Saturday, March 2, 2013

Cooking with Gas

Well, not today as the gas tank ran out.  At first that kind of sucked as I had already cracked my last two eggs and I'm quite strict about the zero-waste kitchen so I was thinkin', wtf, now what do I do.  These eggs are NOT going down the drain in the sink!

(Ed:  Microwave?)

You bet (laughs).  It really does work too.  So long as you stop it to stir the eggs every so often then it will work just fine.  You have to be quick as I probably wasn't going longer than 15-20 seconds until I would stop it.

The result got spread out over a piece of nice (I mean, outstanding) Greek bread and the result was highly scrumptious!

Another thing that works well like that is when I pull out the leftovers from my chicken feast.  If I spread that out over a slice of this excellent Greek bread, that's a meal all by itself.  I have already tried that once and there's still enough left to do it one more time to make it a total of five meals out of three chicken breasts.

Yah, zero-waste, that's how you do it!

Greeks have got bread-making down!  There is no store-bought rubbish that will stay 'fresh' for a week or whatever.  There are no preservatives or anything of that nature in this bread.  Greeks do not like that sort of thing at all.  They bake the bread so there's a fairly heavy crust but they must do it fairly quickly with high heat as the texture of the bread inside is quite delicate and the taste is supremely good.

Cat asked me to inquire about a recipe but I know the Greeks in Cincinnati wouldn't tell anyone what was in the chili so getting that recipe might not be so easy.  I suspect, tho, that the trick is not so much the recipe but rather the process through which the bread is baked, it's quite likely that the speed it is baked is very important to the result.  For example, one could bake it slower for a less-heavy crust but that would result in a heavier texture to the bread inside.

I tell you, this bread is marvelous.  I will write up whatever I discover as it is seriously worth trying wherever you are!

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