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  • in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of May 4, 2025? #46277
    Mike Nolan
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      Supper tonight was chicken salad on croissants (from Sams), using some of the leftover rotisserie chicken from yesterday.

      Recipe:

      1 chicken breast, diced
      1 rib of celery, diced
      1 kohlrabi, diced
      24 red grapes, quartered
      1/2 teaspoon mustard
      4 prunes, diced
      1/2 cup miracle whip (more or less)
      salt and pepper

      We tried both margarine and cream cheese on the croissant, both were good, I preferred the margarine, Diane preferred the cream cheese. (They help the chicken salad stick to the croissant, too.)

      in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of May 4, 2025? #46276
      Mike Nolan
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        I found a Chardonnay chicken recipe I will be trying at some point, it uses a white wine cream/mustard sauce using Chardonnay. Good way to use up part of a bottle.

        in reply to: 2025 Gardens #46275
        Mike Nolan
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          I got 11 tomato cages (out of 24) planted this morning, hope to get the rest this evening after it cools down again. Still have eggplants to go in, haven't decided where yet, plus a dill patch.

          I'm never sure if it's the squirrels, rabbits, possums, foxes or raccoons that eat my tomatoes, I think some of the birds poke holes in them, too, looking for bugs? I'm pretty sure it was a rabbit nibbling on my dill last year. I've seen squirrels carrying off tomatoes in their mouth, sometime almost bigger than their head.

          in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of May 4, 2025? #46269
          Mike Nolan
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            we're having a rotisserie chicken for supper tonight

            in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of May 4, 2025? #46265
            Mike Nolan
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              We had leftover spaghetti with some cheese toast made on yesterday's honey wheat bread.

              in reply to: Camera for back deck #46259
              Mike Nolan
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                They turned out to be pelicans, a rare sight here.

                The American white pelican has been seen with increasing frequency in the Great Lakes area recently.

                in reply to: Camera for back deck #46258
                Mike Nolan
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                  Here's what I found when I searched for ''bird feeder hook for deck post":

                  https://www.bestnest.com/product/Erva-Vertical-Deck-Mount-Hanger-for-1-to-15-Rails-Black?src=froogle&kw=ERT-WIPHWD&gad_source=4&gad_campaignid=20509994768&gclid=CjwKCAjwiezABhBZEiwAEbTPGOMIbfGcJzwP1VDA7GpkVN-4YL--KMyCgCSW-XVglc8mWfoIQ1nQYxoC1CUQAvD_BwE

                  This may not be the only brand of them, I can ask the folks at Wild Bird Habitat in Lincoln about it tomorrow.

                  in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of May 4, 2025? #46256
                  Mike Nolan
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                    We had takeout salads for supper.

                    in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of May 4, 2025? #46255
                    Mike Nolan
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                      I'm making honey wheat bread again today, just came out of the oven.

                      in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of May 4, 2025? #46238
                      Mike Nolan
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                        We both had big salads for supper. I'm trying to get back on the keto diet again, it's challenging

                        in reply to: Camera for back deck #46235
                        Mike Nolan
                        Keymaster

                          If you have a Roku device (standalone streamer or TV), the camera is currently on sale for about $40, though the cloud storage is $3.99 a month per camera. You probably don't need a Roku device just to view it on a smartphone, though. You do need a wifi network.

                          That's still a small fraction of what we paid to upgrade the cameras installed around the perimeter of the house and they don't cover all the possible views. I might be getting another Roku camera or two.

                          For a year or so we had a Cooper's Hawk patrolling our back yard, chasing birds and squirrels, and possibly rabbits. Based on feathers and fur I've seen in the yard, I think he was doing OK. I haven't seen him up close lately, but I think I saw him in a neighbor's tree last fall. He did crash into some of our window a couple of times, and spent about a half hour sitting on the balcony railing driving the birds and squirrels crazy once.

                          Last night I saw another fox on the deck and a couple of raccoons standing on the back patio waiting for the fox to leave. I was expecting some kind of confrontation, but I think the fox slipped past them.

                          I know the foxes have caught a few rabbits, we've heard them squealing several times. I don't know if the vixen had a litter this year (last year we had a pair of them), I haven't seen any younger foxes yet but they may not be ready to be escorted around by their parents yet.

                          in reply to: Camera for back deck #46231
                          Mike Nolan
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                            Yes, the hanging feeders are attached to the railing, using a pole with a hook, one we buy at the store where we buy our birdseeds. Here's a close-up of how they attach to the railing:

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                            in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of May 4, 2025? #46220
                            Mike Nolan
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                              We had spaghetti with meat sauce and cheese toast.

                              in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of April 27, 2025? #46205
                              Mike Nolan
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                                I had the last of the pizza, Diane had a sandwich.

                                in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of April 27, 2025? #46198
                                Mike Nolan
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                                  I made a big tray of banana nut mini-muffins tonight, somewhere around 110.

                                  This ought to keep us going for a couple of weeks.

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