Capitol Hill Blue Forums Misc. Topics Food, Drink and Cooking Wonder what the poor folks are eatin' tonight?

We have had artisan breads here for decades, rick. They are just more in vogue lately. My mother used to buy potato herb bread from our local Jewish bakery. Challah, brioche, sour dough, all kinds of rye bread and even Italian and french breads. I loved going into that bakery in the morning, when you could smell all that fresh bread. You really have to get off the "NoCal is Better than SoCal" meme. It is getting very tedious. There is wonder and beauty everywhere in this world, and if you cannot see that, then you are mentally stunted and blind. I feel sorry that you are so limited.

I know it's a bit off-topic for this thread, but I just had Rubio's finger-lobster tacos for lunch: Damn, those are good!

My apologies to anyone out of range of a Rubio's.

There is a Rubio's not far from me. But I don't do shellfish. But their Mexican food is pretty good for a chain fast food joint.

Finger lobster tacos sound pretty good. I almost had fish tacos for supper but decided on a regular sandwich instead.

I just ordered a Banneton Brotform bread proofing basket. I'm going to give the no knead bread a try finally and there are a few tools I'd like to have to step up the breadmaking a notch.
A Danish dough whisk, the proofing basket, and a pair of welding gloves. No knead bread cooks at a ridiculously high temp in a dutch oven and I don't wanna hurt myself.

The claim that a 4 year old can do this is not exactly true.
I wouldn't trust a small child to handle a 500 degree cast iron Dutch oven.

The crumb structure is what sold me on this, it's very similar to Ciabata bread. which is a major pain in the ass to make.

Ate there once. Gawd awful. Chipotle is much better and is Baja Fresh.

...but we are Blanche.

True - expect, concrete-laden, hills stripped of vegetation in favor of homes, SoCal. No flowing rivers, no real acres of green space, nothing but shades of gray and brown space.

Rose-colored glasses don't lens my view of SoCal. Sorry.

Whatever Rick. If you need to run down others and other places to make yourself feel important, then by all means, go at it.