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[Mike Nolan]

I also brought back 50 pounds of Ardent Mills pastry flour. For $26, couldn't really pass that up. I also got 3 more 16x22 (2/3 size) sheet pans and a few smallware items.

The car was REALLY full for the trip home!

[Mike Nolan]

For our first night back after 10 nights on the road, we went with a rotisserie chicken from Sams.

Tomorrow we will be having Chicago hot dogs (with Vienna hot dogs and buns bought in Illinois) for lunch and Italian Beef Sandwiches (for me) for supper, with a kit we bought at a Portillo's location on the way home. Also bought some Rocky Mountain chocolates and some chocolates from a local store in Galena Il. (Rocky Mountain chocolates are always good, the ones from the local store ranged from OK to pretty good.)

Came back with 4 full coolers: One with 16.5 pounds of Callebaut semi-sweet chocolate callets and other chocolates, another with the meat, one with about 25 bottles of wine from various wineries in Illinois and Pennsylvania and the 4th one was beverages and snack foods for the road.

Last Sunday we had a graduation celebration brunch with a number of Kelita's classmates and friends and their parents. The restaurant (Casbah) served some breakfast pastries that included a sumac mini-muffin, sweet but not overpoweringly so. I bought some ground sumac berries at Penzey's in Pittsburgh and am going to see if I can come up with a recipe for them. I'm guessing there was some buttermilk in them, and there are recipes for buttermilk sumac muffins online.

[RiversideLen]

Thanks for the pic, Joan. A sandwich for tomato lovers!

Yesterday I made pork tenderloin on the BBQ grill. I had it with leftover mashed potatoes and sugar snap peas. I reheat the potatoes by making patties, sprinkled with parm, in a non stick skillet, until the bottom is golden brown (the parm side).

[BakerAunt]

We were down to our last slice of bread, so on Wednesday, I baked three loaves of Whole Wheat Buttermilk Oat Bran Bread. Two will go into the freezer.

Skeptic--If you have some tomato paste, you can mix it with some water and some seasonings for an improvised tomato sauce. I have also used Muir fire-roasted tomatoes (15 oz. can) and cooked them down in a pan in which I first heat some minced garlic in a bit of olive oil. In fact, that is the pizza sauce I make when I do not have any fresh tomatoes or frozen in the freezer.

[RiversideLen]

What I saw on the news yesterday was to dust yourself (tick prone areas) and your dog with diatomaceous earth after coming back from tick prone areas. Some of the ticks are so small they can't be seen with the naked eye, and those are often the ones that spread disease.

[skeptic7]

I did steamed plain bao ( mantou) from the KAF Taiwanese Bao recipe. I made this drier than previous recipes so it held its shape better instead of just falling over like a pancake. I like the results but a slightly wetter dough would be easier to handle. Maybe I'll add an additional tablespoon of water next time.

[BakerAunt]

We do not usually do anything special for Memorial Day, but I made our favorite potato salad today. I made a change in that instead of boiling the potatoes, I steamed them. I think that it improved taste and texture, and I will make that change permanent.

I bought a pound of hamburger at the farmers market on Saturday, and my elder bonus son grilled hamburgers for us. (My husband has many skills, but grilling is not one of them.) I had four buns in the freezer (Len's recipe), so I pulled them out. Our charcoal "grill" is a very old, low to the ground one that belonged to Scott's parents. I think that we last used it two years ago.

[Mike Nolan]

Our cat is an indoors-only cat since losing his left eye (someone shot him with a bb gun), but when he was allowed outdoors the foxes would bark at him until we let him back in.

[BakerAunt]

I baked Spiced Rye Ginger Cookies (a KABC recipe) on Sunday. My only two changes are to halve the salt and add a tablespoon of milk powder. I rolled them in a combination of white, red, and blue coarse sugar from King Arthur, which does not sell the colored coarse, sparkling sugars anymore, just the white.

[Mike Nolan]

Some KABC products are available on Amazon, which, if you have Prime, usually means free shipping, but their pastry flour isn't one of them. There is a 5 pound bag of‎ Despensa Colombiana (sounds Italian but it says made in USA) pastry flour on Amazon for $15, but that's still quite a bit more than the BRM pastry flour was. I may have to try the Azure Standard one. (Getting to the $50 minimum order on things I want might take me a while.)

[Mike Nolan]

Webstaurant has 50 pounds of patent pastry flour, made from soft red wheat, for about $20, but I've ordered other flours from them before and shipping was more like $50 for a 50 pound bag. Not to mention that's more pastry flour than I'd use in 5 or more years.

Stovers in Cheswick Pennsylvania also has 50 pounds of pastry flour for about $25, but shipping might be an issue with them as well, and I don't know the flour brand's reputation.

I'll be going through Indiana next month when we go to our granddaughter's HS graduation in Pittsburgh, and am hoping to stop at Stover's at some point, but I'm not sure what route we're taking on the way back. If we use I-80 I think we're north of you, if we use I-70 (so we can stop in Columbus OH at the North Market), we'd probably be fairly south of you.

Update: I was just looking over the list of vendors at the North Market and there's been a lot of turnover there, several of the vendors I was hoping to visit are no longer there, so that probably means we'll be using I-80 on the way home, which is about an hour faster anyway.

[Joan Simpson]

Len I love these pickles and they keep for weeks in the fridge.

I made some refrigerator pickles yesterday so good and easy.
7-cups sliced cucumbers thin(I peeled mine)
1-large onion sliced thin
1-bell pepper sliced thin in long strips
Mix all together and sprinkle 1 tablespoon of salt place in colander and let drain 1-hour
In small pot heat
2 cups sugar (I did a little less)
1-cup brown vinegar I used white
1-tsp celery seed
1-tsp mustard seed ( I didn't have any and they are very good without.)
Bring to a boil and pour over cucumbers cool and refrigerate,so good they're ready to eat in no time and keeps very well for several weeks.

[RiversideLen]

Those are great looking tomatoes, Mike.

My peach tree was started from a pit by my neighbor's father; he did a lot of fruit trees that way. My neighbors had one too, but it fell apart a couple of years ago. My tree doesn't look great, but at least I'll have this season (it has peeling bark). For years it produced tiny peaches but after pruning it about 5 years ago, it started producing normal size fruit. There's a lot of tiny peaches on it right now, so I'm hoping for a nice crop.

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[BakerAunt]

I agree with Joan, Skeptic. Those pancakes sound delicious, and I am making a note of your excellent idea to get around turning on the oven when it is hot. I like blueberries with maple syrup on oatmeal, so I am sure strawberries would work for that too.

It was a rainy, cool Tuesday with temperatures only reaching the mid-50s, so Scott started a fire in the woodstove this evening. We are glad to see the rain. It has been too dry this month. I did three major baking projects. My first was the Everything Bagel Pumpernickel Bread (King Arthur recipe) that I first baked some weeks ago. I do not top it with seeds. I want to try slices with a light cream cheese and also with egg salad. My second project was Sourdough Pan pizza for dinner, with all of the usual toppings. My final project was a streusel-topped cherry pie, using three jars of Morello cherries. Aldi's has these once a year, so I look for them in the later winter and early spring. (When I lived near a Trader Joe's, they often had them for much of the year.) The recipe comes from Baking Illustrated. I used my oil, parbaked crust and substitute a streusel rather than a lattice top. I use the same technique for baking as with my blueberry pie, in that I initially bake the pie with a foil cap, then take it off the last ten minutes. My husband is especially looking forward to the cherry pie.

Have a wonderful visit with your friends and family, Joan!

[BakerAunt]

For Sunday dinner, we warmed up two of the pecan-crusted boneless pork chops from yesterday. I cooked about 8 oz. of cavatappi pasta, then mixed it with olive oil and a crumbled 4 oz. log of goat cheese. I divided it in half, so that Scott could have his with no addition. I added 3 ½ oz. of cut asparagus that I had sauteed in olive oil to my half, along with some reconstituted dried shallots and a bit of dried tarragon (both from Penzey's) and some freshly grated black pepper. Scott microwaved some fresh broccoli for his vegetable.

I do not know if we are at the end of asparagus season or not. It has been challenging for the farmers market vendors with the rapid shifts in the weather, not to mention the high winds and dust storm we had on Friday.