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BA, Will is actually teaching himself since we communicate and learn so differently from each other - he watches a lot of videos (he's dyslexic), I read a lot of recipes and watch some videos.

He does ask questions and I'm learning how to answer to be helpful, sometimes I'll just remind him to research it if he doesn't like my answer 😁 But, at least he's learning because he wants to. I'm sure he'll become better than me at some point.

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I'm so sorry navlys! We all have stories like that. I try to suppress the memory and then it will happen again - I'm much better if I actually remember to write the notes I think to myself

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Early in the week, I made a penne pasta with asparagus and lemon sauce - we had it for a couple of days. Work was crazy with long hours. We had 100 orders for take n bake Thanksgiving dinners - we were all glad when Wednesday was over. It was nice to be able to spend Thursday hanging out, resting and reading. I made scalloped potatoes, Pepperidge Farm (blue) “dressing,” and roasted the little Butterball breast on a bed of vegetables. I made turkey gravy from a Knorr packet I had on hand using chicken stock cuz there were no juices from the turkey - it was surprisingly good. Will made the green beans and we had canned cranberry sauce - we’re from the land of Ocean Spray. Then we had Will’s pumpkin pie for dessert.
Turkey sandwiches for dinner last night, tonight and probably tomorrow as well.

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Will's pie was a great success. He thinks making all those tortillas helped him understand the pie crust. It was a little firm, but for his first effort, really good - most of mine don't taste as good. The filling his friend was from Bon Appetit - when he gives me the link, I will post it here - I'm not a fan of pumpkin pie (neither is he) but this was the lightest filling I've ever tried and not too sweet.

I made a loaf of pan de mie for our turkey sandwiches. I just used the traditional KAF recipe but used buttermilk instead of regular milk.

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Will’s going to try his hand at making a pumpkin pie with the crust from scratch - he’s decided on Ina’s crust, a recommendation from a friend who was going to be on Master Chef but when she got there and they were telling her she had to play a role - she said No thanks

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Mike, normally I prefer not to get a prepackaged Turkey, but it was free, I can soak it and we might even grill it.

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Harris Teeter had their fresh turkey breasts on sale, so I ordered one for pickup on Friday - I didn’t want to deal with anything this week. When Will went to pick up the order (our shopper didn’t call - they’re supposed to) he checked to see if anything was missing - the turkey breast of course and olive oil. So the person who brought the groceries out went back in to check. We did get a turkey breast - a frozen Butterball boneless one, but on the bright side, they didn’t charge us for it. Since it’s only the two of us it’s not a big deal and I don’t have to worry about boning it.

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I forgot to post that we got our syrup on Monday. Yum! The Post Office seemed to use the package for football practice, but all that happened was two lids cracked, but the loss of syrup was negligible. Rhett sent me the info for boiling and bottling the syrup, so we will be great. So excited.

Food & Wine had this article in their email today - there are a few recipes I might have to try
https://www.foodandwine.com/condiments/maple-syrup?did=582719-20201122&utm_campaign=faw-top10_newsletter&utm_source=foodandwine.com&utm_medium=email&utm_content=112220&cid=582719&mid=45338736841&slide=78206c4d-8e1a-4578-a7b2-a304e5fa731e#78206c4d-8e1a-4578-a7b2-a304e5fa731e

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I made two loaves of English muffin toasting bread to slice and put in the freezer.

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I made ginger sesame noodles with caramelized mushrooms. They were delicious but not enough food for Will so he ended up making cheese toast with the bread I made last week. We think crispy chicken would be a nice addition.

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Glad I could help, ItalianCook!

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25 minutes seems like an awful lot of time in the microwave, ItalianCook. When I thaw an English muffin or bagel (granted it's to put in the toaster). I do it for around 25 seconds wrapped in paper towel and it does the trick to thaw them.

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Joan, I am so sorry to hear this! Sending lots of healing thoughts your way.

We got the call today that we won’t reopen until the 23rd. I have my test scheduled for Tuesday at 9:45 - still no symptoms for me.

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Oh, chocomouse I’m a New Englander from way back when! I just happen to live in the South now. I bake my cornbread with sugar or honey but I think I’ll use maple syrup in my next batch.

I even lived in Warren for a year after college - we had a ski house there and I did my ski bum thing - worked in reservations at the Sugarbush Inn - my first job and I wasn’t very good at it. Now all these years later I’m back in hospitality.

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Chocomouse - I got the email yesterday that my syrup is on the way - so excited. Thank you for posting about this!

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