Lets talk turkey (food discussion)

[saltmummy]

I have a bunch of these in a big jar. I've dried them and now I'm not sure what to do with them. They usually spring up wherever I do lots of burning.

And the following is a video I made awhile back when I made some meat lumps in gravy. Warning, bad camera work and profuse swearing. I swear a lot irl.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKQTm9V ... ture=share

[Thor]

Lmao man.. That video

[Inotdead]

I have a bunch of these in a big jar. I've dried them and now I'm not sure what to do with them. They usually spring up wherever I do lots of burning.

Are those morels? Pretty neat
Fresh ones you could simply fry with some onions and potatoes for great results.
Dries ones on the other hand. I wonder

[saltmummy]

Yep, morels. I find a handful every year. Fried sounds good. Maybe I could put the dried ones in soup.

[Dallane]

I found this while I was at work. Really awesome channel for colonial foods

https://www.youtube.com/user/jastownsendandson

[Inotdead]

Yep, morels. I find a handful every year. Fried sounds good. Maybe I could put the dried ones in soup.

That's the first thing that comes to mind, yeah, but dried shrooms in soup often gain sort of "rubbery" texture. It's not bad, but I'd personally prefer fresh ones.
I wonder if one could grind/grate them down to tiny chunks and use for sauces and alike. That sounds fun.

[saltmummy]

Tonight, is pizza night.
We use a standard pizza dough recipe first, and that is: Flour, water, oil, sugar, salt, yeast. Specifically:

4 cups flour
2 tablespoons sugar
1/4 cup olive oil
2 teaspoons salt
2 packets of yeast (about 1/2 an ounce)

First, proof your yeast. There should be instructions for that on the packets. In case their isn't though, you do this: Take a glass and put the yeast and WARM water in it. Mix it a little bit to agitate the yeast and then allow it to sit about 5 minutes or until it starts to foam a bit and your yeast is ready. Mix into that the sugar and allow it to sit about ten minutes. take the oil and salt and add them to the yeast/sugar after that ten minutes is up and whisk them together. Add the flour and mix it into a dough.

That's it really, but we want to make this somewhat special. The above dough tastes like little more than bread, we want something a bit more. While waiting for your yeast to proof, get basil, italian herb, garlic salt, and onion flakes and mix them into the flour. You'll want about a tablespoon of each. After that, mix your dough as normal. Allow the dough to rest in the bowl you mixed it in, covered with a cloth, in the dark for about 45-60 minutes so it can rise. Once it's risen a bit, take it out and kneed it until it starts to get a bit stiff. Roll it out into a circle or square or use it to line a pie plate or baking tray an add your toppings. Bake for 20-30 minutes at 350 degrees or until the crust has attained your desired crispiness/softness.

Real quick sauce recipe: Two cans of tomato paste, one can of tomato sauce, one tablespoon of basil and/or oregano, one tablespoon of minced garlic. stir well and and spread on your dough when you are ready to get that pizza made.

Personally I prefer pepperoni and mushrooms on mine, but you are free to put whatever you want on yours. Anchovies? Ok, Some people like that I guess. Spinach? Um... sure, I guess if you are going for that "artisanal" style. Pineapple? You ***** heathen, get the hell out.

Pictures to come NOW.

[Thor]

Pineapple bad? I love pizza with/ chicken, bellpeppers, ham and pineapple.

[saltmummy]

Some notes on pizza.
1. I failed to measure out how much sauce I used for each pizza and so ended up with one pizza having more sauce than the other. Why is this relevant? The pizza with more sauce did not rise as much as it baked. I believe the sauce prohibited bread growth.

2. If you are gonna make a "deep" pizza like I did, you are gonna want to go the full 30 minutes or the crust won't bake all the way through.

3. Unless you are doing pizza because you want something to do with your family, or perhaps you want to feel good about yourself, just buy a pizza. Seriously, home made pizza is prohibitively expensive unless you have the stuff on hand already. A standard store bought or restaurant pizza will cost you anywhere from one dollar to fifteen bucks. Buying all the stuff to make a pizza will cost you about fifteen to twenty five bucks for the toppings alone. Pepperoni is expensive as hell. I bought the cheapest pepperoni I could find, four packages of 3 ounces each, ten dollars and I still didn't have enough pepperoni to completely make both pizzas.

Side advice. If you come across a brand called "boars head," don't buy it. It has nothing to do with pizza and more to do with the extravagant pricing and fairly low to generic quality of the product. It's overpriced meat and cheese products for people with more money than sense. The ham is alright, but still way too costly for what you are getting.

Pineapple bad? I love pizza with/ chicken, bellpeppers, ham and pineapple.

To each their own, to each their own. Personally, you had me with your pizza until you brought the pineapple into it. Without the pineapple, it looks a bit like some kind of chicken cordon blu pizza. Does this pizza of yours happen to have a garlic sauce? Some kind of alfredo?

[Thor]

Nope just the basic base, tomato sauce, cheese and toppings. It's actually a modified pizza called "Pollo" (blue cheese changed to ham from original) in a restaurant near me which just happens to be (or at least was) pretty darn high ranked one on Finland's scale at least which is kind of weird since I literally live in a middle of nowhere and it just happens to be 10 minute drive away from my house.
That's the one I usually go for when I order from there.
I also enjoy the good ol' kebab pizza when I'm having a bad hangover, lol.
Jalapenos, kebab, tomato, onion and some of that orient sauce from Sweden (pretty widely used in here on kebab pizzas).