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Just back from Singapore and already craving savoury asian delights. Decided to a version of these pepper buns, which I first tried in Taipei. They make these in a huge charcoal oven on the streets, and the peppery filling paired with the flaky crust is unbelievable.

The traditional filling is meat-based, but here I decided to use a stewed mushroom filling. 

I had forgotten, I made a fruit flavor pairing chart in PDF form. Enjoy!  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1e7OUQtcafe8RnnMJDitwFKp4jRJtKJ6L/view?usp=drivesdk

Experimental formula 

100% Strong Flour 240 g

           100% Water  240 g

1.2% Instant Yeast.    3 g

                 1.8% Salt    4.5 g

                          Sugar 3 ts 

                       Olive oil 2 TBS

          Unsalted butter 1 TBS

I recently received a 25 Kg bag of Pasini Millebolle panettone flour, and this was the first test. The panettone is a simple variation on my usual formula, meant to evoke a Danish pastry with pecan and apple. I added cardamom in addition to vanilla bean, plus a variety of inclusions totaling approximately the weight of flour in the recipe.

A Chai Blackberry pie.  A bit rough around the edges but better than I usually do.  Tasting still to come.

Trying to beat Ilya who always has an interesting post of his lovely hamantaschen every year. 

The ones at the back are gluten free (almond and tapioca) whilst those at the front are more traditional and have a yeasted dough made with cake flour and a little bit of lemon zest from a Ukranian recipe.

I decided to scrap the idea of making pain suisse-based flatbread. The idea was cutting out disks of pain suisse, and bake them the millefeuille way. But too much leftover dough after the cutouts were taken. So, nope.

This flatbread is inspired by a dish of my homeland. It's called kering tempe. It's basically caked soybean, fermented by Rhizopus oligosporus mould, crispy fried, and then cooked in palm-sugar-based savory spiced syrup, meant to be eaten with rice. Think of praline, but using tempe and also savory.

Formula 🔗 👇 

https://mission-food.com/wprm_print/flammkuchen-tarte-flambee-german-pizza-with-bacon-and-onions

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Flammekueche

Formula courtesy of Ian Island66, by way of Tom Passin.

🔗 To Ian's blog post 

https://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/75349/uzbek-sourdough-flatbread

The bake went pretty much verbatim to Ian's blog instructions. I am happy with the outcome. I used rehydrated onion for my topping.