The hydration level ?
Yes .Flour. Yeast . Water . Salt . Original recipe starts with 500 grams 00 flour.
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Another very good visit to The Rustic https://www.therusticsf.com/ - well executed dishes combined with great service make for a nice dinner. It was fun to briefly chat with our server who is from Italy about our recent trip including places close to his hometown. He also recommended the last “dessert”including the Vin Santo to dip the biscotti.
Focaccia
Fried olives - anchovy filled Spanish olives
Beet Salad - baby spinach, roasted beets, gorgonzola dolce, candied walnuts & sherry vinaigrette
Burrata Caprese - early girl tomatoes, burrata di buffalo, prosciutto, basil pesto, toasted pinenuts
Orecchiette - mild Italian sausage, broccoli rabe, spicy chili flakes
12oz spiced ribeye, grilled broccolini, roasted potato, herb butter
Panna cotta, blueberry compote
Chocolate budino - dark chocolate pudding, creme chantilly, strawberry, candied walnut
Vin Santo del Chianti, almond biscotti
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I made a batch of cicerchia beans from Rancho Gordo, sort of a cross between a field pea and a chickpea. I used some of them to make a dish with shrimp, braised with tomato, garlic, white wine, and chile de arbol. We had it over ditalini. Delicious!
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Fridge and freezer clean out before my upcoming trip.
Salad, shrimp, hot Italian sausage, tomatoes, pickled onions, Parm Regg aka the usual.
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A beautifully cool fall day and a surprising win by the Patriots. 
I’m good with both of those things.
I went with one of my favorite fall meals: Mom’s Lemon Pot Roast, and boiled, buttered and s/p’d Yukon Gold potatoes and carrots.
Wine.
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I had intended on having a shrimp salad for dinner tonight but the avocados I bought to put in the salad have been sitting on the window sill for three days now and showing no signs of ripening. Tomorrow I try putting them a brown paper bag. Since I have an upcoming trip to Montreal, I decided to scrounge for salad ingredients using what I had in the fridge. So I had a rainbow trout fillet that I picked up while shopping this afternoon annd made a Greek salad to go with.
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Yum! Lucky you!
I sure am! I love fish and one of the stores I went to this afternoon had rainbow trout fillets on sale so I bought one. It was a pretty big fillet - enough for two servings - so the other serving is in the freezer for a future dinner.
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Summer on a plate. Lamb kofta from the posh butcher, done on the gas grill. Roasted Anuschka gold potatoes, skinny green beans and roasted cherry tomatoes from a nearby farm. So good!!
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Those taters are perfection! 
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Dinner was food from the Philly Southeast Asian market plus some fried rice using fridge veggies.
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Chicken Fesenjoon, Kashk-e Bademjoon (eggplant dip with walnuts), rice and Barbary bread from Pomegranate Restaurant in Toronto.
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What a coincidence! We, too, are having dinner with food from the SEA market 
So nice to meet you and @MsBean & @Bigley9 
We took home a murderously spicy som tam & a package of amazing lemongrass pork sausages. We managed to eat about half of the som tam, with ample breaks for our tongues, bathing them in Schlenkerla Rotbier & Reissdorf Kölsch, and we threw 3 of the sausages into the air fryer. Ima hafta get more of those sausages, they are 
The Bowl of Present and Future Pain
Now to soothe our flaming tongues with my dood’s awesome margaritas 
Oh, and we saw my beloved kroepoek (shrimp chips/crackers) & purchased a large bag for $5. Unfortunately, they were stale and flavorless, so I probably didn’t convince @MsBean or @Bigley9 that they are so much better than the fried noodles you get at US Chinese restaurants. Feh!
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We enjoyed another outstanding dinner at Jessica’s Cafe in Fanwood, NJ, including Chilean sea bass with celery root purée, lemon saffron sauce, roasted fennel, fingerling potatoes; Grilled 15 oz pork chop with date purée, roasted savoy cabbage, miso glazed, pickled watermelon radish, apple cider cream sauce; Thick cut Nueske’s bacon rubbed with Togarashi sauce, pickled watermelon radishes, cream of mustard and truffle sauce, king oyster; seafood fettucini with mussels, shrimp, scallops, prosecco lobster sauce, chilies, cherry tomatoes, grilled lemon. It all went great with some excellent cabernets.
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Pan-roasted chicken thighs “Diavolo”. Garden slaw with a cooling, homemade ranch. Convection oven fries.
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Slow cooked squid with white beans, tomatoes, and an alarming amount of basil.
Elderly eggplant, elderly chanterelles, rescued by oil and spice and heat.
I made my own marinated artichoke hearts. They are indeed better than store bought.
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Overbought basil for a soup recipe, so of course I had to go buy pine nuts (hello, $32/lb) to make pesto. I’m not much of a pasta eater, but I’ll make an exception for this. It’s outrageously good.
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