Mike Nolan

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  • in reply to: What are You Cooking the Week of September 15, 2019 #18201
    Mike Nolan
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      This Tuesday will be our 47th anniversary, Joan.

      in reply to: When You Can’t Fit a Dough Sheeter into Your Kitchen.… #18200
      Mike Nolan
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        There are some that appear to fit on a 30" x 14" space, I could see doing one on a small table that stores away when not in use. The big challenge might be that some of them can't handle anything over an inch thick, and laminated dough often is thicker than that at the start of each turn.

        Interestingly enough, when you search on 'slab roller' today, you also get a number of pasta rollers, which didn't happen a few days ago, so I suspect we're not the only bakers who have gone net-surfing.

        in reply to: Daily Quiz for September 15, 2019 #18193
        Mike Nolan
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          Speaking of butterflies, the annual invasion of Painted Ladies has started here.

          And the hummingbirds finally arrived, we've been seeing a half dozen or more at a time yesterday and today.

          in reply to: Daily Quiz for September 15, 2019 #18186
          Mike Nolan
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            I don't use chemicals on our lawn or in our garden. If I lose some of my tomato crop to bugs, that's just part of the cycle of life. I'm tempted to find an area of the yard to seed in buckwheat again, it was really pretty and the bees LOVED it.

            Buckwheat

            Bee in buckwheat flower

            in reply to: What are You Cooking the Week of September 8, 2019? #18178
            Mike Nolan
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              My wife is working on making grape jelly today. I made about 9 quarts of tomato sauce last night and packaged it up this morning.

              in reply to: What are You Cooking the Week of September 8, 2019? #18172
              Mike Nolan
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                Tomato and salami sandwiches here.

                in reply to: What are You Baking the Week of September 8, 2019? #18162
                Mike Nolan
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                  I never grease pie tins. I've been using the NorPro non-stick pie pan for a couple years now, and it is still the best non-stick pan I've ever used. I let the pie cool, then a slight twist is all it takes to completely free it from the pan. Then I slide the pie into a different pie pan, usually a disposable aluminum one if the pan is going somewhere, or onto a large plate if it is to be eaten at home.

                  in reply to: The 2019 Gardens #18157
                  Mike Nolan
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                    We've had coyotes here, too, though I haven't seen one lately. We also had a river otter once, he was truly lost as the nearest river or stream is a good mile away. But that was after several days of heavy rains and flooding and we were guessing he got flushed away from his usual haunts and went overland to try to get back home. And there was an elk that animal control followed through the neighborhood a few years ago before it broke a leg jumping a fence around the corner, we figure he almost had to have gone through our back yard to get to that fence.

                    For a while we had raccoons using our deck just outside the master bedroom door as a latrine, but between redoing the deck and cutting back on the trees that they were climbing up on to get to the deck, we seem to have discouraged them.

                    We also stopped feeding squirrels on the deck, as they were starting to eat the decking (composite wood) itself. That cut down on the number of raccoons and possums, too. Didn't seem to affect the cardinals much, but there are all sorts of berries for them to eat along the back fence.

                    The area where I put in elderberries about 10 years ago has kind of gotten overgrown with volunteer trees, mostly maple but one oak, so I'm planning to order a number of bearing elderberry plants next spring and put them in along the east side where we used to have a full row of dogwoods, but only a few of them survived being cut back several years ago.

                    The black raspberries have spread to that side of the yard, but I think we're going to rip them out on that side, we haven't gotten any berries the last several years, some years because the birds got them all first and other years because we were busy and didn't check to see if they were ripe yet until after they peaked. We seldom got more than a couple cups of them, anyway.

                    in reply to: What are You Cooking the Week of September 8, 2019? #18144
                    Mike Nolan
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                      I see recipes for cauliflower that use dill, chives, nutmeg, thyme, tarragon, garlic, cayenne pepper and paprika, though not all in the same recipe. 🙂

                      The spices I think of as Mediterranean or Italian (oregano, basil, marjoram, rosemary, sage, bay leaf. saffron and cumin) don't seem to show up in cauliflower recipes, I haven't checked the Indian/Asian spice groups, but I doubt they would, either, though raw cauliflower is good with curry dips.

                      in reply to: The 2019 Gardens #18142
                      Mike Nolan
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                        I bought a two compartment tumbling compost bin from gardeners.com last year but I think I loaded it with too much 'brown' and not enough 'green' last fall because it hasn't produced any compost yet this season. I've been throwing more green stuff in it lately in the hopes of getting some compost by next spring. I probably need to put water in it more frequently, too.

                        Around here an open compost heap is an invitation to the raccoons, possums, foxes, mice, voles and other critters. It's probably even worse for you in Indiana.

                        in reply to: The 2019 Gardens #18139
                        Mike Nolan
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                          I picked tomatoes this morning, probably about 40 pounds worth, should make at least 6 quarts of sauce.

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                          in reply to: What are You Baking the Week of September 8, 2019? #18138
                          Mike Nolan
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                            If you've never tried the oatmeal crisps (chocolate chip oatmeal cookies) recipe I have posted, I still think it is the one of the best cookie recipes I've ever tasted, especially if you have milk to dunk them in. This is the second most requested thing I bake after the Texas Chocolate Sheet Cake. You do need to use Crisco as opposed to butter, though.

                            in reply to: When You Can’t Fit a Dough Sheeter into Your Kitchen.… #18132
                            Mike Nolan
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                              Ingenious, now I'll lay awake nights trying to figure out how to sneak one into my kitchen.

                              in reply to: What are You Baking the Week of September 8, 2019? #18131
                              Mike Nolan
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                                Something they had us do in pastry school was to pound the disc of pie dough with the rolling pin a number of times before starting to roll it out. Apparently that 'shocks' the butter or other fat, which is a semi-solid (if fully thawed), so that it rolls out better.

                                in reply to: What are You Cooking the Week of September 8, 2019? #18111
                                Mike Nolan
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                                  We had salad with tuna fish tonight.

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