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I made the KAF golden focaccia to have with soup tonight. I think my dough was a little wet, but it still tastes good. It’s very damp here today, so I probably should have cut back on the water. Or, remembered to check the machine after 5 minutes and add a little more flour ?

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On Sunday, I caramelized some onions in the crockpot so we could have onion soup for dinner last night. Monday night we drove to Orlando to pick up number one son at the airport back from New Zealand. That’s 3 ½ hours there and 3 ½ back. Needless to say I took yesterday off.

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Thanks for the articles BA. Very informative. Since I’m a New Englander, I’ve always been happy with the Nellie & Joe’s and I do know that a real key lime pie is more yellow - if it’s a green pie, I stay away.

I also may look for the Texan and Californian limes during season just to check them out. I’m also glad to know that I’m not the only one who dislikes the Little rocks.

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I made a loaf of MrsCindy’s Irish Oatmeal Bread - but I didn’t have any Harvest grains blend so I substituted Irish Meal. It has great flavor. The first rise went too long, so I sort of patted the loaf down before I put it in the oven - it rose a little in the oven and the t3xture is good. I have to pay better attention to the rising time next time.

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Saturday night I made the sausage and vegetables sheet pan dinner and tried a new method for brown rice which was really good.

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Happy Birthday, Baker Aunt - sounds like a great day.

As far as I know, key limes are seasonal and you can buy bottled key lime juice - Nellie & Joe’s being probably the best brand.

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Thursday night I made a kale Caesar salad from the Barefoot Contessa. I mentioned to one of the cooks at work that I was going to use pasteurized eggs. Turns out she has 25 Rhode Island chickens who lay tons of eggs - I started with 6 (3 days old) and will start bringing her my empty cartons - she has cartons for 18 and we don’t use that many on a regular basis. But I sure could taste the difference in the dressing which was more lemony than garlicky.

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They saved the star bread for yesterday and loved it - they dipped it in marinara sauce after they warmed it a little

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Aaron it is a minion with long, long arms according to the caption. Sadly they didn’t show the spongebob- I think I have to go with the hedgehog - it really did make me laugh

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I made Shepard’s pie for dinner tonight. We’ll freeze half of it. And, we’ll have pizza tomorrow

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Saturday I made a savory star bread with pizza filling as a thank you for some friends who picked up Will from the airport last week while I was still down with the flu. I’m a little nervous that I may not have put enough filling in. I’ve asked for feedback, but haven’t heard yet.

Then I made a batch of beer pizza dough, but Will went out so we didn’t have pizza. I put half in the freezer and we’ll have one tonight or tomorrow

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I’m between years too

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BA, thanks for the feedback on the Chai Spice pound cake. I’ve been wanting to try it. I’m going to start looking at Homegoods for a couple of 6-cup Bundt pans - I think the size would be a great addition to our bake sale

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BA, as I recall the purpose of the KAF Whole Grain Baking Book was to introduce bakers to adding whole grains into their baking. That was why I asked for it for a Christmas present when it was new. It was also where I learned about weighing flour and other ingredients.

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I like salt, but I have found recently that I have been cutting back, just trying to use it to enhance the flavor rather than blindly throwing it in. I find that Ina Garten uses a lot of salt so I almost always halve the amount in her recipes.

I also use kosher salt a lot, even in baking, but if a recipe calls for a teaspoon of salt, I’ll do a teaspoon of kosher salt, even though “they” say you should use more kosher because of the size of the crystals. I haven’t checked the nutritional values but I wonder if a teaspoon of kosher salt has less sodium than a teaspoon of table salt. It probably wouldn’t be much, but hey

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