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Today I baked orange-ginger scones and chocolate chip cookies. The cookie recipe is KAF oatmeal-chocolate chip from their Bake of the Year a few years ago. I'd never tried these, but I will make them again. They are soft and chewy. I cut way back on the amount of chips, as many posters had suggested, so I used a scant 2 cups instead of 3.

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I'm not sure about the shelf life of spaghetti squash either, Mike. Last year was my first year growing them. I somehow am thinking I tried to use them up more quickly than my other winter squash varieties, which I know will keep perfectly until Jan-Feb. (We have a cold cellar built into our basement). But I've recently read on a gardening forum that they keep as long as other winter squash. I haven't determined yet if I can bake and scrape them into strands, and then freeze them for later use. I'm not sure the texture would then be very good, probably mushy. I think I got 6-7 of them, way more than enough for us, so I'll give away a lot of them.

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I've mostly cleaned out my gardens although we have not had a killing frost yet. I've left the Brandywine tomatoes, hoping they will ripen, along with the Brussels sprout. I brought in all the herbs from the deck, but left lettuce, spinach and onions for now. When I return from a trip next next week, I will start up the Aerogarden with herbs, and fill planters with greens under the Gro lights. It was the worst gardening season I've ever had. Only a few squash, poor cruciferous crop, no repeat crops of beans, only the tomatoes and berries were tremendous producers. I'm looking forward to next year!!

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Dinner was ground beef-corn-potato casserole.

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Today I made a maple coffeecake, using both maple syrup and maple sugar. It came out a little dry, although the center pieces are good.

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Dinner tonight was omelets with fresh English muffins.

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Your brownies will be very interesting to see when they're cut! They surely won't look like the pile of gummi worms they resemble now.

Today I made English muffins.

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BakerAunt, if you can't find that Baking Sheet with the sticky bun recipe, let me know. Are you thinking it was Vol II, 1991? I have almost every Baking Sheet published, organized into binders by year of publication, so it won't be difficult to search. Maybe my winter project should be going through ALL the binders and trying out interesting recipes!

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Dinner was ribs on the grill, potato salad, and buttercup squash from last year's garden.

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We had tuna fish sandwiches for a late supper, on fresh (made this morning) white buttermilk maple oatmeal bread, a Beth Hensperger recipe.

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Skeptic, thanks for telling me about getting powdered milk in the health food store. I'm always so entranced and overwhelmed by everything there - I never thought to look for milk powder.

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We added pull out shelves in our kitchen about 40 years after we had the house built. Actually, my husband built them. I remember looking at them in 1985, but we were looking to save some money without cutting corners, and they were quite expensive to buy. When you reach a certain age and can no longer get down on your hands and knees to search for old cereal,
flour, etc., you'll pay most anything for the convenience.

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Aaron, I use regular powdered milk from the regular grocery store, and it works fine. I know a lot of others disagree. My problem is with finding it in bulk form, instead of little packets that make a cup or a quart.

I keep the powdered buttermilk on hand in case I run out, but I do think the real thing gets better results.

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I made tomato soup with celery, onion, and green pepper, and added some frozen mixed veggies from the grocery store. Some roasted garlic ramped up the flavor.

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Dinner tonight was a spinach-feta-pasta salad and sauteed shrimp. I'd planned to skewer and grill the shrimp, but the high temp today was 54* so I opted to warm up the kitchen. I had been trimming planters and pots of lettuce, tomatoes, and herbs on the deck in anticipation of a frost so I was frozen to the bones.

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