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Thanks to Cass for the suggestion to use 2 3/4 oz of honey for 2 3/4 oz of sugar. Of course that will help with the dryness, and I should have thought of that. But I'm not as smart as Cass!! It will be a while before I make another cake -- I try to limit my caloric intake, most of the time. But I've made a note on my recipe and will do that.

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I made 2 loaves of buttermilk oatmeal bread, with my usual substitutions. I also made pizza dough.

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I didn't really cook today, but took chili out of the freezer for our dinner. And baked KAF's Golden Pull Apart Rolls to go with it.

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For dinner I made ground turkey burgers, mashed potatoes, mushroom gravy, and buttercup squash.

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KathyD, the carrot cake is excellent! It's a bit dry, but not at all oily or greasy, as it often is. I think subbing apple sauce for some of the oil eliminated any excess. I haven't had carrot cake for two years, and it is one of my favorite sweets.

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We had grilled pork chops and potatoes, and roasted Brussel sprouts drizzled with olive oil, pomegranate balsamic, bourbon barrel aged maple syrup.

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Today I made a carrot cake, but have not done a taste test yet. I used apple sauce in place of some of the oil, added chopped and smashed pineapple chunks (prefer crushed, but chunks is what I found in the pantry), 4 cups of shredded carrots, and walnuts. I'm telling myself this will be a healthy snack. Oh, I did forget about the cream cheese frosting!

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I have a pot of stone soup on the stove for dinner tonight. I had made my version of chicken cacciatore for dinner on Tues, so took the leftovers and cleaned the chicken off the breast bones. I added the rice we had with dinner, more onions, celery, carrots, and a container of frozen asparagus, along with some chicken broth. We'll have it with garlic knots from the freezer.

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I cooked a pork roast in the tagine with Moroccan spices, along with potatoes, carrots, onions, and apples. Another traditional autumn meal at our house.

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Good for her! How wonderful that the two of you can share the joys of baking together.

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We had grilled salmon, baked potatoes, and asparagus from the freezer for dinner tonight. I rubbed the salmon with a garlic-citrus rub (fairly hot and spicy) and then brushed maple syrup on it for the last 4 minutes.

BakerAunt, I envy you "one last picking" of anything from the garden. We're finished gardening, and most of the plants are pulled up. It was not a great year, but our freezers are full!

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I made garlic knots for my husband to take to a pot luck this week.

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Tonight we had breakfast sausages cooked with sliced apples all sprinkled with brown sugar and cinnamon, along with cole slaw and corn bread muffins. This is one of our favorite fall meals.

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I've just returned from grocery shopping. I bought KAF white whole wheat as I used up my supply last week. The flours were well-stocked, although prices are up -- 4.89 for a 5 pound bag. My husband will be picking up a 50 pound bag of AP and the KABC store next week; I usually resupply about this time of year anyway, fall and spring.

I paid attention to cwcdesign's (I think that's accurate) comment about low supplies of pasta. The shelves were pretty empty of pasta, but I did find, down low in the back, a few boxes of cavatappi and gemelli. Interesting that the macaroni and the penne sections were empty. I surmise that the more common shapes are being bought up, whereas the "weird" looking shapes that many folks are not familiar with, are more available.

Overall, I'd say the shelves were much emptier than I've seen them since last spring.

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We are having some lovely weather these couple of days - dry, low-70s, and sunshine - I'd given up hope of ever seeing the sun again, it's been so long! I'm working on harvesting everything and putting the gardens to bed for the winter. We are still picking raspberries, 1-2 quarts a day, by far the best crop we've had in 35 years. Our average first killing frost date is October 15. And we still find a few tomatoes, zucchini, yellow squash, broccoli. Plenty of lettuce and greens. The winter squashes are picked and drying on the deck, and I've processed all the peppers. Between the drought and the heat, it was a very poor garden this year. Once I write up my daily garden log and planting lists, I'll start to think about changes for next year.

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