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  • in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of November 2, 2025? #47683
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      Tonight was my second night of having tuna with romaine lettuce and a piece of focaccia from the freezer (it came from the bake shop at work).

      I went to Vero Beach over the weekend to see my brother and SIL. With the time change and the long drive I started feeling the effects of a cold on Tuesday. Fortunately I'd taken my ginger chicken vegetable soup out of the freezer for dinner that night and a little for last night. With the help of Mucinex, I think I'm keeping it in my head

      in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of November 2, 2025? #47682
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        Chocomouse - I have one I really like and it's easy. https://bakingsteel.com/blogs/recipes/legendary-english-muffin-recipe

        This comes from The Baking Steel - I have both a steel (that Mrs. Cindy gave me) and one of their griddles - I think the cooking technique is as important as the recipe). They have videos on cooking them - I haven't made them in a couple of years even though I keep meaning to - I've also thought about adding whole wheat or white whole wheat to the dough

        in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of October 26, 2025? #47609
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          I made the Skillet Chicken, Orzo and Spinach recipe that I found in the Washington post last year when I still subscribed. I added extra goat cheese and this was my best effort yet.

          in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of October 19, 2025? #47606
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            Pizza looks yummy, Mike

            in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of October 19, 2025? #47594
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              Tonight consisted of making dinner from what was on hand, starting with some frozen ravioli. My next decision was to make my no cook Alfredo Sauce (half a batch), and then I added the other half of the Stouffer's spinach soufflé that I had for dinner last night. It was delicious and I have dinner for tomorrow night too.

              in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of October 19, 2025? #47580
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                On Monday, I roasted vegetables - peppers, zucchini, onion, carrots and the baby potatoes along with a large chicken breast that I had pounded very thin. I just used olive, salt & pepper.
                Tuesday I made chicken salad with the chicken I didn't use for my dinner (most of it) with celery, toasted pecans, dried cranberries, whole milk yogurt & mayo, which I also enjoyed tonight and will have more for tomorrow

                in reply to: Dusting Off the Cookbooks #47579
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                  BA I have both the Open House and Cold Weather cookbooks which are dog eared from much use. I was curious to see if Sarah had made changes to her muffin recipe for the cookbook you have - it was in Open House and there were no changes. I might have to try that one

                  in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of October 12, 2025? #47556
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                    I brought home some blackened salmon from work |and had it with the last of my roasted vegetables and salad from my grain bowl earlier this week. Now I have to figure out what to do with the leftover bulgur.

                    Joan, have a wonderful time in Texas with your son!

                    in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of October 12, 2025? #47532
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                      Since I had to go in at 7 this morning to open the store at 8 (our opener had a doctor's appointment) and was able to leave at 3, I decided to make the Warm Vegetable and Grain Bowl from Ina's Go To Dinners - it was easy but quite a few different parts. It is really good - filling but not heavy. Another planned over dinner - I have several meals left.

                      in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of October 12, 2025? #47526
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                        The salted butter does help, as does dipping the bread in tomato soup.

                        BA, I'm always jealous of your waffles - I'm usually too lazy to make waffles or pancakes (don't even own a waffle iron). But, then again, y family was never up to eat them when I'd want to make them.

                        in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of October 12, 2025? #47518
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                          I made tomato soup. It was good with the Irish brown Bread (see baking thread).

                          in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of October 12, 2025? #47517
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                            I made Ballymaloe Brown Bread from Simon Pearce's cookbook. His mother had given the original recipe to the Allens (they lived nearby) and then Mrs. Allen adapted it. Simon Pearce's restaurant uses an Irish wholemeal from Ireland, but says you can substitute KAF Irish-Style Flour. The KAF is lower in protein so I subbed in a cup of bread flour for one cup of the Irish-Style

                            This version is made with yeast and it was supposed to have a quick rise. It started out great in the oven. After I took the loaves out of the pan and put them upside down on the rack for the final phase of baking, I noticed they had shrunk. As I turned around, I glanced at the recipe and noticed that I had forgotten the salt 🙄 which explains a lot.

                            Good news is the texture and flavor are fine, but the salt will certainly enhance it next time.

                            in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of October 5, 2025? #47495
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                              For Thursday, I had some thawed chicken tenders in the fridge so on my way home I picked up some asparagus (on sale) and some tiny Yukon gold potatoes. I made a sheet pan dinner. I tossed the asparagus and potatoes in olive oil and roasted them at 425. I tossed the tenders in some of my honey mustard dressing and added them to the pan for another ten minutes. It was all perfect - I just added a little S&P for serving. I have dinner for the next couple of nights.

                              in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of October 5, 2025? #47485
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                                I will have to bake some bread on Sunday and also start resuscitating the sourdough starter.

                                in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of October 5, 2025? #47484
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                                  Navlys - you can freeze the raviolis and then take out how ever many you want to cook. That's what Will and I do with the large bags of Rana when they are on sale.

                                  Tonight I have Stouffer's Swedish meatballs with a shredded carrot salad. I just got home from Chicago and that's all I had in the house.

                                  Len, I really enjoyed your city and had a great time with Will. It's great to see him in his element.

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