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  • in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of March 23, 2025? #45922
    BakerAunt
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      I'll bet that pizza tasted as wonderful as it looks, CWCdesign!

      in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of March 23, 2025? #45917
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        On Wednesday, my husband pan-cooked some boneless pork ribs and I roasted sweet potato chunks tossed in olive oil. We had microwaved frozen mixed vegetables as well.

        in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of March 23, 2025? #45914
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          That's a lovely stir-fry, Len.

          Glad you are on the mend, Joan.

          We had more of the soup for dinner, I started feeling under the weather last night, so I took it easy today.

          in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of March 23, 2025? #45902
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            We had more of the soup for dinner tonight.

            in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of March 23, 2025? #45888
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              I made yogurt on Sunday

              I also made turkey broth, using the bones from our Thanksgiving turkey, which have been taking up freezer space. I used a large oval Staub pot, which nicely holds the turkey bones to make the broth, which I strained into a bowl.

              I used the same Staub pan, with about 75% of that broth, to make soup, thus making my husband happy that there was not an extra pot to wash. The soup's additional ingredients were browned ground turkey, 2 cups of Bob's Red Mill Vegi-Mix (split green and yellow peas, red and brown lentils, and barley), sauteed chopped carrots, celery, and yellow bell pepper, sliced mushrooms, rehydrated dried onion, a tablespoon of Penzey's Ozark seasoning, and then, at the end of cooking, I add kale sauteed in olive oil. It began raining in the late afternoon on a chilly day, so soup is perfect for tonight, with enough left for at least four more meals. I froze the remaining turkey broth.

              in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of March 16, 2025? #45883
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                We are finishing the hamburger stroganoff tonight with microwaved broccoli as the vegetable.

                in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of March 16, 2025? #45882
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                  I baked Apple, Barley, and Olive Oil Cakes on Saturday. I split the batter between 1 6-cup regular Bundt pan and a 3-cup Kaiser Bundt pan. I will freeze the smaller one. Tomorrow, we will begin eating the larger one. I still have some apples to use up. Although they are getting a bit wrinkly, they are not soft. These were supposedly traditional Winesaps, but I think they are too large for that and must be the newer variety. They just do not soften up in pie, which is why I still have them around. They do best in either apple crisp or in a recipe like this cake which requires grated apples. The food processor made quick work of the grating.

                  in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of March 16, 2025? #45880
                  BakerAunt
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                    We had more of the hamburger stroganoff, but we had microwaved frozen mixed vegetables with it.

                    in reply to: A Feeder for Sourdough Starter? #45876
                    BakerAunt
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                      I prefer unfussy sourdough starters that do not require daily feeding. Mine gets used about every two weeks now, thanks to my husband's insatiable desire for crackers, but it has gone for over a month and still recovered. I have been working to use it more in breads. It is also what I use for my pan pizza crust.

                      in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of March 16, 2025? #45875
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                        I started the day on Friday by baking Pumpkin Streusel Muffins and having two for breakfast. I then made my version of Peanut Butter Honeys, a recipe that Mumpy, from the former King Arthur Baking Circle, posted there, and which I moved to Nebraska Kitchen when King Arthur unceremoniously dissolved the site. My changes are minor to increase nutritional value. I use white whole wheat flour, natural crunchy peanut butter, and add 2 Tbs. milk powder and 1 Tbs. flax meal. I was about 5 g short on peanut butter and did not want to open another jar, so I used almond butter to make up the difference. (I have metric weights for the honey and peanut butter to avoid having to clean our measuring cups.) These little cookies go surprisingly well with tea.

                        in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of March 16, 2025? #45866
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                          I made my healthier version of my mom's Hamburger Stroganoff for dinner on Thursday, which we had over a mixture of 2/3 long grain brown rice to 1/3 wild rice mix. It's a comfort food for a chilly, normal Midwestern spring day. We had microwaved fresh broccoli with it.

                          in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of March 16, 2025? #45859
                          BakerAunt
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                            We finished up the pork tenderloin, mashed potatoes, and coleslaw on Wednesday.

                            in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of March 16, 2025? #45858
                            BakerAunt
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                              I baked Whole Wheat Sourdough Cheese Crackers on Wednesday from dough I made last week. As my husband finished the previous batch yesterday, I needed to get these done today.

                              in reply to: Honey vs Maple Syrup #45854
                              BakerAunt
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                                Ok, I found the information tucked away in one of my recipe binders.

                                1 cup honey to 3/4 cup maple syrup.

                                It does not say anything about adding more sugar or accounting for water, but I assume the lesser amount takes care of that.

                                I used this conversion in creating a maple cookie recipe with no butter from a honey cookie recipe. The honey cookie used 4 Tbs., and I used 3 Tbs. maple syrup. I also added 2 Tbs. maple sugar and 1 Tbs. granulated sugar, maybe because I wanted them sweeter. I also used 1/8 tsp. maple extract to up the flavor.

                                As for why someone might want the substitution, some vegans do not eat honey, although challah has eggs, so clearly this person is not a vegan. Perhaps there is an allergy?

                                in reply to: Honey vs Maple Syrup #45853
                                BakerAunt
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                                  Sigh. I know that I posted a conversion here at Nebraska Kitchen, but it is not coming up in a search. I'm not sure that the search feature is working.

                                  I had this same question on a recent recipe and Google, which was helpful in the past has now become unhelpful for this question. I think that honey is sweeter than maple syrup, so you might have to increase sugar.

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