So weird, because macchiato means "with a bit of milk", but a latte IS milk? It doesn't make sense :' )
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Yeah actually the nuance is very tricky:
- (traditional) macchiato is milk foam where you pour the Espresso so the foam has the strong expresso taste
- latte macchiato you have a first layer of steamed milk then foam milk and then the espresso is poured over to give the strong coffee taste
- latte, the espresso is added first, then an amount of 2/3 of steamed milk is added blending the taste
Since last year I discovered that sweet corn when just harvested could be eaten raw!
So this year I've tried it again and I think it will become a seasonal thing I'll eat (among so many other seasonal food I have in my calendar lol)
The reason it can be eaten raw it's because just harvested corn and in particular sweet corn (not to confuse with field or dent corn) are very sweet and the sugar didn't turn yet into starch which makes them hard.
Fun fact: Japanese white corn, such as Hokkaido's Pure White Corn, are grown to be eaten raw due to their low starch and high water and sugar content too.
So this year I've tried it again and I think it will become a seasonal thing I'll eat (among so many other seasonal food I have in my calendar lol)
The reason it can be eaten raw it's because just harvested corn and in particular sweet corn (not to confuse with field or dent corn) are very sweet and the sugar didn't turn yet into starch which makes them hard.
Fun fact: Japanese white corn, such as Hokkaido's Pure White Corn, are grown to be eaten raw due to their low starch and high water and sugar content too.
Taiwanese fried salt and pepper pork chop! It also comes in the flavor of chicken breast, tofu or king oyster mushroom. This one is from Frite & Bulle ( 福霸 )
Crumb reveal for the sourdough heads.
This one is 20% whole wheat flour, I think the gluten is a tad underdeveloped (I didn't do that many stretch / folds).
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Was going to say it might be better with more air/bubbles inside!View attachment 103792View attachment 103793
Crumb reveal for the sourdough heads.
This one is 20% whole wheat flour, I think the gluten is a tad underdeveloped (I didn't do that many stretch / folds).
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Nights are colder and perfect time to eat hotpot to warm ones' body!
You don't use wood or apples to smoke salmon. You use lapsang souchong tea
I'll have to give this a try! Seems quite interesting... do you recommend the same with any other fish smoking?
I actually used maple, as this is what I had in stock and handy (for my next round of smoking: bacon).
Not really true as the tea is smoked......very common for cold smoked salmon:
Smoky Lapsang Souchong Tea Cured Salmon - delectabilia
There is something sensual about the taste and texture of cured salmon. Smoky lapsang souchong tea adds a distinctive edge, a little like smoked salmon but so much more.
www.delectabilia.com
Moss is also very nice to smoke salmon, scottish style.
Personaly, in my salmon fishing years, I always used hickory, and to this day, it is still my favorite. That being said, I wouldnt waste my time smoking salmon from the store.
On this subject of smoked salmon I can tell a funny story that goes back 15 years when I was traveling from the U.S. to Montreal many times a year.
I met a tea merchant in Montreal Chinatown (rue Clark) and started buying his teas and bringing them back to the USA. I not only bought lapsang souchang but lychee and various other black teas, all of which were from a tropical area of southwest China. I ended up sharing my tea with my coworkers and they loved it. So one trip I collected around $200 from them to buy tea and bought $100 worth of tea for myself. $300 worth of black tea, total, but it was good high end stuff.
The merchant packed the teas in clear, unmarked and unlabeled ziplock plastic bags after weighing them on a scale. I then paid based on weight.
I never previously had a problem with US Customs, but this trip going back to the U.S. I was stopped, searched and asked if I had anything to declare. Realizing that if I opened the trunk and they saw the teas and they were not declared I would have a problem, I declared them. I then got sent inside with the teas and they ended up being seized because they were unlabeled and because the customs agent said, "for all we know there could be lizard heads in there." He then asked me to identify each of the unlabeled bags and I knew the lychee and lapsang souchang but forgot the others my friends had ordered. That clinched the seizure decision. I was given a seizure notice and the agent said to me, "good thing you didn't lie and declared them or we would have fined you $600."
Anyway that was the last time I tried bringing tea back into the USA or anything other than what I bought at the duty free store. I bought a large quantity of lapsang souchang in part because my father cured salmon with the tea. I was going to give it all to him and keep the lychee for myself.
I met a tea merchant in Montreal Chinatown (rue Clark) and started buying his teas and bringing them back to the USA. I not only bought lapsang souchang but lychee and various other black teas, all of which were from a tropical area of southwest China. I ended up sharing my tea with my coworkers and they loved it. So one trip I collected around $200 from them to buy tea and bought $100 worth of tea for myself. $300 worth of black tea, total, but it was good high end stuff.
The merchant packed the teas in clear, unmarked and unlabeled ziplock plastic bags after weighing them on a scale. I then paid based on weight.
I never previously had a problem with US Customs, but this trip going back to the U.S. I was stopped, searched and asked if I had anything to declare. Realizing that if I opened the trunk and they saw the teas and they were not declared I would have a problem, I declared them. I then got sent inside with the teas and they ended up being seized because they were unlabeled and because the customs agent said, "for all we know there could be lizard heads in there." He then asked me to identify each of the unlabeled bags and I knew the lychee and lapsang souchang but forgot the others my friends had ordered. That clinched the seizure decision. I was given a seizure notice and the agent said to me, "good thing you didn't lie and declared them or we would have fined you $600."
Anyway that was the last time I tried bringing tea back into the USA or anything other than what I bought at the duty free store. I bought a large quantity of lapsang souchang in part because my father cured salmon with the tea. I was going to give it all to him and keep the lychee for myself.
