I regret not checking the weather

[unicornduke]

But I'm almost done baking. It is currently 80F outside but it was 75F overnight, with a storm that made it 90% humidity. I turned on the AC units and baked because I need food for the next two weeks.

Made yogurt, which is currently fermenting, granola which I need to add hazelnuts to.

Then bread which is in the oven now and rose spectacularly and I'm very happy with. Turns out the dough should be a little wetter, and probably the water I was using was a tiny bit too cool for the yeast. Plus I started rising it on the oven at all times. Recipe is Basic Sandwich Bread from America's Test Kitchen How Can it be Gluten Free book (not the actual name I think but close enough)

Also made chocolate chip scones for snacks for this week, cream scones from a giant Baking basics book that I like a lot for fancier things. I've made this a ton and it's pretty good if a little crumbly.

Final thing in the fridge chilling is puff pastry with the filling from a chocolate babka. The gluten free puff pastry from Baked to Perfection by Katarina Cermelj is just amazing. I got the book as recommended by runpunkrun here

I probably will share those with friends. Unless it's really really good. But I was going to make it into twists, but I'm a little worried about the pastry cooking in time, so I might actually slice them and they'll be weird little puff pastry bites.

I made a trip to the farmers market yesterday and got apricots (yay finally in season! PLUMS SOON), blueberries and sweet cherries for munching. I also picked up supplies for camping next weekend with my sister. The weather looks warm but not unbearable so we'll see. Might be camping at home

Comments

[graydon]

I am very impressed by gluten-free puff pastry!

Yay for having "camping at home" in the planning tree.

[unicornduke]

It turns out that puff pastry is really easy and especially gluten free puff pastry since I don't need to worry about gluten development if it gets warm, so I'm going to make it a lot. I'm pretty excited to try some savory things with it, fillings and turnovers. The cheese sticks I made last time were phenomenal

I managed to wrangle my parents into a family camping trip in August, which also has a backup plan of going to my brother's place instead if it's really hot.

[reedrover]

I missed apricot season at our farmer’s market and I’m mad/sad about it!

Yes, gf puff pastry sounds smart since rising is one of the worries when making it.

Thank you for citing your references. I added that cookbook to my want list. We have sufficient gf/df/sf people in our lives that it would be nice to not just buy pre-made stuff. I make a great gf chocolate cake but that’s as far as I’ve gone with baking.

[unicornduke]

Apricots just mean plums are coming soon, which are one of my all time favorite fruits.

Glad to help! The books I've listed have a range of things, ATK has solid stuff without as much theory, the Baked to Perfection goes into a lot of the theory of why things work and has like one recipe type as a foundation, so one savory pie, one sweet pie, one pizza recipe, etc.