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!
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.
I 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.
I'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.
BakerAunt, I bought my blue bag Pepperidge Farm dressing a month ago, just to be sure the store didn't run out of them before this week! If there are any left next time I shop, I'll buy one for the pantry this winter.
I made spaghetti squash with a pizza filling for our dinner. There's enough leftover for tomorrow night also.
Our dinner tonight was roasted honeynut squash and brussels sprouts, with salmon brushed with maple syrup.
Skeptic, I know that some people freeze milk - maybe you should consider doing that? I'd try it, and put it in 1/2 cup or 1 cup portions, depending on how you might use it.
I made salads for dinner: seafood, and ditalini with celery, onion, orange sweet pepper, peas, and cheddar with a honey mustard dressing, and leftover broccoli salad.
Dinner was boneless pork chops pan-fried with sliced apples and onions; and roasted veggies: brussels sprouts, carrots, potatoes, squash, onions, and sweet red peppers.
I made focaccia and topped it with KAF's "The Works".
That sounds delicious, Skeptic!
