Millet polenta followup
Jun. 30th, 2006 12:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Well, after leaving the millet mixture in the fridge for 48 hours, I got it out last night and prepared to fry it.
First I poured off the liquid on top. Then I tried to slice it.
It was definitely too wet/gooey. Drat!
So, we fried some in butter in globs. Interesting, but it kept falling apart when I went to turn it.
Still, it was fried starch-- what could be bad? Especially with cheese.
Sarah wants to try it again with broth in the cooking water, and I want to use less liquid.
However... there is a problem. There are three dishes I had already planned on for the meal:
Eggplant Morisco
Lombardy Sops
Carrot-Cheese Pie
that all have cheese. That makes a 4th cheese dish. Hm. That may be too much dairy.
Drat drat drat.
Back to the drawing board, I guess: I could do plain rice and barley or bulgur with almond milk...
First I poured off the liquid on top. Then I tried to slice it.
It was definitely too wet/gooey. Drat!
So, we fried some in butter in globs. Interesting, but it kept falling apart when I went to turn it.
Still, it was fried starch-- what could be bad? Especially with cheese.
Sarah wants to try it again with broth in the cooking water, and I want to use less liquid.
However... there is a problem. There are three dishes I had already planned on for the meal:
Eggplant Morisco
Lombardy Sops
Carrot-Cheese Pie
that all have cheese. That makes a 4th cheese dish. Hm. That may be too much dairy.
Drat drat drat.
Back to the drawing board, I guess: I could do plain rice and barley or bulgur with almond milk...
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Date: 2006-06-30 04:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-30 04:36 pm (UTC)(not the cook)
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Date: 2006-06-30 08:47 pm (UTC)Might be worth a try anyway!
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Date: 2006-07-02 07:34 am (UTC)When is this feast again?
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Date: 2006-07-04 02:50 pm (UTC)I've decided to hold out some of the cooked millet for people with dairy issues, but go ahead with the polenta. While cooked plain millet is documentable for our period, I don't have good documentation for it in the Iberian peninsula, and this feast is special: I've been asked to make it as documented as possible. So, as close as I can go with an original recipe from that place, the better.