Mike Nolan

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  • in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of July 31, 2022? #35223
    Mike Nolan
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      I've made penuche fudge before, but not as a frosting. (There's not a lot of difference between them, IMHO, the frosting might be just a bit softer but it hardens as it ages.)

      in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of July 31, 2022? #35214
      Mike Nolan
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        For supper we had salads with some of the left over roast beef and some small tomatoes from the garden, plus some cantaloupe.

        I see some cantaloupe in the garden that are starting to develop striations, the first sign of ripening.

        in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of July 31, 2022? #35211
        Mike Nolan
        Keymaster

          There are several types of eggplant spreads, the most well-know of which is baba ganoush, which usually has a lot of garlic in it. There are several recipes online for an eggplant spread which also uses tomato paste.

          in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of July 31, 2022? #35201
          Mike Nolan
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            My wife says the penuche frosting tastes a lot like a maple frosting, and she's right!

            We both decided we don't really wanna know how many carbs are in a well-frosted roll.

            in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of July 31, 2022? #35193
            Mike Nolan
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              Here's the rolls plus my take on penuche frosting (I added some Lyle's Golden Syrup):

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              in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of July 31, 2022? #35148
              Mike Nolan
              Keymaster

                I've got more white eggplant than I know what to do with right now, and the people we normally give our excess eggplant to are all out of town.

                I'm planning a small batch of ratatouille, but that won't use up a third of what I need to harvest soon.

                Not interested in breaded/fried eggplant, maybe some baked or roasted recipes?

                in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of July 31, 2022? #35142
                Mike Nolan
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                  I'm fond of cauliflower, but Diane isn't, so I don't buy it very often and I've never tried to grow it. I've tried growing broccoli and brussels sprouts a few times, never had a really good crop of them, and they're both readily available in the farmers market and stores.

                  in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of July 31, 2022? #35140
                  Mike Nolan
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                    Supper tonight was sweet corn, tomato and salami sandwiches, and some sweet cherries for dessert.

                    in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of July 31, 2022? #35139
                    Mike Nolan
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                      I may make some cinnamon rolls this evening, as a thank-you present for my neighbor, who helped us cut a path to the air conditioner units outside Tuesday morning, cutting through about 10 feet of raspberry bramble.

                      in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of July 31, 2022? #35002
                      Mike Nolan
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                        I thought the price for oysters was steep last December, sounds like they've gone up further since then. For us oyster stew is a once-a-year dish.

                        in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of July 31, 2022? #34983
                        Mike Nolan
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                          One of my wife's colleagues (recently retired) has now had COVID twice, and so has her physical therapist. So far neither of us have tested positive for it, despite Diane having been exposed to it several times. :knock on wood:

                          I wish I could figure out why some posts have problems displaying non-Roman characters and others don't. I don't know if it has to do with what they're being posted with or something else. I don't see any discussion of this problem on the WordPress forums, but I can't imagine it is unique to us.

                          in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of July 31, 2022? #34978
                          Mike Nolan
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                            Dinner tonight was New York strip steak on the grill, some sauteed mushrooms and a baked potato. I've been trying a variety of steaks on the new grill, and I'm definitely noticing the flavor differences. I haven't done a rib-eye or sirloin yet. I did an eye of round over the weekend and we're still working on it for sandwiches and such.

                            One of the stores has pork back ribs on sale this week, so I'll probably get a slab and plan on doing it some time next week.

                            in reply to: Bob’s Red Mill is closing their online store! #34977
                            Mike Nolan
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                              I don't know when King Arthur became an ESOP, but they definitely cater more to the "I don't want to bake from scratch" crowd than to serious bakers these days. I don't think I've ordered anything from them for well over a year now, and I'm not in a hurry to do so. Their special dry milk is the only thing I haven't found a replacement for from someone else, one that is often superior to theirs.

                              in reply to: Cinnamon Rolls! #34923
                              Mike Nolan
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                                I looked in the kitchen gadget drawers, and while we have 3 wire blade cutters, all of them have a bar that limits the thickness of the slices, so they wouldn't work for cinnamon rolls.

                                in reply to: Bob’s Red Mill is closing their online store! #34915
                                Mike Nolan
                                Keymaster

                                  I just checked for the BRM white pastry flour online, and the best price I saw was about $7.50 per 5 pound bag if you ordered 4 of them. Most prices were well above that.

                                  This is another type of inflation that IMHO BRM is responsible for. Bob Moore must be crying in his oatmeal over what BRM has become since he sold it to his employees.

                                  I also noticed that you can't trust the per-ounce price on Amazon, one of them was WAY off, as in about a quarter of the true per-ounce price.

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