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Recipe used:

Milk Butter Dinner Rolls:

500 g flour

50 g butter (softened)

50 g sugar

25 g fresh yeast

10 g salt

2 eggs

Milk (enough to reach 250 g total when combined with the 2 eggs). Dough may come out too dry depending on the flour used. Add more milk if necessary

Cottage Cheese Lasagna (8 servings)
Calories: 502
Fat: 12g
Carbs: 47g
Protein: 50g

Ingredients
- 2lb 93% lean ground turkey
- 4 cups marinara sauce
- 3 cups low fat cottage cheese
- 2 cups fat free mozzarella
- 40g grated Parmesan cheese
- Lasagna noodles

The lasagna is one I’ve been doing for years and is just a double batch of a recipe I’ll put in the comments. Preheat the oven to 350F. Cook the turkey until cooked through with salt, pepper, and garlic, then drain off fat. While that’s cooking, stir together the cottage cheese and Parmesan with some Italian seasoning. Once meat is done, combine it with the marinara. In a greased 13x9 pan, start with 1/3 of the meat sauce, then layer on oven ready lasagna noodles. For me it took four noodles. Then, put half of the cottage cheese mixture on the noodles. Make another layer of meat, noodle, then cheese, then finish with the last of the meat. Once that’s done, top with the mozzarella evenly spread across the top. Cover with aluminum foil, then bake for 20 minutes, remove the foil, and finish off with 10 more minutes uncovered

I usually do this with some sort of veggie, this week it’s a big ole bag of frozen broccoli I did up in salt, pepper, and garlic

Savory Breakfast Muffins (22 servings)
Calories: 290
Fat: 8g
Carbs: 27g
Protein: 28g

Ingredients
- 3lb 93% lean ground turkey
- 3 cups low fat cottage cheese
- 12 large eggs
- 1/4 cup sugar free maple syrup
- 3 cups fat free cheddar
- 3/4 cup milk (I used fat free ultrafiltered milk)
- Diced vegetables of your choice (I used bell pepper and onion)
- 4.5 cups flour
- 2 tbsp baking powder

I tried something similar last time I made breakfast using biscuit dough, but wasn’t thrilled with the end result. This week was another shamelessly stolen recipe I’ll link below in the comments that scratches that same itch but came together a lot better, except I tripled the ingredients. Preheat oven to 400F. Cook the turkey until cooked through with salt, pepper, and garlic, then remove meat from the pan. Toss diced veggies into the fat still into the pan, then cook until softened. While that’s all going, mix together your eggs, cottage cheese, syrup, and milk as well as some salt. Once that’s combined, fold in the flour and baking powder. Then add in the turkey, veggies, and cheese. Once fully combined, divide evenly into greased cupcake trays and bake for 25 minutes. My batch ended up making 45 muffins, which I’m gonna have 2 of each morning

A little backstory: this is a Great Depression era recipe that my grandma baked her whole life. My dad grew up having them daily, and then I grew up having them daily. Once I hit adulthood I begged her for the recipe, and she said she never had written it down but would do her best to guess. Unfortunately by this point, she had developed Alzheimer’s, so I have suspicions that the “recipe” is not quite right. I know this recipe is simple but I love these biscuits dearly and I want nothing more to figure out what I’m doing wrong.

The biscuits: I remember them being very tall (probably double their width) and very fluffy. The inside was a nice almost white color and the outsides got brown and pretty crispy. The dough itself I remember being extremely sticky. I also remember she would melt some shortening in the pan in the oven while it was heating. Not sure if she dipped both bottom and top of biscuits in the melted shortening, but I think she did.

All of my attempts so far have yielded similar tasting biscuits but they do not look right. Mine are short and take a lot longer to bake than she indicated they would. They also are not quite as fluffy and more dense. I have tried cutting in cold shortening, but it made them too flakey, I have tried messing with bake time, no major changes. Also I have tried adding in more biscuits to the pan to see if that would force them to get taller, but it did not.

I appreciate any and all recommendations. I have been trying to recreate her biscuits for like 15 years.

As the title says. This time I added two poblanos along with the serranos, I’ll be doing that again. And a 1lb pack of bacon because that’s all I could find. Forgot to add when I made the recipe book, but a splash of vinegar at the end helps.

Recipe’s based on the serious eats one, this is just what it’s turned into. Makes 14 1-cup servings plus 1-2 bowls. I’ve been making it all on the stovetop nowadays too.

Rice made normally in a rice cooker with some vegetable oil and cilantro thrown in while it cooks.

See the last photo for a live picture of me enjoying the fruits of my labor.

Hi everyone,
I have made cornbread for the past few holidays and it’s become my staple. But I face one big issue everytime I make it so I’m wondering for a fix for it. My big issue: IT IS DRY. What is something I can during the process of making it to make it more moist/fluffy? Any advice is welcome. For the recipe I follow, I tend to follow this one. https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/17891/golden-sweet-cornbread/

I’ve been practicing with poolish loaves for a while with the goal of diving back into sourdough soon, but honestly, this loaf was so good I’m not sure I’m ready to switch! Extremely crispy crust, fluffy crumb, and amazing rise.

POOLISH
45g flour
45g water
Tiny pinch active dry yeast

Fermented overnight at room temp

DOUGH
All the poolish
1/8 tsp active dry yeast
400g organic bread flour
285g water
10g salt

2 sets of stretch and folds
1 set of coil folds

8 hour total bulk fermentation

12 hour cold proof

Preheated oven to 500F, then baked at 475 in a Dutch oven, 25 mins with lid on and 10 mins with lid off, internal temp was 211

My 4th and 5th loaf. I love it

My friend gave me some really good resilient 50-year-old starter a couple years ago and I have been utilizing it off and on with a lot of fridge dormancy.. Time to get these bad boys back in the shape!