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December 17, 2024 at 4:33 pm in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of December 15, 2024? #45001
That's a good deal, Joan. My grocery store has had KAF all-purpose flour at 3.99 for 5 lbs for a couple of weeks now. But last week I bought 50 lbs of Sir Lancelot, the commercial size, at the KABC store for $37.46, which was 20% off, on sale. What breaks my budget is the 2 or 3 lb bags of Super 10 or Harvest Grains or Pumpernickel for $14.95. I've been making Christmas cookies and do not want to use the regenerative whole wheat that I recently bought in those, but am anxious to try it.
If anyone is interested in a road trip -- KAF usually has a 20% off "friends and family" sale with 20% off most everything (except appliances, gift cards, and a couple more things) shortly before Easter. We could all meet for lunch in the Cafe. Their sandwiches are superb - on their own bread, of course, and amply filled with turkey, cheese, lettuce, your choices of course.
December 15, 2024 at 5:40 pm in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of December 15, 2024? #44979We had spaghetti and rye rolls from the freezer.
I baked several of the scooped and chilling molasses-ginger dough; my husband has not had cookies for a couple of weeks. You could send your excess eggs to me, navlys! Large white eggs are now about $5.00 a dozen here. Eggnog? Pavlova? Meringue?
Today I made mushroom soup. My grocery store was out of the Better Than Boullion without salt/low salt, so the soup really turned out too salty.
I had leftover bibimbap and roasted squash cubes.
I made a rum cake for my husband to take to a meeting tomorrow night. I still need to poke holes in the top with a toothpick and drizzle a glaze of butter, sugar, and rum over it. I also mixed molasses-ginger cookies for the Christmas Eve cookie tray. They have been chilling in the fridge, so tomorrow I will scoop and freeze the dough until that day.
We had pork chops and a broccoli-cheese-pasta dish.
Our dinner was bibambap, served on glass noodles. There is enough leftover for my lunch today.
I made 6 small pans of cranberry-orange bread to give as gifts this season. I used some of the orange peels I candied and chopped and fresh cranberies.
I baked an apple pie this morning; I never make pies. I don't eat them, and they usually look awful. My husband is thrilled!
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You must be logged in to view attached files.This morning I made two loaves of pumpernickel bread. Then I headed to KAF (sorry, KABC) to shop and meet my sister for lunch. Today they were having a sale of 20% of most everything (not appliances, gift cards, etc) and next Tuesday is 25% off (my husband does his Christmas shopping there). I bought another jar of the The Works, which is a fabulous topping for focaccia, (plus a jar for my son-in-law), a bag of organic rye flour, and a bag of the new regenerative whole wheat flour to try. For lunch, we split a ham and cranberry and a turkey and cheese sandwich. They were excellent - the bread was perfect, and there was lots of meat and lettuce in the sandwich. In the past, I have found the baked goods in the cafe are not that great. They are dry and actually seem to me to be like "day-old bread". If any one of you will be in the area anytime, please let me know and I can meet you in Norwich!
That's a great looking pie, Len. And the little drips of spillage are the baker's reward!
I have one of those pans, BakerAunt. It was my mother's, and is a great drip pan for a pie. The center part around the hole is raise a little, to lift the pan so there is plenty of room for drips and spills.
November 29, 2024 at 11:20 am in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of November 24, 2024? #44805I plan to cook our turkey breast on Sunday, because we went to our son's house for Thanksgiving dinner (luckily, I have a Jeep because there were 6 inches of unplowed/untreated snow on the back roads to get there; we had only 3 inches). He had brined and smoked a turkey, and it was the best I've ever had. I brought he two 7" cheesecakes I had made the previous day. I now have a 3 day old great-granddaughter, but she was staying in the NICU with some minor respiratory issues.
November 27, 2024 at 11:15 am in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of November 24, 2024? #44782I'm taking a break right now from making cheesecakes for tomorrow's dinner. One is a chocolate graham cracker base, with a thin layer of raspberry jam, and a filling swirled with chocolate and jam. The other is a regular graham cracker base and a filling with chopped candied orange peel (that I made from scratch) and chopped fresh cranberries. I use my regular cheesecake filling recipe, then divide it in half, for each kind of filling, and use two 7" springform pans.
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