Mixing Frozen, Fresh, and Room Temp: Specific Example?

Mixing Frozen, Fresh, and Room Temp: Specific Example?

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Somewhatfoolish

Original Poster:

4,371 posts

187 months

Sunday 21st November 2010
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Fancy some guidelines on this in general and some suggestions on this example on particular:

I want to cook with some ingredients of various storage temperatrues. Specifically, I wanna take some frozen garlic bread slices ( http://www.ocado.com/webshop/product/10-Garlic-Bre... to see what I mean) and add some pizza topping sauce, probably just room temperature napoli stuff although I may make my own, and add some chilled mozzerella and pepperoni, to make topped garlic bread. I could also consider adding some other toppings, which could be any temp... chilled, frozen, or warm.

So what should I sensibly do here... do I need to worry about various conflicting temperatures, or can I just mix em all together and stick in the oven?

Thanks for help in advance! thumbup

21TonyK

11,535 posts

210 months

Monday 22nd November 2010
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From what perspective are you concerned? From a cooking point of view I would lightly grill the buttered side of the garlic bread to crisp it a bit before adding sauce and toppings and returning to a hot oven. Otherwise you could just end up with a very soggy bit of bread with some warm sauce and cheese on top.

Edited by 21TonyK on Monday 22 November 08:09

escargot

17,110 posts

218 months

Monday 22nd November 2010
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This could be made a lot simpler by just buying a baguette, butter & some garlic.

Mix the butter and garlic with some salt & parsley and spread over the sliced baguette.

2 minutes & job done.

Somewhatfoolish

Original Poster:

4,371 posts

187 months

Thursday 25th November 2010
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The previous suggestions worked beautifully on Tuesday, thanks everyone!

(Apart from snaily, I guess. But the thought was there smile)