I've made ketchup, mayonnaise, sriracha, and other condiments that take a decent amount of effort. I felt shame when I saw this list and read how easy it is to make mustard. I've always assumed there was magic to it, but I guess not. I'll correct that mistake soon.
mmm, mustard is "easy" the way truffles are "easy." putting the ingredients together into a paste you can put on a sandwich is super simple. The trick with mustard is that the temperature you soak it at will radically effect the spicyness of the result. Unless you take steps, you end up with "fuck you hot" mustard, not grey poupon. Still, we've done it a few times and likely will again. Hank has the lowdown. I'm not entirely sold on this list because they seem to consider "easy" to be "not technically challenging" OR "not labor-intensive" while I'd consider "easy" to be "not technically challenging or labor-intenstive." Fuck yeah, buying hummus is stupid. But as someone who has been making cake from scratch since I was 11, buying all the dry ingredients mixed together in a box from Betty Crocker doesn't really hurt you. And things like vanilla ice cream aren't that tough to execute at home, but it's stupid simple to get great results if you're a creamery and fiddly as fuck if you're going to have to clear out eight Healthy Choice frozen entrees to have somewhere to set the stuff. That they don't really care about your vanilla extract or vanilla bean makes me doubt their intentions.
The wife and I are huge fans if pickling. We mostly pickle onions and peppers, cause those are hard to mess up. We've talked about baking our own bread for quite a while, but have never gotten around to it. I think I should bring up the subject again.
When I pickle, I usually do several things at once, because pickling five things is barely any more difficult than pickling one thing. My most common items are cucumbers (obviously), shallots, jalapenos, cabbage, and beets. In the cucumber pickle brine, I typically toss in a couple habaneros. I haven't tried simple salt pickling; always with apple cider vinegar. I'd like to try someday, however.
Have you tried pickling red onions with red wine vinegar? Add in some bay leaves and crushed red pepper for taste and they come out amazing. And speaking of jalapenos, we recently bought some jalapeno jelly at a farmer's market and now we're tempted to try making that too. It might go great with home made bread.
Sorry for the delay. MIRACLE BREAD 5 1/4 C flour 1/2 T salt 1/4 C sugar 1&1/2 T yeast Mix all these dry ingredients together. Then add 2C water ( hottest you can get from tap) 2&1/2T oil. Mix for 5 minutes. Split and Roll into two loafs. Put in bread pans and let rise for 25 min. Preheat oven 350 degrees . Cook for 25min.
A breadmaker. Yes. I should talk her into that. I'd get sooo fat on carbs so quickly, but it'd be worth it. I keep on telling her, over and over, that we should make some soda bread. Nothing fancy. Maybe something that taste like sourdough with caraway seeds. Sodabread is like naan. You don't have to really do anything with it if you don't want to, just tear off pieces and go to town.