[Mike Nolan]

We had smoked pork chops and salad for dinner tonight.

[Mike Nolan]

I made the detrempte for another batch of laminated dough, this one will use plant butter instead of butter, it'll be interesting to see how that affect the lamination and baking.

[Mike Nolan]

I wound up with about 80 ladyfingers. The piping on the first tray shown below was not perfect, but I got better later on. Fortunately, the batter is pretty forgiving.

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[Mike Nolan]

I'm making ladyfingers tonight, because I can't find any soft ones in town. (They're usually in the freezer section.) I can find hard ones, but they don't taste the same, even if you soak in something to soften them.

We'll use them in a trifle for Christmas.

[Mike Nolan]

We both had leftovers this evening, clearing out some fridge space since the part for the big fridge didn't arrive this week.

[Mike Nolan]

They had both savory and sweet items at the party, so I've probably had more than my carb limit for the day, and I had a salad with some diced ham and a sliced egg for supper.

[Mike Nolan]

I wound up with 24 chocolatines, I used a somewhat different process for preparing and enrobing the butter block, at first I was afraid it was going to be a total mess, but as I did additional turns (4 in all) it got better looking with each turn. I will probably try the previous method again when I make another batch of croissant dough over the weekend (requested by my son), it's a bit more work up front but that probably pays off during lamination. There were a few left over after the party, I bagged them and put them in the freezer. That should keep them from getting stale between now and Sunday.

[Mike Nolan]

I made the detrempte for croissant dough last night, and will be doing at least two turns of lamination tonight, maybe all three, then shaping and baking chocolatines in the morning for a party in the afternoon.

[Mike Nolan]

I had leftover spaghetti squash plus a salad, Diane had a hotdog.

[Mike Nolan]

We had spaghetti squash with meat sauce and oven cheese toast.

[Mike Nolan]

Tonight I'm doing a spaghetti squash with meat sauce.

[Mike Nolan]

We had hot dogs tonight.

[Mike Nolan]

She's on the deferred action list, which means no final decision until the next deadline. So she'll have to fill out apps for the other schools on her short list, including Cal Tech and Carnegie-Mellon, where her father went. :sigh:

[Mike Nolan]

She did indeed, and the Veal Zurich was pretty good, too.

[Mike Nolan]

Today is Diane's birthday, so I'm making Veal Zurich on spaetzle for supper, and I got her a piece of sour cream raisin pie from a local pie shop.

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