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We actually had cold temperatures this week, down in the 30s and 40s so yesterday I tried a slow cooker version of broccoli cheddar soup. Definitely OK, but not a version I'd make again.

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Baker Aunt, over 30 years I had 2 gas stoves. The first one was a budget purchase. I really loved my second one - I think it was a Maytag and it had two ovens, a smaller one on top and the bottom one was big enough for anything. I was using that oven when I really started baking and I've had trouble adjusting to every electric oven I've used since. Just thought this information might be helpful.

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Home Run Inn pizza is being advertised at my local Harris Teeter this week. I'd not heard of it until you all talked about it here

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I made Chicken Marbella (my version) for a dinner party last night. This time I marinated it for 48 hours - usually 24. It was the best one I've made!

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Last week I made another batch of cauliflower bread sticks (or pizza crust - same thing). This time it was too dry. I have some ideas for fixing it - will keep trying. I also made a crockpot lo Menn that was quite good, but the leftovers didn't hold up, so next time we'll keep the noodles separate and serve the lo mein mixture over them.

And an avocado chicken salad with no mayo to use as a filling for tortilla roll ups. I worked both in the roll ups and as a salad alone

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I put my comments about the Gooey Caramel Stuffed Brownies in the Cookie Ideas thread by mistake. Since there were already "likes" attached I didn't want to move it here. But anyway that's what I've baked (so far) this week

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Yesterday, I made a recipe for Gooey Caramel Stuffed Brownies and I followed the recipe exactly. The balance of caramel to chocolate was great. My caramel layer didn't look as thick as the photo, but it was the brownie mix that disappointed. The flavor was good, but they were dry and sort of dense. Next time I will make my favorite KAF brownies and add the caramel layer to those.

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If Baker Aunt hadn't mentioned it, I was going to say biscotti. Their intended purpose is dunking ?? I also like cranberry pistachio and I think Mrs Cindy's lemon almond biscotti are posted here. If not, I'll try to get it posted.

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Luvpyrpom,
I'm so jealous you have freezers (plural)!!! I have a side by side in my rental and the freezer is right next to the wall and I can't open the door all the way so we don't even have full access to that ☹️

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I just wanted to say that even though I haven't been posting, I've been reading and it's exciting to see so many posts.

I haven't been making anything new lately. Just sticking to our tried and true crockpot and sheet pan dinners.

EDIT: And here's what I get for posting quickly early in the morning before work. I actually made 2 things in the past week - one a disaster and the other almost perfect.

I have been looking for low carb snacks and saw a recipe for roasted chickpeas which I think were supposed to be sort of like nuts. They were awful! Some burned, some were mushy on the inside and I tossed them all out.

The other recipe was for cheesy cauliflower breadsticks or pizza crust. As I said, they were almost perfect. The recipe I tried had too much egg in it, so they were flat and tasted too eggy (duh), but they were still highly edible. I've found another version (or 2) I'm going to try and will report back. That's how much promise the breadsticks have.

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I've been crazy busy (which is a good thing) but haven't had time to post. At the end of last week I made the Salted Caramel Kentucky Butter Cake for work and it was a big hit. I also took my time blending in the ingredients and it was much less messy. This week I made the Chocolate Cherry Doughnut Bread Pudding from foodiewithfamily.com. It's made with glazed doughnuts! I have a friend who's crazy about Krispy Kremes so I had to make it for her. It was not as sweet as I expected it to be. Next time I would add more cherries and layer in the chocolate and cherries. Mixing it the way she recommended, a lot of the chocolate ended up on the bottom.

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I forgot to post earlier in the week. I actually made the Slow Cooker Buffalo Chicken on Saturday so we would have some leftovers. On Sunday I made Stir-Fried Beef and Broccoli and also had leftovers from that. We were so tired on Wednesday that we actually did take-out. Last night I cooked hamburgers and roasted vegetables - I found a nice combination of veges on Pioneer Woman and I used those. Tonight I'm making a recipe called Lo-Carb Pepperoni Pizza Bake. It's Phase 2 on South Beach and you can keep the fat lower by using turkey pepperoni and skim milk mozzarella.

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I received the same email today. However, I do not use mine frequently so on the occasions when I need it I go ahead and pray 🙂 It was after all a "voluntary" recall, but I will feel better having a proper blade whenever it comes.

I, too, hope yours comes before you move, Baker Aunt. Since you filed before me, I would expect that they would ship in order of receipt.

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Thanks Mike and Aaron. You're both right about the cookie. I went looking for recipes online - ironically, Martha Stewart had a recipe for homemade Milanos, but used a thicker cookie dough and had a recipe for langues du chat as well. The recipe I used only had egg whites as the langues du chat. The other recipes for homemade ones all had whole eggs.

The recipe I tried was definitely out of balance - 8 ounces butter, 2 cups powdered sugar (8 oz.), 4 egg whites, 1 tsp vanilla and 1 ½ cups flour. The other recipes vary but ¼ to ½ cup butter, ½ cup sugar and 1 to 1 ¼ cups flour. I'll have to play someday.

Mike, we all really liked the ganache
1 cup (6 ounces) chocolate - I used dark
½ cup heavy cream
Break up the chocolate in a heatproof bowl. Heat the cream to boiling over medium heat. Pour over chocolate and let stand 30-45 seconds. Stir well to combine.

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I had seen a recipe for Homemade Milano Cookies which I decided to try yesterday since I had the 4 egg whites it called for. I had no problem making the dough, but I had problems piping the cookies p. The recipe said to cut ¼" in the corner of the bag. I found I was going back and forth over my piping to get more dough out. My cookies looked like Milano but they never crisped. The chocolate ganache was good. I took some of them to work. Everyone looked them despite their softness.

I looked at other homemade recipes and found that people cut bigger holes which makes sense. However the doughs came out much thicker in those recipes. The site I found it on has no place for comments which is frustrating. I think I'm going to research Madeleines to see if the batter is close to those.

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