I made two loaves of pumpernickel bread, with caraway and dill seeds! Dinner tonight will be sliced tomatoes on fresh bread.

I'm happy to share with you, Joan. We should have some left tomorrow. . . and one loaf is in the freezer. I love pumpernickel!

I made lemon pie for the Poker game tomorrow night.Store bought graham cracker crust. It turned out looking good.

Ah, Joan is going all in at tonight's poker game! 🙂

Last night's thunderstorm helped cool us down a bit, so on Thursday morning, I baked a new recipe, "Deli Rye Rolls," from the King Arthur site. I used measuring cups for the flour and wrote down my own weights. My AP flour, at 302 g was close to their measurement of 300 g, but my pumpernickel weight was 174 g, compared to their weight of 135 g, a significant difference. I replaced the tablespoon of vital wheat gluten with 1 Tbs. first clear flour. I replaced 1 cup of the water with a cup of buttermilk. I deleted the 3 Tbs. of dried onions but included ¼ tsp. of Penzey's toasted dried onion powder. I reduced the salt by a third. In place of their Deli Rye flavoring, I used 2 tsp. caraway, 1 ¼ tsp. mustard seed and 1 1/4 tsp. dill seed. The first and second rises were just 45 minutes each, but the temperature in the house was 79 F. I made twelve buns, but they are a little small, so next time I will make just ten. I did not do the egg white, water, and molasses topping or sprinkle them with Everything Bagel or poppy seeds out of deference to my husband. I'll have to wait until tomorrow to report on the taste of the rolls, because I had one with a salmon patty with a slice of onion, which covered up most of the roll's flavor. Worth it.

Thank y'all for the sweet comments on my pie, taste test soon.

When I had my early afternoon tea on Saturday, I realized that there were only two cookies remaining from those I baked on Monday. Clearly, my husband has been hitting them rather hard. I decided to bake a full recipe of my healthier take on Oatmeal Scotchies, using Nestle butterscotch chips. I could not find the Nestles chips at Walmart or my local store, but Kroger had bags of the Nestle butterscotch chips a few months ago, so I bought two. While the chips are little saturated fat bombs, sometimes it is nice to indulge. I do make the cookies with white whole wheat flour (what King Arthur now styles as golden wheat), substitute ½ cup of avocado oil for the butter, add 2 Tbs. each of milk powder and flax meal, and add a half cup of sunflower kernels. Of course, they use oats. The secret ingredient is the ½ tsp. of orange extract. I used a #30 scoop and got 44 cookies. I told Scott that this batch needs to last for at least a week.