much flour, add butter, too much butter, add flour... just make sure it's got a slightly crumbly texture so you can make the streusel. I wasn't aiming for a specific outcome regarding the amount of dough, so I just went "whatever", lol. Usually I follow a recipe and measure things, too!

[Spritelady]

November entry for me! Reece and I made bao buns from scratch, steamed them and then ate them with homemade pulled duck (basically just slow cooked duck with garlic, ginger and hoisin sauce) and some veggies. A pretty successful first go at making any form of steamed dough.

We have also now added a steamer to our Christmas list, as we didn't own one and had to improvise.

 

[Jubal]

The bao buns look great!

I've been really unimaginative with cooking lately - probably partly life feeling a bit upended. Hopefully soon I'll be back to it.