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Oops--Sorry, Janiebakes. I did not mean to confuse Aaron's reply with yours.
I have brought up the Whole Wheat Sourdough Cheese Cracker recipe under the recent recipe section on the right of the page. I needed to add another note about the recipe.
Additional Notes on Recipe:
I reduced the baking time with the Convection setting of 375F to 5 minutes and 50 seconds, then turn the sheet around for another 5 minutes 50 seconds. It does not seem like much, but that reduced the overly brown edged ones.
I am now using avocado oil to brush the crackers.
For dinner on Saturday, my husband roasted a turkey. As it has been hot and humid, he used the oven in the garage apt. I made muddled mashed potatoes (boiled red potatoes in skins, then roughly mashed with a bit of salt), gravy from the turkey drippings, and I roasted asparagus, cherry tomatoes, and mushrooms tossed in olive oil with a bit of garlic powder, salt, and pepper. The asparagus was fresh from the farmers market this morning.
On Saturday, I baked Blueberry Cobbler, using my adaptation of the recipe in the King Arthur Baking Book. I used frozen berries, so I baked an additional five minutes.
I also baked my Whole Wheat Sourdough Cheese Crackers
I also like to know the background of a recipe, even if the cook or baker significantly altered it. When I write up a recipe for myself, I include that in my notes.
Friday night’s dinner was Salmon and Couscous with Penzey’s Greek seasoning and microwaved frozen peas.
I baked six large Oatmeal Date Muffins this evening. The basic recipe is from The Los Angeles Times food section, probably at least 35 years ago. I adapted it by substituting ¼ cup oil for ¼ cup butter, adding 1 Tbs. milk powder and 2 tsp. flax meal, replacing the milk with buttermilk, cutting the salt in half, and reducing the baking powder to 1 tsp. and the baking soda to ¼ tsp.
Now that the pandemic is winding down (c'mon unvaccinated people, get your shots!), we have our first summer guest! My older stepson has come for ten days. So, there will be a lot of cooking and baking here! For dinner tonight, I made my Turkey Zucchini Meatloaf with Peach-Dijon Glaze along with roasted cut-up sweet potatoes that were tossed in olive oil. We also had microwaved fresh broccoli.
I agree about the coffee with chocolate, Janiebakes. I've been using the King Arthur espresso powder for years. My husband cannot stand coffee, but he does not detect it in chocolate items, because, as you say, it enhances the chocolate.
I tried coffee extract one time, and that he did not like.
What Janiebakes says makes sense. My favorite fudgy brownie recipe (no longer baked since butter can no longer be a major food group for me) called for melting the butter and heating the sugar with it. The melting of the sugar gave the fudginess, and I seem to recall that recipe also had 2 cups sugar. So, the more sugar to melt, the fudgier the brownies.
For dinner, on Wednesday, I made Salmon and Couscous with Penzey’s Greek Seasoning. We had microwaved frozen mixed vegetables on the side. We finished up the Strawberry-Blackberry Oat bars for dessert, but we also had fresh strawberries from yesterday’s farmers market. At $5 a quart, they are not inexpensive, but they are worth it. We no longer buy the tasteless supermarket fruit that passes for strawberries. We wait for the season and hope they show up at the farmers market.
Although it is in the 80s and humid, I baked Whole Grain Pumpkin Bread, a recipe posted at Nebraska Kitchen that I adapted. I baked it as 5 small loaves, so they required 40 minutes rather than the 30 minutes that six would, but I think they fill the pans better when I bake the recipe as five. I will freeze most of the loaves for quick desserts later.
CWCdesign--sometimes brownies improve on the second day, or maybe that's just the chocolate talking....
Tuesday’s dinner was fish and chips, using the last of the swai. (When we were at Aldi’s today, I looked at labels carefully and found the salmon.) I made a sauce for my fish to cover its flavor, using up the rest of some Greek yogurt to which I added 1 ½ tsp. Penzey’s Sunny Paris and ¼ tsp. garlic. It was tolerable, but I do not like the combination enough to make it again. We also had microwaved fresh broccoli.
On Monday, I made a batch of yogurt.
For Monday dinner, as we only had enough of the black-eyed peas w/ brown rice and ham for one, my husband ate that, and I pulled some frozen tomato sauce from last year’s garden. I sauteed onion, celery, and red bell pepper and mushrooms in olive oil, then added the sauce. I added 1 Tbs. tomato paste, 1 ½ tsp. Penzey’s Tuscan Italian seasoning, and a tablespoon each of Worcestershire sauce and red wine, along with some pepper. I mixed it with cooked Barilla Protein Plus pasta, which I bought on sale a while back and found in the pantry. It is a combination of semolina, grains and legumes. It holds together well when cooking. With freshly grated Parmesan, it made a nice dinner, and I have leftovers for lunches during the week.
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