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I made a carrot cake, for husband's birthday.

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I made orange-cinnamon buns. I just used a basic sweet dough recipe, with a couple of additions for the flavor. I used about 2 tablespoons of orange juice concentrate in the dough. After I rolled it out, I brushed the dough with orange juice concentrate, sprinkled it with brown sugar mixed with cinnamon, and chopped candied orange peel (not the commercial stuff, but some that I had made). I put some orange juice concentrate into the frosting also. These turned out really good, although next time I would increase the amount of the cinnamon and the orange peel.

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So sorry your husband is sick, Joan, but hopefully some good will come as a result. I'll be thinking of both of you.

Our dinner was chicken thighs with Penzey's Greek seasoning, butternut squash, and mashed potatoes.

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We had our family Christmas gathering last night, Christmas Eve. The dinner menu was ham, potatoes au gratin, whole kernal corn, fresh fruit salad, broccoli salad, and frosted rolls. After sharing gifts and lots of memories and laughs (a group of five college age grandkids is a riot!) we snacked from the cookie trays.

Today we'll have dinner with my sister and her husband. I'm bringing appetizers (shrimp, a cheese ball, assorted sliced cheeses, crackers, olives, and a few other simple "open the jars" foods) and wine - so no real cooking happening here.

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Today I made mini-cheesecakes for the cookie tray. I also baked the Lime refrigerator cookies that I mixed up yesterday.

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What a wonderful surprise, Joan! Merry Christmas to all of you!

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Dinner was spaghetti and salad. I made the sauce from our garden tomatoes I froze last summer, and added chopped cauliflower, also frozen from the garden last summer.

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I baked rye bread, again using the recipe on the bag of KAF rye flour. This time I added a table spoon of their Rye Bread Improver, as well as my usual assortment of seeds (but I forgot the onions!). I'll have some for lunch tomorrow.

I also made a batch of chewy molasses cookies for the Christmas Eve cookie tray.

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Easy dinner from the freezer: dinner rolls, and mushroom soup for me, clam chowder for my husband. After a big grocery shopping trip in the morning, I made a quadruple batch of Chex Mix for gifts.

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Sausage pizza for dinner!

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I made a cinnamon apple coffee cake which is delicious.

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Happy Birthday to your wife, Mike!

I agree Joan - cook once, eat twice! But I still struggle with the cook once, eat twice, eat three times, and sometimes even eat four times! I often put some of it into the freezer, but usually recognize it if I pull it out for a fourth meal! Ugh.

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I made two loaves of whole wheat sandwich bread this morning.

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Breakfast sausages with blueberry pancakes and maple syrup.

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When we lived in Germany, my husband spent a lot of time with the local Jagermeister, (or "hunt master" which we might interpret as forest ranger) who also raised hunting dogs and entered them in competitions. My husband had to learn the German commands for when he showed the dogs. Today, my son is a K-9 officer, and he uses mostly German language to communicate with his shepherds and malinois (the family pets as well as the working dogs).

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