Antiviral snack

judsoncarroll4

I am watching baseball, so I wanted a snack... feel a bit under the weather, so I made my snack antiviral. Breadsticks made with sourdough starter... 1 and 1/2 cups AP flour, 1/2 tsp salt, plus a dash, 1/2 cups sourdough starter/water, a teaspoon of oilive oil... knead 10 minutes. Let rise 2 hours, punch down, rise another hour, form a flat, rectangular loaf (like focaccia bread) rise another hour, bake at 400 until light brown. Drizzle or brush with olive oil into which raw garlic, oregano and basil have been crushed. Salt or sprinkle with parm. Dip into the sauce. Sauce: sweat down a medium onion, finely chopped in olive oil, then 3-5 cloves fresh chopped garlic, add salt, cook in the oil fresh, chopped oregano, basil, parsley and rosemary, crushed dried red pepper and black pepper. Add crushed tomatoes, a dash or red wine and simmer into a thick, rich, very aromatic sauce. A couple of gin and tonics, made with juniper, citrus and quinine just might do the job!

JennyT Upstate South Carolina

Sounds absolutely delicious @judsoncarroll4!

I'll have to give those recipes a try myself when I get my sourdough starter going.😊

vickeym

Sounds delicious, but way too long when I want a snack. LOL

annbeck62

Sounds yummy and a good way to make your "medicine" fun

Cornelius

That sounds soooo good!!! 🤤 That would taste amazing with home made pizza! Also @judsoncarroll4 can we put together a grow network cookbook of recipes from members? If so we should have it also broken down by Moderator (such as Judson approved recipes).

jowitt.europe

@judsoncarroll4 what a recipe! I am sure, no signs of cold left after this meal!

@Cornelius what a good idea - a book of recipes! One more book @judsoncarroll4 !

judsoncarroll4

https://community.thegrownetwork.com/discussion/comment/904610#Comment_904610

That is a good Idea Cornelius, I know @LaurieLovesLearning and @Ruth Ann Reyes will be interested in discussing this, too.

Torey

I love community cookbooks! I was involved with the publishing of one for our VFD. It was a fun project and an excellent end product. Really good fundraiser for us.

LaurieLovesLearning

@judsoncarroll4 & @Cornelius I had suggested this with @Ruth Ann Reyes and I think @Merin Porter quite a while ago and there was interest. I suggested that it be sold in the store as well, with contributing members getting a small discount. I had suggestions on how a cookbook could be put together, favorite recipes (not pulled of the internet), maybe cultural, etc. I think that there were enough things on the go at that point for everyone, that it didn't take off.

It was suggested that we use the recipes posted on here, but I don't know if that is the best approach as many posted here are just plucked off the internet as sounding tasty and are not tried and true comfortable member favorites. I would want to see some that are representative of our community, and not the general internet, pulled off blogs and such.

This would be something that if it proved popular, could become a small series every couple of years or so and become a collection.

Maybe it is time to revisit the idea?

Cornelius

@LaurieLovesLearning Maybe a discussion thread to post tried and true recipes and no other comments (with permission to use in the book stated at the top)?

LaurieLovesLearning

@Cornelius A good idea, although if the recipes are freely posted here, I'm not sure how many would buy the cookbook. Most people like the default option of free. 😄 I will readily admit that I am one of those.

I think it would be better for one person to receive the recipes through pm and compile them offline to protect the book's full content.

@torey What type of experience did you have in the process? I know of a popular cookbook publisher in my province, but I am not sure of the process. I would think that if they were ordered from Canada, that publishing costs could be much less. I don't know about the shipping part though.

Cornelius

@LaurieLovesLearning If @judsoncarroll4 is willing to compile them I just saw that he published a different book, so it might be the same process for a cookbook (I also feel like Judson has a lot of recipes to contribute himself)?

LaurieLovesLearning

I'm not sure. I would think that it does have a bit of a different process, but I could be wrong.

Also, it needs to be published under TGN's name and not under somebody's private name, partly because it would be a community project & also so that TGN gets all of the profits. I think that that would only be appropriate.

Torey

@LaurieLovesLearning It was Gateway Rasmussen that we used as a publisher and they are in Winnipeg. It was one of the easier fundraisers that we have done. All of the recipes were e-mailed to me. It was a joint decision (by the fundraising committee) about which categories we would have. I made the decisions regarding which recipes to use if there were more than one for the same thing. Some people sent in recipes that were very similar in ingredients or preparation.

Then it was a just a matter of copy and paste the recipes into their online format. I'm not sure what the process would be with another publisher that wasn't set up to do this sort of thing in such a simple manner.

One thing we discovered was that pictures are expensive. We went with the coloured pics they offered as section dividers, as it would have eaten into our profits too much to have submitted our own pics.

A US company that we looked at with a similar program was Heritage Cookbooks. I think they were more expensive.

LaurieLovesLearning

Here is one leading publisher in NA, which happens to be in my home province (I see @torey that you just mentioned them, haha). They have all kinds of information on what they do, a price & profit calculator, a free kit with samples and more.

https://www.cookbookprinter.com/corporate/index.cfm

Here is another company popular with the Mennonite community here.

http://www.derksenprinters.com/products/store/cookbooks/cookbook_catalogue.shtml

I can also ask a friend who published a large cookbook what she did. It does say printed in China though. I'm not sure how reliable that might be these days.

Torey

Just a quick comment on printing in China. I have had a book at a publishers for quite awhile. The latest excuse is that their printing is done in China.

LaurieLovesLearning

@torey Thats what I was thinking of...with the way things are right now, domestic printing would most likely be the better choice.