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We had venison stroganoff with baby bella mushrooms and peas for dinner.

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I made Baked Blueberry Pancakes with maple syrup and a side of breakfast sausages. This was a new recipe for me, and I'll be making it from now on instead of my usual KAF's Simply Pancakes. The batter is baked in a 9 x 12 or slightly larger pan. It is so much easier than standing over the grill flipping pancakes! And I used twice as many blueberries which were more evenly distributed throughout the batter. The flavor and texture is excellent.

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I cooked a pork roast and roasted potatoes and winter squash alongside it in the pan juices.

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I made another double batch of the Chewy Peanut Butter cookies, and again added a couple handfulls of chocolate chips. I baked them for 10 minutes at 350* and they are perfect.

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Yes, the cookie craze is alive and well in northern New England. We stopped at Crumbl on our way home from Maine on Monday. People are thrilled with Crumbl! Me? Nope. My cookies are just as good, mostly better in flavor and texture, and a lot cheaper even when made with top quality ingredients. The main difference is mine look home-made; they're not perfect. Fine - I even eat the funny lookin ones.

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I made Duchess soup for our supper and extra for the freezer.

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I tried a new recipe for Spoon Rolls from the Lodge company yesterday. It was interesting, as it called for both yeast and self-rising flour, and required no kneading as it made a batter type dough. I don't use self-rising flour so substituted AP and baking powder. It made a lovely batter, easily scooped into the mini-cake cast iron baking pan. The rolls are different, neither a dinner roll nor a muffin type. They were not as good, naturally, as a true yeasted dinner roll, but they were quick, easy, and ready to eat in 30 minutes. They were a little bland, but would be quite tasty with the addition of grated cheese, a few red pepper flakes, or an herb mix. However, I had one for lunch today and it simply disintegrated, crumbling into pieces. My husband had one for breakfast, split, toasted, and buttered, and said it did not crumble at all. Does anyone have any thoughts about what might have caused this to happen, and remedies I could try? I can post the recipe if that would help, and it is on their website.

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Happy Birthday, Joan. Glad you received lots of love on your special day!

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Not much cooking here, since I got back from a week in Maine last night and am exhausted. On the way home, we stopped at Trader Joe's and I bought dinner for tonight: a cruciferous chopped salad with sesame ginger dressing, and chicken sausages. So I just had to heat up the sausages, which were very mild, not a lot of flavor, but the salad was excellent.

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Dinner was meatloaf, whole kernel corn, and broccoli.

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Today I made date-oatmeal cookies.

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Dinner tonight was salmon on the grill, baked potatoes, and roasted mixed veggies.

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I made 2 loaves of Walter Sands white bread, although I subbed in 2 cups of whole wheat for 2 cups of AP, and added flax meal.

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Tuna sandwiches!

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Dinner tonight was chicken, squash from the freezer, and roasted mixed veggies: carrots, potatoes, and cauliflower, drizzled with mango balsamic.

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