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  • in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of March 31, 2024? #42312
    Mike Nolan
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      I'm doing a beef stir fry tonight, with cauliflower rice.

      in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of March 31, 2024? #42309
      Mike Nolan
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        We had tacos tonight, and I'm making another batch of custard.

        in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of March 31, 2024? #42301
        Mike Nolan
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          We're having ham, probably some broccoli and, of course, deviled eggs (which are keto-friendly.) Probably another tiny slice of apple pie for dessert.

          in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of March 24, 2024? #42291
          Mike Nolan
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            We had the last of the onion soup (other than what I froze) for lunch, so I just had a small salad for dinner.

            in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of March 24, 2024? #42288
            Mike Nolan
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              The keto-friendly hot cross buns were OK, but the spice flavors were muted compared to the KAF hot cross buns recipe I usually make, even though there's more spice as a percentage of the dough. The almond flour may be masking the spices somehow. I think using some pecan or sunflower meal for part of the almond flour would probably have improved them.

              They took quite a bit longer to bake fully, but that's been true of several recipes from that site.

              I tried making some cream cheese frosting with allulose instead of powder sugar, the allulose is smaller grained than granulated sugar but still much larger than powdered sugar so they taste a little gritty, but when you put them on a hot cross bun you don't really notice that. But there's not much frosting on a hot cross bun, so using the allulose version seems a bit unnecessary.

              in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of March 24, 2024? #42286
              Mike Nolan
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                I'm trying a keto-friendly hot cross buns recipe today, though I did add some raisins, they just aren't hot cross buns without raisins! But I only used a quarter-cup in a recipe that made 9 rolls.

                in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of March 24, 2024? #42283
                Mike Nolan
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                  We finished off the BBQ beef on some keto buns that I had frozen.

                  in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of March 24, 2024? #42277
                  Mike Nolan
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                    Forgot to say I baked an apple pie last night.

                    Mike Nolan
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                      My wife brings home lettuce from the hydroponics professor's test greenhouse every now and then, it's really good. (One of the varieties she got from him was so good I found out what the seed was and ordered it for my Aerogarden, where it grows very nicely.)

                      His tomatoes are incredible, big and tasty, and the plants are like 10 feet tall and keep getting longer as they grow, so the non-bearing part of the vine stretches several feet off to the side.

                      in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of March 24, 2024? #42275
                      Mike Nolan
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                        We had onion soup and a small slice of the apple pie I baked last night.

                        in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of March 24, 2024? #42271
                        Mike Nolan
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                          I have hot cross buns dough rising, enough for one batch of 16 and 3 batches of 8, all to give away tomorrow.

                          in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of March 24, 2024? #42270
                          Mike Nolan
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                            I'm making a big pot of onion soup today, using 10 pounds of onions and 3+ quarts of chicken stock.

                            in reply to: 2024 Gardening #42268
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                              I started 7 varieties of tomatoes today: First Lady II, Amish Paste, Italian Heirloom, 4th of July, Porter, Celebrity and Rutgers. Assuming enough of them sprout, the first 3 will each get a full row, the 4th of July and Porter will share a row as will the Celebrity and Rutgers.

                              I'll start some other vegetables next week, I should have 50 leek plants arriving soon. Our common plant for the urban gardening project this year is sweet corn. That'll be a new one for me, I've not grown corn, at least not intentionally. (The squirrels have planted some corn from critter corn we threw out for them that came up.) I don't know if I'll put in melons this year, but I may put in some eggplant and broccoli. Once I figure out where everything else goes, I'll decide if I want to do any zucchini or other squash.

                              in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of March 24, 2024? #42265
                              Mike Nolan
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                                I had a big salad from the Aerogarden with some turkey on it. Diane had some corned beef on a keto bun.

                                in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of March 24, 2024? #42253
                                Mike Nolan
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                                  We had tuna salad on a bed of lettuce. I chopped up a small hothouse tomato as well, not really all that tasty but colorful and at least a hint of tomato flavor.

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