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Thank you both - it feels like home

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Thanks, that was what I thought. I too have been reading about using less yeast in general and I must admit the recipe I made today could have been made with less yeast. It was the honey oat pan de pie from KAF and the recommendation was to scale that recipe up by 50% all ingredients except yeast to fit my larger pan de mie. I used 2 teaspoons and I think I could have used less.

I've also been following the Baking Steel blog and videos quite a bit and Andris (the owner) likes to do longer ferments with ¼ teaspoon yeast - Mrs Cindy had given me one of their baking steels when they first came out - we love it - we make pizza quite a bit. And, I made pita a couple of weeks ago. Need to try their naan - was disappointed in a naan recipe I tried. I also want to try their English muffins.

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kimbob, thanks for posting that link. The email that I received that had it - the article didn't show up.

The last time I was physically in Harris Teeter which was March 30th, they had KAF on the shelves, but it was 7:30am and it wasn't going to last long. Since then, I've been using theirs and Sam's Club online ordering and curbside pickup - I quite enjoy it.

As soon as the governor (GA) lifted the shelter-in-place, I was waiting in the express lane and watched people stream into the store with no masks - masks were in the vast minority - it looked like Christmas Eve. The day before I had friends that were in the store and they only saw one family without.

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Hi everyone! Long time since you've heard from me. I will do a general post where I also have a question from you all.
This week, I made my slightly modified version of KAF's Harvest Grains Bread and I just took out a loaf of KAF's Honey Oat Pan de Pie scaled up to the large pan - it looks beautiful. I had just gotten my bread machine around the last time I posted (a couple of years ago !?!) and it has helped me so much.

I have missed you all.

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Happy Birthday, Cass!

I hope you are doing well. I miss your wonderful advice

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Yesterday I made our favorite chicken salad with grapes and celery. I substituted half the mayo with whole milk Greek yogurt - my current favorite is Fage. We really like it a lot better this way.

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I remember my mom having one when I was younger. I think she may have used it once or twice. I sort of remember gray meat and then the fear of explosion is what I think made her abandon it.

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Last night I made a quick falafel recipe from Fine Cooking using canned chickpeas, I added garlic and dried parsley because it had neither. They got sautéed and then briefly baked. The recipe worked well and it’s a definite keeper.

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I made a simple Greek Salad I found on delish.com last summer. And, then I heated some chicken sausage on the stove.
We had driving rains all afternoon so it was nice to stay inside. I think it was the same storm that caused Joan to lose power, but thankfully we didn’t. And then the temperature dropped overnight to 50! That’s because I took my winter quilt off the bed yesterday ? but it will be back up to mid 60s today.

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Oh Joan, I'm so sorry - shingles are nasty and so close to your eye! Glad to hear you're on the mend.

Since my mom had shingles for a second time last year I got the "old" shingles vaccine. My doctor has given me a prescription for the new one, but he told me to see if my insurance covers it yet and if not, to wait until it does.

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I just got a set of cookie scoops for Christmas and made the quickest batch of cookies ever, so I know I'm going to love them.

Microplane, OXO pizza cutter I received for Christmas. I agree about the scale. Whisks, peelers, bench knifes, KAF silicone mat for counter (not oven) - in my tiny kitchen it saves lots of clean up - Chicago metallic sheet pans. Years ago, I put a grapefruit knife in one son's Christmas stocking, because he was eating tons of grapefruit. I use it for getting seeds out of squash and separating avocados from their skin - rarely for grapefruit. I have a juicer that my mom gave me - she used it for my stepfather's freshly squeezed OJ (and he died in 1999!) but it helps because my hands can't squeeze juice anymore. I also find it quicker and easier to grate cheese by hand.

After we downsized, I've learned I can live without a lot of gadgets I had.

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BA, I enjoyed the articles - thanks for posting.

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Mike, I'm so glad your son is safe. I knew he was with Google, but didn't realize it was YouTube

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Hi all! I feel like I fell off the turnip truck - We've had such crazy weeks at work that when I get home, I just want to veg - I haven't even been lurking much. So there has not been much cooking or baking in my house. But, on Wednesday (prepped on Tuesday) I made Chicken Juniper, often named Elegant Chicken in old community cookbooks, for Will's 25th birthday. That's the one with dried beef, chicken breasts, bacon, cream of mushroom soup and sour cream. It's probably his favorite comfort food. I got all the ingredients to make him the KAF Kitchen Sink Carrot Cake - it's a really good recipe, but they're still sitting on the counter a week later!

BevM, I'm with you about hurricane season. I'm originally from Buzzards Bay in Massachusetts where we were in prime hurricane territory. In 60 years of bad storms we never had to evacuate. Now I live on Saint Simons Island in Georgia. Because it's the furthest west point on the East Coast, hurrricanes were few and far between - they would often head up the Florida Coast and then head for the Carolinas. In the last two years we've had two mandatory evacuations and last year we couldn't return for a week. At least, we were fortunate to have minimal damage where we are, but still - yuck!.

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Many thanks to all of you. I apologize, but I didn't have time to even look here until yesterday and then I didn't have time to write. We are crazy busy at work this week so I had to work on my birthday and then go pick up Will at the Jacksonville airport at 11:30 Monday night. I did get to go out to dinner with friends and had a glass of wine very early, then tea and a Coke on my way to the airport. We went to the restaurant where Nate was working so he gave us great service! I had fried oysters! Will drove home and went in at 7 so I could have a couple of hours before going in at 9.

It really was a treat to see all the happy greetings when I finally got here. Thanks again.

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