Teff Experiment

I bought some teff flour a while back and have been trying to decide what to test it on.

Spinach Pie with Teff Crust

4 Tbs Butter
1.5 c Teff Flour or All-Purpose Flour
Ice Water

8 Garlic, cloves
1/4lb Tofu
1/2 c Feta, crumbled
1/2 c Parmesan, grated
8 c Spinach, cooked and chopped
Salt
Pepper


Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Cut butter, with pastry cutter, into Flour until the butter becomes crumb-sized. Stir in water, teaspoons at a time, until dough comes together. Roll to desired thickness and place in a greased pie plate.
Puree Garlic, Tofu, and Feta. Stir Garlic Mixture with spinach and half of the Parmesan cheese until combined. Plop Spinach Mixture into pie shell and even out in the shell. Sprinkle remaining Parmesan on top of the pie. Bake in the oven for 40 minutes.

I promise you can do this!

This is the easiest recipe on this site (So far anyway). I promise you can do this. I did it without my mixer, which means that it was more trouble to pick my mixer up than to stir for the one minute I needed to make the shaggy dough. After I made my dough, I ate supper and watched a movie before adding my 1/4 cup of flour. After that, I went to bed and shopping with Vi. I came back dumped out my dough onto 1/2 cup of flour and watched another movie. I turned on the oven and stuck my CorningWare inside. I played on the internet for 30 minutes and dumped the dough into the preheated CorningWare to bake for 30 minutes. After I removed the lid I came to write this blog entry for the next 30 minutes of baking.

Whole Wheat Bread in 24 hours
Adapted from Jim Lahey's Recipe

Ingredients
1.5 teaspoons yeast
1.5 teaspoons Kosher salt
3 cups White Whole Wheat Flour (you can get this at Whole Foods or Calandro's)
1.5 cups water
1/4 cup White Whole Wheat Flour
1/2 cup White Whole Wheat Flour

Equipment
3-qt mixing bowl that fits in your microwave
Measuring cups and spoons
Stirring Spoon or Spatula
Saran Wrap
Microwave (you're looking for a non-drafty spot)
Cookie Sheet
2.5-qt oven safe dish with lid (CorningWare or enameled cast iron are great)
Cooling rack

24h:
Mix yeast, salt and 3 cups of the flour in a 3-qt bowl. Add water and stir until dough becomes a shaggy ball. Cover tightly with Saran and place bowl in the microwave.
21h:
Remove bowl from microwave. Remove the saran, don't throw it away you're going to put it right back on the bowl. Stir in 1/4 cup of flour. Replace the saran on the bowl. Place in microwave.
4h:
Place 1/2 cup of flour on cookie sheet and scoop/roll the dough out of the bowl and onto the cookie sheet.
2.5h:
Turn the oven on to 450 degrees with the oven safe dish and lid inside the oven.
2h:
Brush the extra flour on the cookie sheet into the sink. If there is some or lots of flour on the bread, that's fine. Being careful not to burn yourself, remove oven safe dish and lid from the oven, remove lid and slide/roll dough into the dish. (The dish is never oiled/Pam-sprayed) Cover with lid and return to oven.
1.5h:
Remove lid and bake for 10-30 minutes, probably all 30.
1h:
Remove oven safe dish from oven.
50min:
Remove bread from oven safe dish and place on cooling rack.
0min:
Slice or tear and eat.

While it's not the best bread I've ever had in my life, it's still better than anything you can buy. You can also do this for a white version with all-purpose flour and 1/2 teaspoon of yeast instead of the 1.5 teaspoons of yeast. All the other directions remain the same, so it would be:

White Bread in 24 hours
Adapted from Jim Lahey's Recipe

Ingredients
1/2 teaspoon yeast
1.5 teaspoons Kosher salt
3 cups All-purpose Flour
1.5 cups water
1/4 cup All-purpose Flour
1/2 cup All-purpose Flour

Equipment
3-qt mixing bowl that fits in your microwave
Measuring cups and spoons
Stirring Spoon or Spatula
Saran Wrap
Microwave (you're looking for a non-drafty spot)
Cookie Sheet
2.5-qt oven safe dish with lid (CorningWare or enameled cast iron are great)
Cooling rack

24h:
Mix yeast, salt and 3 cups of the flour in a 3-qt bowl. Add water and stir until dough becomes a shaggy ball. Cover tightly with Saran and place bowl in the microwave.
21h:
Remove bowl from microwave. Remove the saran, don't throw it away you're going to put it right back on the bowl. Stir in 1/4 cup of flour. Replace the saran on the bowl. Place in microwave.
4h:
Place 1/2 cup of flour on cookie sheet and scoop/roll the dough out of the bowl and onto the cookie sheet.
2.5h:
Turn the oven on to 450 degrees with the oven safe dish and lid inside the oven.
2h:
Brush the extra flour on the cookie sheet into the sink. If there is some or lots of flour on the bread, that's fine. Being careful not to burn yourself, remove oven safe dish and lid from the oven, remove lid and slide/roll dough into the dish. (The dish is never oiled/Pam-sprayed) Cover with lid and return to oven.
1.5h:
Remove lid and bake for 10-30 minutes, probably all 30.
1h:
Remove oven safe dish from oven.
50min:
Remove bread from oven safe dish and place on cooling rack.
0min:
Slice or tear and eat.