This is one of my mom's standard Thanksgiving recipes and a standby that she often serves at dinner parties. I served it last Sunday night to my friends alongside Pilafian's Pilaf. We also had ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
bluesbell's hummus on bread, lentil koftas brought by morningfine, and pierydys's pecan pie for dessert.
( French beans with sesame seeds )
I had also found a recipe for "Vegan Olive Oil Challah" at autostraddle.com, a lesbian lifestyle site that I follow via Tumblr. I wanted to try it because of the vegan, vegetarian, and lactose-intolerant guests I was expecting, but neglected to notice that the dough needed to chill overnight, so it wasn't actually ready until breakfast the next morning. We made do with some older homemade bread and it was fine, but more importantly, this recipe is wrong and hilarious for many reasons.
So in the end, this is not challah at all. It is vegan, though, and it's very tasty and extremely crusty, which some people (including me) like, although you need to watch it carefully so it doesn't bake itself dry. It starts to dry out fast. So here is the recipe edited by me according to Wax's comments. (Wax likes bread and I hate kneading things, so she is in charge of bread in our household.)
( Overnight-chilled crusty olive oil bread that isn't challah although feel free to braid it if the mood takes you )
bluesbell's hummus on bread, lentil koftas brought by morningfine, and pierydys's pecan pie for dessert. ( French beans with sesame seeds )
I had also found a recipe for "Vegan Olive Oil Challah" at autostraddle.com, a lesbian lifestyle site that I follow via Tumblr. I wanted to try it because of the vegan, vegetarian, and lactose-intolerant guests I was expecting, but neglected to notice that the dough needed to chill overnight, so it wasn't actually ready until breakfast the next morning. We made do with some older homemade bread and it was fine, but more importantly, this recipe is wrong and hilarious for many reasons.
- It doesn't taste like challah. (In fact, it tastes exactly like Italian breadsticks. "Olive Garden breadsticks" was both the first thing that came to mind when I was asked how it tasted and the first thing that came to mind for pierydys as well.)
- It doesn't have the texture of challah. Not a big surprise as challah contains a lot of egg, but I did sort of expect it to be similar I guess.
- It doesn't belong to the same taste family as challah. To wit, it is savory and slightly salty with a detectable olive oil tint. Challah is sweet.
- The recipe included measurements in US cups and in grams, but someone was apparently confused about how big a gram was, according to Wax.
So in the end, this is not challah at all. It is vegan, though, and it's very tasty and extremely crusty, which some people (including me) like, although you need to watch it carefully so it doesn't bake itself dry. It starts to dry out fast. So here is the recipe edited by me according to Wax's comments. (Wax likes bread and I hate kneading things, so she is in charge of bread in our household.)
( Overnight-chilled crusty olive oil bread that isn't challah although feel free to braid it if the mood takes you )
