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Swirth, you reminded me that my mom just went to a party for a couple that was celebrating there 60th anniversary and they both turned 90 this year!

I think it's great that your great grandparents were able to reach 50 years.

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A belated happy anniversary Swirth - that is a major milestone!! I hope you didn't get the June 11th storms.

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Yesterday, I tried a pork butt in the crockpot. It used a dry rub with water and cider vinegar in the bottom of the container. It ended up taking too long so I wrapped it and put in in the fridge. I did the same with the liquid. This afternoon I took it out and shredded it. It was nice, but a little dry. I took the fat off the liquid and then ended up adding it all to the shredded pork - I wish I hadn't - I think it's too wet now. Will hasn't weighed in on it yet.

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Wednesday I made a spinach zucchini lasagna from myrecipes. It was small which I liked so we had leftovers, but not too much - so simple using ricotta and chive-onion cream cheese, then sauté the zucchini and spinach with garlic. I did salt the zucchini first even though the recipe didn't mention it - I'm glad I did - I think it would have been watery otherwise. Topped with mozzarella. We enjoyed it.

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Happy Birthday Professor!! Hope you have a wonderful day with your favorite sweet treat be it cake or cheesecake or shortbread??

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You know, I almost included the link yesterday but now I can't find it - wonder what happened 🙂

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I got a deal at Sam's 🙂 that and flank steak

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Sunday night I made skirt steak fajitas for some friends. I found the recipe on serious eats and although Kenzie Lopez-Alt used a charcoal grill, I used my gas grill and it was perfect. I did do the peppers and onions in the oven as I had extras and then I made guacamole to go with. I also made a rose sangria based on a Jeffrey Morgenthaler recipe from Fine Cooking. I used very little simple syrup and a nice dry rose and it was delicious - definitely not sweet, just nicely fruity.

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I googled Chocolate Kailua Walnut Tart and there were several sites that had a recipe. So I looked at the first recipe that wasn't food.com and it listed 2 tablespoons heavy cream in the filling ingredients list. Hope this helps!

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Hi Mike, my favorite sloppy Joe recipe is Asian sloppy joes from Ming Tsai, but he uses 2 1\2 tablespoons of garlic.

However, I googled "sloppy joes without garlic" and a number came up - one used ½ teaspoon each of garlic and onion powders, but you could probably use a teaspoon of onion powder.

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I mostly use ounces because visually it makes more sense. Sometimes I will use grams but I don't have a "feel" for the measurements yet. I know this doesn't sound very clear, but I know what a cup of flour (4.25 ounces per KAF) looks like, but I don't know what gram measurements look like. I know that may sound silly and I also know that weighing by grams can be a little more accurate,but weighing ounces is what I'm comfortable with.

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I baked a big batch of KAF fudge brownies with ganache to celebrate our changing restaurant venues at work. It made so much tab I also took some to the Lighthouse and to Will's job.

My one problem was they said to bake for 40-45 minutes. I baked for 35 and they were ok. I couldn't figure out why they would tell you to bake a longer time when it was in a half sheet pan and the height of the batter was thinner. Next time I'll bake the regular amount of time. They were still good though

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This past week I made a batch of buffalo chicken in the crockpot and I used the temperature probe - the chicken was perfect and it took 2-2½ hours instead of 3-4 so definitely cooks higher. I also made the Tex-mex Cobb salad, only we toss all the ingredients together and last night I grilled chicken breasts which came out great. Score two for the grill. I used a quick rub from the Weber grill book. It had garlic & onion powders, s&up and chili powder- I used Penzey's medium hot and it had good flavor.

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Instead of eating doughnuts, several of my co-workers and I reminisced about companies who used to make really good ones but no longer do - Krispie Kreme and Dunkin to name two. One person brought up about a local guy who made really good ones eons ago.

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I heard from Jozy and she had emailed Mike to get help and for some reason his email didn't work for her, so I wrote Mike and copied her. She's read the posts and hopefully will be logging in soon with Mike's help.

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