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  • in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of May 25, 2025? #46418
    chocomouse
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      I have oatmeal chocolate chip cookies in the oven as I write this. They will go to Maine with me tomorrow for our snacks. I'm looking forward to some time away from cooking and gardening. Sorry, Joan, the lemon blueberry muffins are gone, none left to go with me!

      in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of May 18, 2025? #46383
      chocomouse
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        Lemon-Blueberry muffins smell so good! I sprinkled lemon crumbles on the tops before baking.

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        in reply to: 2025 Gardens #46356
        chocomouse
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          That's great, Len! We had a Reliant peach about 30 years ago, but it never fruited; we are at the limits of it's cold temperature tolerance.

          in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of April 27, 2025? #46242
          chocomouse
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            Just back from a week in Maryland, where I had a nice visit with Skeptic! I also met a few "new" people who love to talk baking and shopping at KABC! To help all of us justify using lots of chocolate in our recipes, let me explain that chocolate is a healthy food. After all it comes from a bean, and beans are vegetables, and vegetables are a very healthy food, right?

            in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of April 27, 2025? #46187
            chocomouse
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              My husband rototilled our asparagus yesterday, before the stalks have started to emerge; it is usually around June 1st before we harvest any. However, the fiddleheads are above ground now so folks who like those are picking and eating them. Tomorrow I will plant lettuce, spinach, and peas before I leave for the Maryland Sheep and Wool festival, where I hope to meet up with Skeptic again!

              in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of April 27, 2025? #46177
              chocomouse
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                I made two loaves of whole wheat-rye bread this morning. This afternoon I made Joan's recipe for Lemon Oatmeal Sugar Cookies. However, my Breville countertop oven seemed to not bake correctly, as the tops were not cooked but the bottoms were brown. It appears the top bulbs are not working. It did seem to be fine for baking the bread earlier, which is cooked through. Bread is not as fussy as cookies! And the cookies are delicious!

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                in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of April 20, 2025? #46169
                chocomouse
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                  We had quesadillas for dinner - leftover pork, onions, sweet red peppers, and cheddar.

                  in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of April 20, 2025? #46161
                  chocomouse
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                    I just printed out the recipe Joan posted for Lemon Oatmeal Sugar Cookies. They look so good - I'll be making them tomorrow morning. I've been making some similar, just adding lemon and oatmeal to another recipe. Thanks, Joan, for enabling me! Lemon is a favorite flavor of mine, and oatmeal makes sugar cookies healthy, right?

                    in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of April 20, 2025? #46122
                    chocomouse
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                      Today I made two small (7") cheesecakes, a maple and a chocolate. I'll freeze the chocolate one for next week.

                      in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of April 13, 2025? #46102
                      chocomouse
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                        Dinner tonight was chicken thighs on the grill, along with grilled potato chunks and the last zip-lock bag of last year's asparagus. We'll have fresh asparagus from the garden in 6-8 weeks.

                        in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of April 13, 2025? #46101
                        chocomouse
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                          I made Blueberry Pie Bars for a potluck.

                          in reply to: Better Start Those Tomatoes #46083
                          chocomouse
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                            Why pick on tomatoes? What about a tariff on, say, okra? There is a large hydroponic tomato farm with year-round delicious tomatoes about one mile from my house - no tariffs there. But thinking about prepared salsa, ketchup, soups, sauces. . . . staples that most folks purchase regularly.

                            in reply to: 2025 Gardens #46082
                            chocomouse
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                              I have at least one problem chipmunk - he/she will pick a cherry tomato from the deck plant, peel it, eat the insides, and stash the peel in a pot with all of its other peels! I have to keep a wire mesh cage (with a top!) over the cherry tomato plant.

                              in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of April 13, 2025? #46061
                              chocomouse
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                                Dinner was easy tonight. I had leftovers from my meal at a Korean restaurant yesterday, so just added fresh vegetables to the stir fry and cooked some fresh rice. With the Korean barbecued short-ribs, it was a delicious meal.

                                in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of April 6, 2025? #46020
                                chocomouse
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                                  cwcdesign, about how much syrup would you want to purchase, say over the course of a year? He does wholesale, however, it's a small operation. I'll ask him when he gets home tonight. And thanks for thinking of his business - it's all through word-of-mouth!

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