On Aug 28, 4:11*pm, Andy <q> wrote:
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> > On Aug 28, 1:52*pm, Andy <q> wrote:
> >> Dimitri said...
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> >> > I use the French bread setting because of the crust.
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> >> How about after the bread is baked and cooled, cube the bread, create an
> >> oil a few days prior infused with fine chopped basil, chives, rosemary,
> >> parsley and garlic (or what you like), then with a spray bottle, spray
> >> croutons over and under, like you might lightly soak French toast pre-
> >> arranged on a narrow-wired cooling tray, then low-temp cook in the oven,
> >> until lightly browned on one side, cover them with another cooling tray
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> >> flip removing the top cooling tray to let them lightly brown that side..
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> >> You might end up with a little moisture of the infused oil inside to
> >> compliment the lightly toasted crispy herbed outside.
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> >> I've never made it but that's what I pictured. I never liked trying to
> >> carefully stab a crouton with a fork and then have it crumble to pieces.
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> >> Ahh..I see I reinvented Nancy2's reccipe.
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> >> Best,
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> >> Andy
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> > That's o.k., the more the better ideas the better.
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> > IMO, though, if the bread cubes aren't totally dried all the way
> > through, they will get moldy/stale unless you keep them in the fridge,
> > and then they get moist.
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> > I keep the finished croutons in a regular plastic canister, inside a
> > cupboard. *I used to keep them in Ziplocs, but eventually the oil
> > soaks through the plastic - hard to believe, but it happens.
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> > I don't mind if they break when I stab one with a fork - even the
> > crumbs taste good. ;-)
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> > N.
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> Nancy2,
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> If restaurants only had fork sharpeners!? Nah... that would probably sound
> like chalk screeching across a chalkboard!!! I'll bet I'd fare better with
> the croutons though!
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> WAIT Nancy2... before you change your mind...
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> Waiter, Cobb salad for two please, and two hoagie rolls and a bottle of
> Ken's creamy Caesar salad dressing and lot's o' napkins and a bottle of Dom
> Perignon 1997!
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> ))
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> <smootch>
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> Andy
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Not only swaave, but swaave and debonur. LOL. Smooches back
atya. ;-)

N.