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Let us know, Kimbob. My though is that it should work like buttermilk.
Joan--Have a wonderful trip and enjoy that sweet little great-granddaughter!
I made yogurt on Tuesday. I also made apple filling for Butterscotch Apple Sweet Rolls, which I plan to bake in a few days. I used eight small Winesap apples. My apples have kept well in the garage, where we keep the temperature in the upper 30s to low 40s, but I need to use them up. I usually make the filling with Rubenette apples, but those were only available briefly in the fall, and I am not sure that vendor will continue having them, so I want to see if the Winesaps will work in their place.
Glad to hear that Will is taking such good care of you, CWCdesign.
Monday night's dinner was leftover roast chicken and dressing, more of the applesauce, and a very nice green salad.
Picaridin also protects against chigger mite bites. I was able to avoid them last year when I picked blackberries. Note: it's not the chiggers, it's their mites that are the problem.
That's exactly what happened to me last week, Kimbob. I found the tick while showering. I finished up my antibiotics last Tuesday. From now on, I go into the woods doused in Picaridin, which works very well. (CWCdesign told me about it.) I got mine from REI.
We had an unconventional Easter dinner of roast chicken, Pepperidge Farm Dressing (Blue Bag, of course), and microwaved fresh broccoli, applesauce from the freezer, with more apple cake for dessert, as well as an Easter Egg York peppermint patty.
Oh, and the UCLA women won the basketball championship! This Bruin is quite happy about that.
We had the last of the pork loin slices for dinner on Saturday. I roasted potato chunks to go with them, and we also had microwaved frozen mixed vegetables.
I baked Hot Cross Buns on Good Friday. My recipe was adapted from one that ran in the Los Angeles Times food section sometime in the 1980s. I have adapted it over the years to make it more whole grain and to use some honey as well as sugar. It has never been a recipe that rises quickly, especially with the large quantity of whole wheat flour and some oats, even though I use the Gold yeast for sweet dough. Both rises required two hours each. In addition to the cup of golden raisins, I added ¼ cup each of candied orange peel and candied lemon peel that I rehydrated with a bit of orange and lemon juice, then mixed with the raisins, I used the Ankarsrum for the first time with this recipe that I have previously mixed and kneaded in the Zo bread maker. It worked very well, even in mostly incorporating the fruit when I added it at the end of kneading. I do not make the crosses but slather on glaze to cover the tops. We each ate two for dessert at dinner tonight. Scott though these were my best Hot Cross Buns ever, and I agree.
We had salad again with more of the coated pork loin slices I made last night. Then we had freshlyt baked Hot Cross Buns for dessert.
Kimbob--my favorite cornbread recipe has 1 Tbs. of sugar. I, too, dislike sweet cornbread.
I made wholegrain pumpkin waffles for breakfast on Thursday. We do not usually have waffles midweek, but today is the thirteenth birthday of Annie May (aka Merigang Songbird), our Australian Cattle Dog. So, we treated her to waffles for breakfast, then a nice long walk on the pedestrian/bike trail that starts at the town park. For dessert at dinner, she had some of her usual little bits of frozen vanilla yogurt as well as bits of one of the small four Apple Barley Cakes that I baked yesterday. It had been a good birthday for her, but alas, it is now raining with rumbles of thunder. So, she is in her bed on the floor next to my desk, with a fan on and her blanket over her.
For dinner, on Thursday, I made the pecan-Dijon-smoky paprika coated pork loin slices and roasted some potato chunks. Scott made a nice side salad for each of us using mixed greens from last Saturday's farmer's market. Annie had a bit of pork and potatoes as well.
Wednesday's dinner was leftover sourdough pan pizza from last night.
I baked Apple, Barley, and Olive Oil Bundt cakes on Wednesday. I use the Nordic Ware Quartet pan, which lets me make four small cakes. I will freeze at least two of them. I used the Vegalene spray, which usually works so well, but I had a bit of sticking, and more of a clean-up than I would have liked.
Very pretty, cake, Joan!
I have been craving pizza, so on Tuesday, I made sourdough pan pizza. This time, I added another ounce of water since the first crust I made with the Ankarsrum was somewhat dry. This one came out perfectly with the lightness I prefer in my crusts. Once the dough was mixed, I kneaded it on speed 2 for 5 minutes, and that was enough. The pizza came out very well.
I was a bit concerned when I was making the sauce while the dough was on its second rise, because we had a severe thunderstorm warning come up, along with two brief power outages of a couple of seconds, then perhaps 15 seconds. Winds were 60 mph, and a neighbor had part of a tree snap off and fall onto her driveway. Our next-door neighbors had water in their basement, and a neighbor further over also had water come into his house, although that is more a feature of that house's entryway. It was a fast, heavy rain. We did fine. There has been additional rain this evening, and just enough thunder to make Annie nervous. We turn the fan on high on her and put her blanket on her in her bed, and she feels as safe as she can.
I really like the Ron's Porridge Bread. It is not a bread that calls attention to itself, so it would be great with an assertive filling for sandwiches or with jam.
I baked Orange Scones (oil version) today to use my last two Cara Cara oranges. We each had a half of one at teatime.
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