[Mike Nolan]

Today and tomorrow are supposed to be fairly cool, so I'm making French onion soup, probably the last batch of the spring. I've got 10 pounds of onions sliced up and caramelizing in the oven, that pretty much fills up a 12 quart stock pot until they reduce.

[Mike Nolan]

If the camera has a SDHC chip and your computer has a chip reader, you might be able to read them that way. That's how we get the pictures off our outdoor critter camera, as it is much faster than trying to do it via a wireless network connection that isn't very stable. (I like the critter camera pictures, the camera software not so much.)

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I've been making the Roman crust (or a variant on it) for a while, I'm still not completely satisfied with it. I'm looking for a crisper crust. Maybe I need to play around with baking time/temp more?

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Well, it is National Hamburger Day.

But we had potato leek soup from the freezer.

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Can you post a picture of the stamp you have?

Here's one of the views my son sent me of the stamp he's working on, modeled on a photo of a metal one I sent him. The challenge is the handle, you either have to use a lot of dissolving material or make two pieces and put them together somehow. He was working on making the cones smaller at the center.

The recipe in Italian in that old thread is one I tried several times, but without a stamp I never got anything close to a hollow center. (I tried ice cubes in the middle, butter in the middle and a few other ideas.) The rolls were delicious even without a hollow center

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[Mike Nolan]

I should check with my son on how he was doing trying to reproduce the rosetta stamp on his 3D printer. He's been pretty busy with his job lately, he told me he hasn't baked any bread in weeks.

[Mike Nolan]

An interesting article, not enough pictures, though, and it doesn't answer the question of how to make a honey-stuffed challah.

Idan (ChallahPrince) has some really complicated braids on his Instagram page. I asked him the question about the 6 strand braid in The Deli Man, he agrees with Jeff Hamelman that it is the same as the classic 6 strand braid, but admits that the way it is done looks totally different and weird, he calls it a 'baker thing'.

[Mike Nolan]

The brand on the lemon juice is Limmi, apparently.

[Mike Nolan]

We had fish with broccoli again tonight. We found some Italian bottled lemon juice at Costco, and have been using it, it is very good, much better than ReaLemon.

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We don't hear from her very often, but happy birthday, Sara!

[Mike Nolan]

Swordfish is quite a bit fattier than tuna, that affects cooking methods. I've ordered it in restaurants on the coast, was never really excited by it. I'm not sure if any of the local 'fresh' (often actually frozen and thawed) fish outlets have it.

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I'm always happy to hear from Cass, directly or indirectly. I think about him frequently.

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I've seen suggestions for a half-and-half pie with a strip of dough down the middle as a divider, but I've never tried it.

[Mike Nolan]

I'm not very experienced at grilling, either, I can do a steak but it is easier for me to pan fry it and finish it in the oven. I do burgers on the grill, and I like to do chicken or turkey using the rotisserie.

Our grill is about 24 years old and one of the gas controls no longer works, we'll have to replace it at some point (nobody does repairs on grills anymore), I think I used it less than a dozen times all summer last year, mostly for burgers, somehow it doesn't seem worthwhile to spend $1000+ on a fancy new grill, and the smaller ones generally don't have rotisseries these days.

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Swai would probably be a good fish done en papillote (in a parchment bag), I've usually cooked whitefish with lemon, but I've also used white wine or rice wine vinegar and even Worcestershire, and it is good done on a bed of cooked mirepoix (finely chopped onions, celery and carrots,or you can leave the onions out, it'd also be good with some red bell pepper.)

The frozen orange roughy we can get are OK, the fresh ones are better but a lot more expensive. I like red snapper, but Diane doesn't. I seldom buy cod and won't buy tilapia any more.

I grew up within a few miles of the Mississippi, catfish was pretty common, but also bluegill. My mother loved smelt, probably because there wasn't much to preparing it.

I'm not surprised your husband thought the swai tasted like catfish, it used to be sold as 'Asian catfish' before the US Government prohibited that.

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