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I'm now looking for low carb recipes all the time and I saw a recipe on food and wine for low carb bell pepper nachos. I love nachos so I had to try them, but I figured they weren't going to be great. I was wrong. They may not have been nachos, but they were delicious and had lots of flavor. They were even good cold.

I also made my white bean rosemary dip to take to a dinner party

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Since we were working all Easter weekend, I made deviled eggs and baked ham and cheese sliders for dinner Easter night. We've decided that the King's Hawaiian rolls are too sweet for us (they were on sale). On Tuesday, I made the honey garlic chicken in my new slow cooker. It cooks hotter than my old one, but I don't mind - I was always adding time to the old one. I used low sugar ketchup which I liked better. I need to try it again with less sauce

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Welcome back Wonky! I hope your family is doing well

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Last night I made the Thai Peanut Noodle salad again. With less pepper and prechopped noodles it was much better. I slightly screwed up the dressing because I used my leftover dressing from last week to marinate the chicken, so the dressing was thinner. Still good though

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Nutella biscotti or lemon? I might make some tomorrow to take to work (we still have a lot of cake!

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I made Chicken Juniper for Will's birthday yesterday. It's a family favorite and it's a casserole from the 1960s - you know - with mushroom soup and sour cream. Chicken breasts are wrapped in bacon and put on a bed of dried beef. Then it's cooked low and slow. It has another name but one of my dad's crew named it after our racing sailboat because they always had it on overnight races.

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BakerAunt, I thought you were on swirth's email list and I copied you on the email Ria quoted. Can you please send your correct email to cwcdesign at me dot com?
Swirth had sent an additional email with an address for you

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I made KAF's chocolate mousse cake with raspberries (only I used strawberries) for Will's birthday tomorrow. It's a good thing I had the day off! It has three distinct parts - cake, filling and frosting.

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I finally had a chance to read the article. It's a good one. I mainly use kosher salt but in the proportions the recipe calls for, i.e., if a recipe says 1 teaspoon salt, I use 1 teaspoon kosher salt. I think you're "supposed" to use 1½-2 times the amount of kosher salt to regular salt. I use it because I like it. I've also tried to work hard and not putting too much salt in when I cook and, like Mike, add more at the table. That's because I like more salt than most others.

I also thought it was interesting that different harvests of cinnamon would be different shades - that's good to know. And, I think that my mom used to gave MSG on the spice shelf.

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Masking tape and a Sharpie - a pen works too, but the Sharpie is better. You to only put the date you put it in the fridge, but also the date a week out.

This week was chicken week at our house. Monday I made slow cooker Buffalo chicken in my new crockpot which is very nice. Thursday I made sheet pan Fajitas and I've gotten that recipe right where I want it and last night I tried a new recipe for a Thai chicken/vegetable salad with lime peanut dressing. It was quick and really delicious. Rarely do I make something new that I don't want to tinker with, except for maybe a touch Oslo salt, but that's just me. And it made a lot, so the 3 of us each had a large serving and there are leftovers.

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The braids in Challah remind me of Aran sweaters. They used different patterns of cables so that you could identify the fishermen. Sounds like you can identify the baker or bakery by the different braids

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Thank You Len, Joan & BA. It was?

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On Monday, Will made me baked scampi for my birthday dinner. We thought his brother might join us so we had plenty, enough to last through Thursday. Sandwiches that night and then the turkey through today.

I had a turkey in the freezer so I decided to try Ina Garten's Accidental Turkey - it was pretty easy and the turkey spent several days in the fridge in a sort of brine, then 45 minutes in a hot oven, reduce the heat for another hour or so. It was very good and we decided that if we made it again, we would let it cool longer- it sliced much better the next day.

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Not yesterday, but the Saturday before, I made a batch of KAF brownies with the caramel from the Gooey Caramel Brownies that I wrote about before. They were decadent and delicious! I cut them in about 1-1½" squares. A definite keeper. They were my birthday cake for my birthday on Sunday. No other baking last week.

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Looks beautiful Len. I hope it tastes as good as it looks!!

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