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  • in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of December 22, 2024? #45062
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      We are having more of the beef stew this Christmas Eve, which is good, because I am still baking more tonight for Christmas.

      in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of December 22, 2024? #45056
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        Skeptic--I also can never get the fruit evenly distributed after the dough has had its first rise. I often cheat and just put it in the dough when I mix it before the first rise. With the bread machine, I wait and add it when the machine beeps. That seems to do a pretty good job..

        I agree that your rolls sound really good!

        in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of December 22, 2024? #45055
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          On Monday, I made beef and vegetable stew for dinner. The stew meat and the potatoes came from vendors at our farmers' market. It has been a cold, rainy day, so the stew was perfect.

          I also finally had the chance to try out my Weston Deluxe Electric Food Mill on a double recipe of applesauce today. The instructions that come with it are minimal, so I watched a few You Tube videos to get some tips on working with apples and on how to set it up so that the sauce can flow more easily into my container. I ended up putting a large bowl on a couple of boxes on a stool next to the counter. While I did have to cut the apples into pieces (my recipe does not peel, core, or remove any seeds) so that it would work with the mill, the processing of each 5 lb. and 3 oz. of apples was amazingly quick. It does leave small pieces of skin, but they are too small to be a problem, and I like the chunkier texture. I have at least 10 lbs. more apples to process, but those will wait until after Christmas. I froze three quarts and set one aside for Christmas dinner.

          in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of December 22, 2024? #45047
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            I hope you sat down for a while with your feet up, Joan! That is quite the accomplishment, and I know all the recipients will be excited to receive your baking.

            in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of December 22, 2024? #45041
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              I made yogurt on Sunday for the first time since before we went on vacation. It will be good to have it at breakfast again.

              I also roasted a peanut pumpkin. I had two, but one burst open overnight and made a mess. Usually, I would have processed the pumpkins by now, but there were just too many demands on my time in the autumn. I was particularly sorry to lose a peanut pumpkin, as I think the puree consistency is particularly well-suited to cakes and my cakey version of pumpkin bread.

              We finished the turkey, spinach, and rice casserole tonight. It really holds up well.

              in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of December 15, 2024? #45033
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                Here's hoping that the part for Mike's refrigerator arrives soon!

                I was going to make stew today, as I need to use some potatoes, and I was able to buy a pound of stew meat at the farmers' market. However, the stew meat is frozen, so we had more of the turkey, spinach, and rice casserole. It does hold up well.

                in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of December 15, 2024? #45032
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                  Italian Cook--I'm glad that you liked the peanut butter oatmeal cookie recipe.

                  Wow, Joan! You had a busy day of baking, too!

                  What I really want is a taste of what Mike is baking.

                  On Saturday, I baked a double batch of King Arthur's Spiced Rye Ginger Cookies. My only changes are to add 1 Tbs. milk powder per recipe and to halve the salt. I used a #40 scoop, which gave me 47 cookies. I rolled them in equal parts of white, red, and green sparkling sugar. (King Arthur used to sell the sparkling sugar in colors other than white but stopped doing so.) A dozen of these will be a gift to our neighbors. These cookies are delectably spicy.

                  After baking the cookies, I experimented with making Eggnog scones by adapting a King Arthur recipe so that I used canola oil rather than butter. I was able to find a low-fat eggnog at the grocery when we did our shopping run, but I had to buy lactose-free to get it and to avoid eggnog with high-fructose corn syrup. I splurged and used 90 g of cinnamon chips and added ½ cup of chopped pecans. I will try a couple for breakfast tomorrow.

                  Next Day Update: I had two of the scones for breakfast. They are firmer than butter scones but still delicious. I used half whole wheat pastry flour and half King Arthur AP. I might try replacing the AP with white pastry flour next time.

                  in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of December 15, 2024? #45025
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                    We had more of the turkey, spinach, and rice casserole I made yesterday. It is more flavorful today than when I first cooked it. I think that we can get two more meals from it.

                    in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of December 15, 2024? #45019
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                      I baked Whole Wheat Sourdough Cheese Crackers on Friday from dough I made earlier in the week. My husband is happy as he has been without his beloved crackers for several days.

                      in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of December 15, 2024? #45015
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                        I looked in the bread holder on Thursday afternoon and realized that there was just one thin slice left, so I baked my version of King Arthur's Pompanoosuc Porridge Bread. I use a long, thinner loaf pan for it, which makes for nicely sized slices.

                        in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of December 15, 2024? #45014
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                          Before Thanksgiving, an email from Stonyfield Yogurt had a recipe for Turkey Casserole that I thought showed promise. I needed to use the rest of the turkey we had frozen after Thanksgiving before we left for our trip, so on Thursday, I used it as a basis to make what I am calling Turkey, Spinach, and Rice Casserole. My ingredient changes were using whole wheat flour and replacing the dried basil with celery salt. I also used Fage non-fat Greek yogurt because that is what I have. I replaced the fresh spinach with cooked frozen spinach. I added 8 oz. of sliced mushrooms. I used brown basmati rice, which I cooked in turkey broth from the freezer, and I added the broth not used in the rice cooker, to the sauce. I also did not layer it but mixed it all together, put it in a 9 x 13" Emile Henry casserole dish and warmed for 20 minutes. It is slightly bland, but my husband likes bland. It made enough for three nights, so I will get a break from cooking tomorrow and can focus on other kitchen projects.

                          in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of December 15, 2024? #45012
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                            On Thursday, I finally had time to use the spaghetti squash that I had roasted last week to bake my adaptation of Ken Haedrich's Spaghetti Squash and Parmesan Cheese Quiche for lunch today and for the next five days. I have adapted it to replace butter with olive oil, heavy cream with low-fat evaporated milk, and an oil crust. For my crust recipe, I replaced the whole wheat pastry flour with fine cornmeal (by weight). I used 1/3 cup of canola with enough olive oil for half a cup, because I did not know how the cornmeal would work with the oil. I like the flavor. Back when I was making butter crusts, I used a cornmeal butter crust recipe, so it was great to know that I can adapt my oil recipe to make a cornmeal crust.

                            in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of December 15, 2024? #45010
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                              We went and got our Christmas tree on Wednesday at a Christmas tree farm about 30 minutes from us. They did not have many left, but we found a lovely white fir. That inspired me to bake a double recipe of my soft sugar cookies that use avocado oil instead of butter. I decorated a little over half with red and green sugar, and the rest with some red, green, and white sprinkles. I hope to bake more Christmas cookies tomorrow.

                              in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of December 15, 2024? #45009
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                                We had the rest of the stir-fry tonight.

                                Joan--Thank you, again, for the sweets!

                                in reply to: MIT decision due today #45003
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                                  Sending positive thoughts that she will be on that list!

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