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Great work, Rottiedogs!

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Italian Cook:

Although Rottiedogs posted the thread, the recipe is Wonky's. Let us know how your bread turned out. As Mike says, if you were able to shape it, it should be fine.

I also have to hike to get to my flour in my current kitchen--and out to the garage refrigerator to get the specialty ones. After doing some rearrangement two weeks ago, I finally was able to get my salt, baking soda, and baking powder out of the pantry and into a kitchen cabinet. It felt triumphant.

Let us know how your bread came out.

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Well, at least you got the picture in.

This does give us a duplicate on the recipe. If you are able to get the pictures in, maybe Mike can delete the ones without the pictures? I think that almost all her recipes have pictures.

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I actually keep a baking/cooking log on my computer. It helps me keep my own notes, and it makes it easier to post it to this site and to Zen's site.

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Aphids are a particular problem indoors, as there are no predators to control them. I had a similar problem with my lime tree, which was attacked by scale. My husband, a plant physiologist, helped me save it, and it spends its time outdoors, except in the winter or when there are freezing temperatures.

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I uploaded cwcdesigns recipes this morning. I am working on frick's. Outside, it's the fourth day of temperatures of 100 or higher, so air conditioning and iced tea while transferring recipes seems like a good way to spend the day. (I did bake some rolls as well.)

We have passed 1400 recipes now. I think that we do have some doubles, since people sometimes posted other people's recipes among theirs--always giving credit to the original poster--sometimes because the recipe was in a thread, and they wanted it found easily, or sometimes because it was from the OBC, and they worried that it would be lost since the o.p. was no longer active. I don't know of any way of sorting that out, and some of the comments are different, and there are usually some tweaks.

Note: Frick's recipes have now been uploaded: all 76 pages! That should bump up our overall number of recipes rather nicely.

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Italian Cook: I had to giggle, since when I bought my first house, one of my requirements was that it had to have an oven (or the ability for me to install one) that would bake three loaves at a time.

pmiker, one of our BC people, who I miss, regularly baked 4-6 loaves of bread. I was always amazed at how he got them arranged in his oven. He also has a mixer that can handle that much dough. My 7-qt Cuisinart can only handle dough for three loaves.

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I have posted my chicken, sweet potatoes, maple syrup, and rosemary recipe.

It's also good on roasted chicken breasts with potatoes and carrots roasted along side.

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Rottiedogs: I have e-mailed you the thread for Annabelle's Lair.

brianjwoods recipes are daunting because there are so many of them. You have made great progress with them.

Italian Cook: Thank you for the encouragement. I actually have more time to experiment with recipes in the summer when I'm not teaching, so in spite of the heat, I push on. My "What Did You Cook" thread shows that most of my cooking is rather simple. My husband does not do well with tomato sauce or assertive spices or onions, so some of my more interesting repertoire rarely gets cooked.

All: In re-reading some of the threads as I posted them, I feel nostalgic for the way that so many people jumped in, and I always learned so much, as well as became inspired to try new recipes. I miss that and hope that eventually we will have that sense again of a neighborhood kitchen.

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I added Zen's and Sheryle's this evening. We are now at over 1300 recipes.

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Parades are the best celebration, especially when they are local.

We had lots of fireworks going off around us. We've been holding the trembling dog for several days now. She does not express it by acting out; instead she draws into herself and shakes and pants hard. There is nothing we can do but project a calming presence. I expect it will continue for some days to come, even though fireworks in the city are illegal. I found one spent rocket right up next to our house.

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I added tarrka1089 and sarahh this morning.

I'm feeling a bit discouraged. Mike set up this wonderful website. Sarah, Rottiedogs, and I have been working to upload BC threads and recipes. I'm surprised that more people have not uploaded their recipes or threads, especially since swirth put so much time into helping members find items before the BC closed. I'm also disappointed that so few people appear to be coming to this site. I'd hate to think that KAF was right when they closed down the Baking Circle in favor of social media. Or maybe they were right that the BC had become more social and not that much about baking.

Zen's website really hasn't gotten that much activity either. Very little has been posted on the What Did You Bake and What Did You Cook threads on either site. It is very hot in my part of Texas, with temperatures in the lower 100s, so maybe other parts of the country are also dealing with heat.

I will keep uploading what I have--even with my broadband periodically cutting out so that I have to re-do the recipe I just did. It would be nice, however, to see some signs of vitality.

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Even though the sourdough-cheddar cracker dough rested in the refrigerator for four days until I had time to bake them, they are the best ones I've baked so far. This time, all my added flour was whole wheat. (I find that my discarded starter needs an additional 1/4 cup of flour, and I'd been using AP). The rest time, in my experience, makes the dough a lot easier to roll out. I also try to make a square-ish rectangle, which in my oven bakes more evenly.

The cookies were great. Although I held out 1/2 cup of peanuts when I added the 1/2 cup of chocolate chips, next time, I will do a full cup of each. Once I get the recipe where I want it, I will post it.

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I've now done Granny's and Judel's recipes.

I also uploaded the one recipe that I managed to post on the KAF site. (This was going to be the summer when I posted a lot of them. Sigh.)

I went ahead and posted Annabelle's Lair (Nebelwesen's ) recipes, even though I cannot include the pictures.

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Thanks, Mike. I have made the changes.

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