Day 273 (Osher Ad)

The Gordons invited me to join them in their excursion to Osher Ad, a grocery store in Jerusalem that is the closest thing to Costo that Israel has. It's not Costco, but they do carry larger packages than are typically sold, so I see why people say that. Osher Ad also carries some Kirkland products, so again, easy to see why it's closer to Costco than your local mini-mart. Nice as the store is, I shall not be swayed from my Rami Levy loyalty. (A), I love our Rami Levy and no uppity Osher Ad can come between us and (b), it takes almost no gas (or time) to get to Rami Levy, and the same cannot be said of Osher Ad. It was nice to visit another grocery store, though!

We made homemade pizza with the dough I prepared last night (Serious Eats' New York Pizza Dough). The dough was ridiculously easy to work with, and it was delicious. It was also reasonably easy to make, though it does require forethought: the dough needs to rise in the fridge for at least 24 hours before using. The other cool thing about the pizza dough is that they also list the recipe as baker's percentages. This is the first I've heard of baker's percentages, and I am a fan.

Here's the ingredient list the easy way:

All-purpose or bread flour: 100%
Sugar: 2%
Salt: 1.5%
Instant yeast: 1.5 %
Olive oil: 5%
Water: 67%

I foolishly used 1.275kg of flour (allowing me to double the recipe as it was listed with the instructions), but next time I'll just use 1kg (1000g). Then it's an easy 20g sugar, 15g salt, 15g yeast, 50g oil, and 670g water. Boom! Scaling a recipe up and down has never been easier.
In preparation for Shabbos and to use up the bag of frozen bananas we have in the freezer (and to get good use out of the Bosch as long as it was sitting on the kitchen counter), I made banana custard. I'm quite proud of how it turned out since I made up the recipe as I went along. For the record, it's one small carton of whipped topping, three or four bananas, lots of junky vanilla pudding (I have a dream that one day, Israeli pudding manufacturers will suddenly decide that their customers actually want their pudding to gel), some amaretto that turned out to taste gross, a tiny bit of almond extract, and some dried coconut. Boom!