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  • in reply to: refrigerator issues again #44926
    Mike Nolan
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      Probably won't be a repairman out to look at the refrigerator until Friday, and then it'll be a week-plus for parts, which puts us into Christmas week to do repairs. This is going to affect holiday meal planning.

      in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of December 8, 2024? #44920
      Mike Nolan
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        So tonight we finished off the chicken marsala.

        It's been 3 or so years since this fridge was worked on, and it is, after all, almost 28 years old. And replacements aren't going to fit in the same space, SZ's current models are about 6 inches higher. There was another maker (Frigidaire, I think) making one that fit in the same space as two SZ's side-by-sides, but when we looked at this two years ago there was something like a 6 month backorder list. I'll probably call the appliance store this week, just to see what they say.

        in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of December 1, 2024? #44909
        Mike Nolan
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          We had chicken Marsala this evening, on cauliflower rice or toast.

          in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of November 24, 2024? #44908
          Mike Nolan
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            Diane is making a German's sweet chocolate cake for a friend's birthday (a few days late, it was last week), and I'm busy being her commis.

            in reply to: Doc Ford’s Rum Bar and Grill at the St. Pete’s Pier #44904
            Mike Nolan
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              I'm pretty sure I read all of John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee books, though I'm missing a couple of them now. I recently reread several of them, somehow they're just not as enjoyable as they were 40 years ago, but as I recall the last few in the series were a bit disappointing even back then. Rumors of an unpublished book (with 'black' as the color in the title) that ended the series continue to circulate, though the MacDonald estate has denied its existence many times.

              A continuing series of books is a challenge for an author, sometimes they just run out of new ideas, and reading them, or especially rereading them, makes you realize how repetitive the series has become.

              in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of November 24, 2024? #44901
              Mike Nolan
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                I looked up a recipe for Moravian sugar cake, wow, that sounds good but the carbs must be astronomical.

                in reply to: Doc Ford’s Rum Bar and Grill at the St. Pete’s Pier #44899
                Mike Nolan
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                  The Doc Ford Mystery series, by Randy Wayne White. Not one I've read, but I may have to look into them as well. The protagonist is a marine biologist and former CIA agent.

                  He has written several mystery series, under multiple author names, and also wrote the Gulf Coast Cookbook.

                  in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of December 1, 2024? #44898
                  Mike Nolan
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                    We had the last of the pizza from Wednesday, plus the last of the apple pie from Thanksgiving.

                    in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of December 1, 2024? #44890
                    Mike Nolan
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                      My plan is to make chicken Marsala for supper tonight.

                      in reply to: Seeking Recipe for Ladokouloura #44885
                      Mike Nolan
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                        Years ago when I was in Chicago, one of the employees in my department was Greek and would bring in her pastries every few weeks. (She was especially fond of making ones with gold or silver foil on them.)

                        Some of them she made several different ways, I suspect if you ask a dozen Greek bakers for recipes you'll get 20 different ones. 🙂

                        in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of December 1, 2024? #44884
                        Mike Nolan
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                          I think King Arthur hasn't owned a flour mill in decades, they outsource the milling of their flours but they are still milled to their specifications. They may contract directly with farmers for wheat or work cooperatively with the mills on wheat sources, I know when they took their staff to Kansas a year or two ago they included both a mill and at least one wheat farm.

                          in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of December 1, 2024? #44875
                          Mike Nolan
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                            I've been putting cornmeal on the peel then putting the pizza dough on it, making sure it slides around.

                            I got a pie dough rolling bag from King Arthur recently, and it works really well for both pizzas and pie crusts, you put the dough in the transparent 14" bag, dust both sides with a little flour, zip it closed, then roll it out through the plastic. Circles imprinted on one side of the bag help you get it to the size circle you want. When you open the bag, you can place the dough where you want it on the pan or peel, then pull off the other side of the bag leaving the dough where you want it.

                            in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of December 1, 2024? #44873
                            Mike Nolan
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                              My wife got two hydroponic tomatoes from the hydroponics lab at work, so we're having tuna melts tonight.

                              in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of December 1, 2024? #44871
                              Mike Nolan
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                                Thanks, I think I'm getting the hang of transferring it from the peel to the baking steel without it getting a weird non-round shape to it. It was tasty: my homemade marinara, artichoke hearts, mushrooms, yellow sweet peppers, green olives, pepperoni, mozzarella, cream cheese and romano cheese. We cut it into 6 pieces, one piece per meal, so this will do 3 meals for each of us.

                                in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of December 1, 2024? #44869
                                Mike Nolan
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                                  The apple pie filling recipe I learned at SFBI has you cook the apples until they bend a bit, I've used that filling in pies, galettes, turnovers, apple tarts and Irish apple cake, it works well for all of those.

                                  I also took some of my Winesap apples a couple of years ago, cut the apples up a bit smaller and cooked it a little further, then used it as a topping for ice cream. Yum!

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