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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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I made 2 loaves of Harvest Grains bread today.

My husband stopped at the Norwich KAF store today and got me a fifty-pound bag of Sir Galahad flour. It was $49.95, up from 34.95 six months ago! However, he got a discount (Guest Pass) even though he used my account number and name, so got 9.99 off.

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Tonight we ate the last of the Celebrity and Roma tomatoes. I'm hoping the nice-looking and abundant Brandywines ripen before the first frost (average date October 15). However, the daytime highs have been and are predicted to be in the low 60s, with nights 40s an 50s, not great for ripening tomatoes. So vine ripened tomatoes are not likely to happen.

We prefer the buttercup squash over butternut -- they are sweeter and more reliably neither too wet nor too dry. However, the butternut shape is much easier to prepare for cooking. I will be planting a couple of honey nuts next summer. Thank you for your input, BakerAunt and Skeptic.

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My husband had a BLT and I had leftover tomato soup and grilled chicken thigh.

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