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  • in reply to: What are you Cooking the week of January 5, 2020? #20281
    chocomouse
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      Dinner tonight was boneless pork chops cooked in a cast iron skillet with sliced potatoes, apples, and onions, and a tossed salad with raspberry white balsamic.

      in reply to: Cinnamon Baking Chips #20272
      chocomouse
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        Has anyone tried making the DIY cinnamon chips? There are a number of recipes online, and people say they are good. My next big project might be to try making them, since I've thought about doing it for a couple of years.

        in reply to: What are you Cooking the week of January 5, 2020? #20242
        chocomouse
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          Well, I'm either trying to turn the calendar ahead six months or back six months -- to summer! I'm sick of the sleet and freezing rain weather already. So, we're having a cold salad supper -- chicken-grape salad, plain macaroni salad, and a green salad. None of the veggies are fresh from my garden!

          in reply to: What are you Cooking the week of December 29, 2019? #20227
          chocomouse
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            I have a pot of split pea soup with ham simmering on the stove for dinner tonight.

            in reply to: What are you Baking the week of December 29, 2019? #20215
            chocomouse
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              I made a carrot cake, for husband's birthday.

              in reply to: What are you Baking the week of December 29, 2019? #20167
              chocomouse
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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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                in reply to: What are you Cooking the week of December 29, 2019? #20166
                chocomouse
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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.

                  in reply to: What are you Cooking the week of December 22, 2019? #20061
                  chocomouse
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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.

                    in reply to: What are you Baking the week of December 22, 2019? #20038
                    chocomouse
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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.

                      in reply to: What are you Cooking the week of December 15, 2019? #20030
                      chocomouse
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                        What a wonderful surprise, Joan! Merry Christmas to all of you!

                        in reply to: What are you Cooking the week of December 15, 2019? #20012
                        chocomouse
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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.

                          in reply to: What are you Baking the week of December 15, 2019? #20011
                          chocomouse
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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.

                            in reply to: What are you Cooking the week of December 15, 2019? #20002
                            chocomouse
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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.

                              in reply to: What are you Cooking the week of December 15, 2019? #19978
                              chocomouse
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                                Sausage pizza for dinner!

                                in reply to: What are you Baking the week of December 15, 2019? #19934
                                chocomouse
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                                  I made a cinnamon apple coffee cake which is delicious.

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