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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.
For dinner on Sunday, I roasted two bone-in chicken breasts and made a farro-vegetable stir-fry with carrots, celery, green onion, yellow bell pepper, mushrooms, and spinach. I had meant to grab the kale and did not realize until I had washed it that I had the bag of spinach from the farmers market instead. Any green works in stir-fry, and we are enjoying the ones coming to the market.
Well, a 50 lb. bag would be a LOT of pies. Thanks for trying to find a solution for me, Mike. I have now located a white whole wheat pastry flour vendor but not a white pastry flour one. Perhaps I can do without the latter.
I checked at Joseph's Grainery, where I buy my barley flour, and they carry whole wheat pastry flour. It comes in either 8 lb. or 16 lb. bags. I find that an 8 lb. bag of barley flour lasts me about a year. That is likely the case for whole wheat pastry flour, which I also use in quick bread and cracker recipes.
https://josephs-grainery.square.site/
The price for an 8 lb. bag of white whole wheat pastry flour is $28.60, which at $3.57 per pound is less expensive than King Arthur's 4 lb. bag at $16.95, which is $4.237 per pound.
Joseph's Grainery has FREE priority mail shipping! That lowers the price more.
I have ordered a bag of each, as I am also running low on barley flour.
I may experiment to see if I can make my buttermilk-oil pie crust with all white whole wheat pastry flour. If not, I will continue seeking another source for white pastry flour or grudgingly buy it from KABC when they have a purported special offer.
I remembered today that BRM also discontinued their ivory wheat flour, which is white whole wheat flour, which is why I have to buy it from King Arthur. With KABC, what bugs me is not so much the price but the expensive shipping costs. I will continue looking for another source. I actually liked the BRM ivory better than King Arthur's Golden Wheat, which is what they now call their white whole wheat flour.
I made yogurt on Saturday. My husband cooked pan-cooked some pork, and I roasted sweet potato chunks and microwaved fresh broccoli to go with it. My older bonus son arrived last night and will be visiting for about two weeks, so I expect to be cooking and baking more than usual.
We are still having cold nights. It was in the 40s last night and will be again overnight. We are probably having our last fire in the wood stove until next fall.
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Your muffins look delicious, Chocomouse.
I had a busy baking Saturday. I baked Pumpkin Snacking Cake for dessert for the next few nights. I also baked two loaves of Whole Wheat Buttermilk Grape Nuts bread.
We had yet another cool day. That is three nights with a fire in the woodstove for a while to warm the house enough for overnight. We had some of the soup I made earlier in the week for dinner.
We had leftover sourdough pan pizza for dinner tonight.
Your refrigerator pickles look great, Joan!
We had leftover pasta and cheese, mine with asparagus, and my husband's plain. He had some microwaved fresh broccoli. We split the last pecan-crusted boneless pork chop.
Joan, I think that I have had Driscoll blackberries. One of their great advantages is that they are not as seedy as our wild blackberries.
We had sourdough pan pizza for dinner.
That is great that you have peaches developing on your tree, Len. When I was in high school my family had a wonderful peach tree that produced lots of peaches each season. We froze a lot to use for cobblers and pies throughout the year.
Nice tomatoes, Mike! I am so looking forward to tomato season.
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!
My husband has planted four bell pepper plants. He planted two different clusters of cucumbers, that we hope will become pickles. I was able to buy a dill plant and a cherry tomato plant at the farmers' market from the same vendor I used last year. I have an order in with him for more plants next week. He had a lower stock this past Saturday because one of his tunnels was damaged by last Friday's windstorm AND he had a tree fall on his house. My husband has a couple of other tomato plants he started, but he is not sure how well they are doing. We will probably do potatoes again this year. He is not planting any squash, since the honey nut ones were so disappointing last year. He is doing Fairy Tale Pumpkins in a grow bag again this year. He started them earlier, so perhaps we will get larger ones than last year. At some point, he will start green beans.
For dinner on Monday, I made soup using 1 ¾ cups of Bob's Red Mill mixture of green and red lentils and split green and yellow peas and barley. I add sauteed ground turkey, carrots, celery, yellow bell pepper, mushrooms, a tablespoon of dried onion that I rehydrate, and about 7 cups of turkey broth from the freezer. I use a tablespoon of Penzey's Ozark blend. At the end, I sauté kale in olive oil and then stir it into the soup along with freshly ground black pepper. We have leftovers for later in the week.
I'm sad for you, Mike, that the asparagus grew when you weren't looking.
Joan--are those blackberries from nearby bushes? Our wild blackberries are blooming in the woods. The black raspberries are about finished with their blooms. Now we need the right kind of rain, so that the fruit can develop.
I baked Whole Wheat Sourdough Cheese Crackers on Sunday from dough I made last week.
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