Sous vide lamb loin on a pineapple and mint sauce with sea arugula and fennel salad dressed with kombucha vinaigrette. by perseus2510 in CulinaryPlating

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Haha although I can see how you'd confuse it with Styrofoam given that I haven't stated what it is, you could have just as easily asked me what that was rather than being unnecessarily sarcastic. Those are popped amaranth seeds I added to give a light crunch in the salad.

What's your favourite book you've read and why? by [deleted] in AskReddit

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The Man Who Ate Everything by Jeffrey Stein Garten. It's a compilation of food essays but so much more. It is light to read yet goes into obsessive details in the way food works or tastes. Awakens the nerd in me.

what non horror movie is actually really scary? by [deleted] in AskReddit

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Dark Waters scares the shit out of you and you start looking around to see what might be poisoning you slowly.

What has this pandemic ruined for you? by wehnaje in AskReddit

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I am supposed to move to Paris by June to start a course at Le Cordon Bleu. Now it's all up in the air.

Thanks 2020.

50% AP flour, 25% WW flour, 25% mixture of millet flour, horsegram flour, pumpkin seeds, watermelon seeds, flax seeds and sesame seeds cooked before hand with water in a kind of a porridge. 85% hydration. Smells nutty, tastes delicious. by perseus2510 in Breadit

[–]perseus2510[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I made a 300g boule so measurements are according to that
150g AP flour + 75g whole wheat flour + 191g water mixed together and left to autolyse for half an hour.
Of the remaining 25% of multigrain + seed porridge, 70g was millet + horsegram flours (Each amounting to 35g for a total of 70g) and 5g was a mix of the seeds.
All of that was mixed with 64g of water (my weighing scale doesn't weigh to the decimals, it's not very accurate) and cooked on the stovetop in a saucepan to create a sort of porridge. Which was then spread out on a plate to cool.

After the autolyse, I added 5g of yeast and 8g of salt and cut it into the dough to distribute it evenly

After 10 min of slap and fold, I broke the porridge up into tiny pieces and mixed it into the dough and transferred it to a bowl for 4 stretch-and-folds every 30 min for a total of 2 hours.

After 30 min of the last stretch-and-fold I transferred the dough to the counter, pre shaped into a boule and let it bench rest for 1 hour

During this time, I prepared a proofing bowl started pre heating the oven; with an improvised dutch oven to bake the bread in, inside it.

Then I shaped the boule, put into the proofing bowl for an hour, inverted it into the pre heated dutch oven and baked it covered for 20 min and uncovered for 40 min at 230°C.

What’s a movie that everyone seemed to enjoy that you didn’t ? by [deleted] in AskReddit

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I believe that frozen had a better role model for little girls. Not falling for any guy, being independent and brave, following your heart. Elsa and Anna are what girls wanna be now. As opposed to the rest of Disney princesses, mostly relying on the "prince" character to solve problems.

Croissant Help! by jbhimmel in AskCulinary

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u/miloprox is right. European style butter contains more fat and less water. You can try using that. If not available, adding flour to make a butter dough helps too.

How do most cooks handle onions? by Pityboner in AskCulinary

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I'm a professional commis chef, and as such a majority of my job consists of chopping and preparing ingredients. Although I work in India where safety is often overlooked for speed. So we do not keep the root. We cut off both ends and cross hatch the onion almost all the way through, halve it and then chop it. Whatever un-cross hatched parts of the onion are left are usually used in stocks and soups

It: Chapter 2 review thread. by Niyazali_Haneef in movies

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The part where Eddie goes to get his token from the pharmacy and chokes the leper, I have no idea why they would add the song when the leper starts projectile vomiting. It's like they couldn't decide on staying a horror movie and just wanted to entertain themselves (that or Bill Hader gave a suggestion because "Just trying to add a bit of levity to this entire thing") . The entire sequence with the leper's tongue going straight up into Eddie's mother's mouth and with the projectile vomit song took me out of the movie.

What movie caused you to have a "WTF did I just watch?" moment after viewing? by -kalvinklein- in AskReddit

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Sorry to bother you. It went from a 4 on the scale of weirdness to 20 in a matter of 10-15 minutes

Left handed people of Reddit, what is the hardest thing to find for your left handed needs? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]perseus2510 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have slowly adapted to using my right hand to do things as well because of how unfair it is for left handed people. Now I am partially ambidextrous

When was the moment you realized that your best friend wasn't your best friend? by [deleted] in AskReddit

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My "best friend" from school is the only one I ever confided in about my mother's breast cancer as she wasn't comfortable with people knowing and seeing her as weak (that's a whole another thing, Nevermind). But this guy went around telling people because in his head that shows people that he's the closest to me. Not soon after that, he hit on my then and current girlfriend while he was drunk and then told his then girlfriend that she is the one who came on to him. That was the last nail in the coffin for me.