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I make! Garlic knot edition

I really thought I had posted this already…

I was inspired to make garlic knots recently because I saw a photo of some garlic knots.  So I made some.  Just pizza dough (with some dried parsley, oregano, and parm kneaded in with it).  And then a coat of melted butter and more parm grated over the top.  And then into a 400degF oven for about 10 minutes.  They’re good.

The pizza dough wasn’t my normal several day rise pizza dough because…the garlic knots weren’t really planned.  I borrowed the pizza dough recipe from Sorted food.

I used all purpose flour in place of the strong flour they call out.  I think I do have high gluten flour somewhere, but I didn’t bother digging it out. Also, I didn’t bother with their directions on how to make the dough.  I proofed my yeast beforehand with the warm water and maybe a teaspoon of sugar and then kneaded the dough in the KitchenAid until the dough formed a smooth ball and let it rise until doubled in volume.  The Sorted food recipe makes enough dough for a dozen garlic knots.

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I make! BAST pasta edition

I came across the idea of BLT pasta recently (I don’t remember from where).  This was in the midst of a longish stint of eating out so it seemed especially appealing to me.  Eating out is all well and good, and sometimes it’s much more convenient and time efficient than cooking…but I get grossed out if I eat out a lot.  So I set out to make something like BLT pasta.

Now then, we know that BLT stands for bacon, lettuce, and tomato.  I’m good with hot bacon and tomato, but I’m definitely not ok with hot lettuce.  When you heat lettuce (romaine and iceberg), it develops a particular flavor and scent that I really do not like.  My mother has tried since I was a child to get me to like cooked lettuce.  And I have done my utmost since my childhood to avoid eating cooked lettuce.

But arugula!  Wilted arugula is pretty good.  Also fresh arugula.  I just really like arugula.  And also spinach.  So I subbed out the L with A and S and I ended up with BAST pasta.  With a sprinkling of red pepper flakes and parm.

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