[Mike Nolan]

Today's bagels:

4 with cheese
1 with everything
2 with poppy seeds
1 with ground peppers
1 with lemon pepper

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[Mike Nolan]

My son's doing most of the cooking this week. I made the angel food cake, bagels, and I did the oyster stew on Christmas Eve, he's done all the rest. We had ham on Christmas, we're having onion soup tonight.

[Mike Nolan]

I made bagels today, I'll probably make them several times over the next few days as my granddaughter can't eat the bagels they serve at RPI due to food sensitivity issues.

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The ones inside the trifle don't really brown, the ones on the top might, but we generally don't bother with the lemon juice.

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I made another batch of pastry cream using dextrose.

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Well the angel food cake seemed a bit underdone on the bottom, I was playing with the baking temperature/time because of the dextrose and I think I went a bit too low.

But it'll still work in a trifle. We cut the bottom off as it wasn't very spongy, but still edible.

[Mike Nolan]

I baked another Angel food cake with dextrose tonight, we'll see how it came out in the morning.

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I made two batches of chocolate chip oatmeal cookies today, one with mini chocolate chips and the other with mini-M&Ms.

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We had leftovers, because after a big Christmas party, we didn't need a big meal.

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Tonight's trifle

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I've had problems making angel food cakes from scratch in the past, but I researched this one heavily and it went quite smoothly. Only thing I did was mis-measure the water, since I was using egg white protein powder, using 200 grams instead of 300 grams.

I'll make it again just before Christmas, and probably post my adapted recipe after that.

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We had hot ham and cheese sandwiches for supper tonight.

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Well, it looks and tastes like an angel food cake, a bit on the dense side and not as sweet, both of which I expected and neither will be a problem in a trifle.

Now I need to test the pastry cream recipe with dextrose. If all works out well, we will make a trifle tonight/tomorrow and take it to a Christmas party tomorrow afternoon.

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I baked a test angel food cake today, using egg white protein powder and dextrose. It might be a bit on the dense side, but it's intended for a trifle so that won't matter much. I'll also be testing pastry cream made with dextrose instead of sucrose. (Food sensitivity issues.)

I also made a batch of Christmas chocolates using Lily semi-sweet chocolate chips. (Same reason.)

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I made a pot roast today. The meat was some that's been in the freezer for quite a while and it has a bit of a freezer taste to it, but it was edible.

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