[Italiancook]

Mike, I just posted the chocolate mayo cake recipe in the recipe section.

[Italiancook]

I've made pesto, so I knew this. Ina Garten's (Food Network) pesto recipe is the best. I can't recall if she says it on the recipe, but on her show, she has said to freeze pesto, cover the top with olive oil. Never frozen it, though, so don't know how much oil to use.

[Italiancook]

Good to know about the KAF fudge cake recipe, BakerAunt. I have a chocolate mayonnaise recipe that we like. At least I hope I still have it -- haven't made it for a while. I'll keep the KAF recipe in the back of my mind.

[Italiancook]

Thanks, BakerAunt, for your detailed help. The 1% Lactaid milk I use has 1.5 g saturated fat per cup. It has 12 g sugar, which seems high to me. I'll have to compare milk labels at the grocery.

I used a calculator to do the arithmetic, but there's no guarantee I'm right. I had a professor who berated all the business students in his class because we need calculators. For what it's worth:

Mayo is more heart-friendly than butter in this recipe, IF 3/4 cup mayo would be equal to 3/4 cup butter. If that's the case, 18 grams saturated fat in the mayo, while 3/4 cup butter would have 84 grams saturated fat.

We don't have heart problems. I asked this question in case I ever want to make drop biscuits for someone with a heart ailment. Online, I found a recipe for olive oil drop biscuits -- 2 actually, and I'll try them both. What amuses me about my interest in drop biscuits is I don't even like biscuits. I eat them with soup if nothing else is available.

I guess I should say that the mayo I use that has 1.5 g saturated fat is full-fat Hellman's mayonnaise. Label says sugar is negligible (not their wording).

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Yesterday, my husband made an emergency home repair that involved driving store-to-store looking for the part. So this morning I made him (for the first time) Butterless Drop Biscuits from Stephiecancook-cookpad.
https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/908535-butterless-drop-biscuits

My husband said they're "very good," and had 3 with his breakfast. I have a question about the butterless part:

Recipe uses 3/4 cups mayonnaise instead of butter. From a heart-health standpoint, do you think mayo makes them more heart-friendly than butter? Or, are they about the same, since mayo has eggs?

Afterthought: I used only 2 teaspoons of sugar and only 1/4 teaspoon salt, and they are fine.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 1 month ago by Italiancook.
• This reply was modified 7 years, 1 month ago by Italiancook.

[Italiancook]

I knew this, probably, because the carrot soup recipe I use says to sweat the onions.

[Italiancook]

Okay, BakerAunt, thanks for the reply. Apparently, I took KAF's words to poke the dough all over too literally. I did a whole lot of poke holes. I'll be less tenacious about it next time.

[Italiancook]

I had no clue. Don't feed my dog human food. So, I missed it.

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skeptic7, I finally ordered the Norpro Wood Pastry/Pizza Roller 2 try with KAF Blitz Bread: Focaccia. As soon as the roller arrives and time permits, I'm going to retry this recipe using the roller. Thanks for telling me about it.

BakerAunt, thanks for your methods shared in this post. I'll incorporate some of them in the retry.

I guess this means I haven't really given up on Focaccia!

[Italiancook]

I've never pickled anything and had no idea, so I missed this.

[Italiancook]

I guessed correctly.

[Italiancook]

BakerAunt, I have no idea, but I imagine a baker at KAF Baker's Hotline could offer a good guess.

[Italiancook]

I've been going through my recipe boxes and trying recipes I haven't tried but sound interesting. Today, I baked one of them: Apple Oaties (cookies). I put the recipe in the recipe section.

Mike, I have no idea where this recipe came from. It's at least from the 1970s. If you feel uncomfortable having it here, feel free to delete it. I didn't know whether or not to post it, but they are good.

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Missed it.

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I'm surprised by the correct answer. Like BakerAunt, I rely on the microwave for leftovers and have always assume all would be well.

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