Food, Photography and Bon Mots
Every month Blue Cayenne features recipes from our archive of more than four hundred recipes. These recipes are our “Oldies But Goodies.” Today’s Oldie But Goodie recipes are for holiday dishes involving cranberries–one a home-made sauce and the other a squash side dish. You can…
It’s the season for gift giving. Here’s an idea: Gift a snacking cake. Your gift will be as unique as it will be delicious. This recipe is adapted from a recipe in Chetna Masan’s great cookbook, The Cardamom Trail. You can find the book at…
Lately, I’ve been craving a good burger.
So, I bought a package of Impossible Beef in the deli section of my local Trader Joe’s, gathered all the trimmings, and set about making some fresh hamburger buns rather than those sad buns you see in big bags at the grocery.
I used the Beautiful Burger Bun recipe from King Arthur Baking. You can find the original recipe here..
I adapted the recipe to my kitchen, making the dough through the first rise in my Zogirushi bread machine. You just put the ingredients in the Zogirushi pan (liquids first), select the dough setting (setting 11) and you are off. The machine does the mixing, kneading, and takes the dough through the first rise. I then took the dough out of the machine, shaped the buns, sprinkled a seed mix on top and let the buns do their second rise on my counter. Then I baked the buns for 18 minutes at 375 degrees F. They were/are beautiful.
I ended up with a really comforting meal. I have buns in the freezer for a burger or sandwich on another day.
Now I’m craving really crispy French fries to complement my next burger. Will a root beer float be next? Whoa!
