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  • in reply to: What are You Cooking the Week of April 26, 2020? #23278
    chocomouse
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      We had cheese and veggie omelets with English muffins.

      in reply to: What are You Cooking the Week of April 26, 2020? #23260
      chocomouse
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        We had ham and potato soup, a recipe I just found a couple weeks ago -it was delicious and I'll make it again. More snow forecast for tonight, but it won't last long.

        in reply to: What are You Cooking the Week of April 19, 2020? #23164
        chocomouse
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          Dinner was pork chops on the grill, roasted potatoes, winter squash, and green salad.

          in reply to: What are You Baking the Week of April 19, 2020? #23163
          chocomouse
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            Kimbob, I've been thinking about the obc a lot lately, and yes, a lifetime. I think it was early 1990s, maybe even late 1980s? I'm using my stay-at-home time these days to clean out and downsize. I'm sorting through a ton of old favorite recipes, and looking through the entire collection of Baking Sheets. What fun! Thinking "remember when a bunch of us bought the same cookbooks and we all made the same recipes...." And I have photos of some of the goodies we made on a thumb drive somewhere around here. That lasted quite a few months! I'm not tossing out too many recipes, though!

            in reply to: What are You Cooking the Week of April 19, 2020? #23120
            chocomouse
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              Tacos for dinner tonight.

              in reply to: The yeast shortage #23116
              chocomouse
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                I went grocery shopping at 6:30 this morning, first time in three weeks. I tried to help a poor man who was shopping for his wife - looking for yeast and had no idea what to look for. Of course, there was none. However, I had read online earlier that a small, family-run store in a neighboring town had yeast on the shelves! And at KAF, you can call the retail store direct, they will gather your items and put them out at the curb for you. They seem lately to have most items, including flours and yeast. At the grocery store, a small chain store, there was no store-brand flour, a few bags of Gold Medal, and a lot of KAF - AP, Whole Wheat, White Whole Wheat, Self Rising. I think that speaks to the local economy - it's pretty rural, working class people who are now unemployed or self-employed, folks who were just barely making a living before the crisis.

                in reply to: What are You Baking the Week of April 19, 2020? #23060
                chocomouse
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                  Hi Kimbob! Glad to see you here, and I hope you will stay a while. It sounds like you've been baking up a storm!

                  in reply to: What are You Baking the Week of April 19, 2020? #23036
                  chocomouse
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                    The morning after - and the bagels I made yesterday are still tasty but the texture is entirely different. The outside no longer shatters when you bite into it, and the inside is very chewy, not soft. I think they are no different from the the bagels made from 100% KAF AP, or from the 50% AP and 50% bread flour.

                    in reply to: What are You Baking the Week of April 19, 2020? #23035
                    chocomouse
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                      Thanks, BakerAunt. I bet they are delicious - a stick of butter, and only 3/4 cup of flour? I just read that the "19" in Covid-19 stands for the amount of weight one will gain during the distancing/isolation/etc. Those cookies would surely help me reach that goal!

                      in reply to: What are You Baking the Week of April 19, 2020? #23026
                      chocomouse
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                        I made bagels. I used the same recipe, but 100% AP flour instead of part AP and part bread flour. The outside were very crispy, and the insides even softer than the usual. I'm curious to find out tomorrow if they are less crisp and/or less soft inside.

                        in reply to: What are you Baking the week of April 12, 2020? #22957
                        chocomouse
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                          I used Len's recipe "Wheat-Rye-Semolina Buns" to make sandwich thins today. I had a turkey sandwich and my husband had ham. The dough was very easy to handle and the flavor is excellent. This will become my standard recipe for the thins, and I'll also try it for burger buns. Thanks for sharing the recipe, Len!

                          in reply to: What are you Baking the week of April 12, 2020? #22939
                          chocomouse
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                            Today I made rolls that are a variation of the KAF Crusty Gruyere Rolls. I used a basic lean dough recipe with bread flour, which gives them a crispy crust with soft insides. I rolled the dough into a rectangle and spread it with chopped green olives, gruyere, and cheddar, and then rolled it up like for a cinnamon bun. I put these into sprayed muffin tins and baked for 25 minutes at 375. Good with soup. We are forecast to get 4-7 inches of snow tonight.

                            in reply to: What are you Baking the week of April 12, 2020? #22870
                            chocomouse
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                              Today I made rye sandwich bread for leftover-ham sandwiches. I also made muffins with chopped dried mangos, mandarins, pineapple, apricots and coconut. I used 1/4 cup of coconut flour in places of 1/4 cup of AP flour, and an third egg and a little more milk. They are still a little dry, but very good. I'd like to use up this bag of coconut flour, so if anyone has recipe suggestions, thank you.

                              in reply to: What are you Baking the week of April 12, 2020? #22843
                              chocomouse
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                                I use the blueberries frozen. Just toss them with a tablespoon or two of flour right before stirring them into the batter. This morning I had a big decision to make: blueberry lemon bread or zucchini brownies - I finally decided on the brownies.

                                in reply to: Daily Quiz for April 12, 2020 #22829
                                chocomouse
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                                  Len, I did the same. Had no clue! So used what made sense with the grammar.

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