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Mike Nolan

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  • in reply to: What are you Baking the week of June 9, 2019? #16533
    Mike Nolan
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      I make notes on a post-it note, then stick it on the recipe with followup comments afterwards.

      in reply to: Busy and Expensive Day #16525
      Mike Nolan
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        Our SubZero refrigerator-in-a-drawer doesn't appear to be cooling at all today, I've suspected it wasn't cooling well for a while, veggies weren't lasting as long as thought they should. I cleaned the coils, but I don't think that's going to fix the problem. SubZero is better than most appliance companies at keeping parts in stock, but it usually takes several weeks to get one diagnosed, get parts ordered and have them installed.

        in reply to: Busy and Expensive Day #16514
        Mike Nolan
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          Around here if you can get an appliance replaced in a week, you've done well. It can take that long just to get a repairman out.

          in reply to: What are You Cooking the Week of June 2, 2019? #16513
          Mike Nolan
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            We had a lavash pizza tonight.

            in reply to: What are You Baking the Week of June 2, 2019? #16504
            Mike Nolan
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              I'm making Vienna Bread today.

              in reply to: What are You Baking the Week of June 2, 2019? #16491
              Mike Nolan
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                I made a batch of chocolate chip oatmeal cookies last night to take to the Barstow Alexander Workshop wrap-up party.

                in reply to: June 7th is National Donut Day #16475
                Mike Nolan
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                  I know at LaMars the raised glazed is #1 and the old-fashioned sour cream cake donut is #2. But my personal favorite is the regular cake donut with chocolate icing.

                  in reply to: Medical journal article on sodium in diet #16441
                  Mike Nolan
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                    It hasn't been too hard, I mainly have to be careful when eating out, my cooking was pretty low-salt to start with.

                    The Lancet article and the Wall Street Journal article both seem so suggest that 3500 mg of sodium might be the 'sweet spot' when considering long term health trends, but I doubt the US officials or American medical community will change their recommendations on the basis of just one journal article. It may be that high sodium diets by themselves aren't bad for you, but the other things in them (high fat, high carbs, etc) are.

                    And I've seen fast food meals that exceeded 3500 mg of sodium!

                    in reply to: Peter Reinhard #16416
                    Mike Nolan
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                      I don't have a Facebook account. I keep hoping to find time to attend some event Peter Reinhart is lecturing at, I still email him from time to time, the Asheville Bread Festival would be my first choice, even though that's a long ways from Nebraska.

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                      in reply to: Flour Frosting by Stella Parks #16395
                      Mike Nolan
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                        This seems like a more complex recipe than the one Swirth talks about.

                        in reply to: Cake flour #16384
                        Mike Nolan
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                          My older son has been recruited by Google at least twice, once he didn't get past the phone interview stage and the second time they flew him out for a day of on-site interviews, but declined to offer him a position.

                          in reply to: Cake flour #16382
                          Mike Nolan
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                            I hope she sold her Sears stock before Lampert bankrupted the company!

                            in reply to: Cake flour #16370
                            Mike Nolan
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                              Years ago one of the professors at UNL went to work at Apple. They gave him a block of stock in part so that he was worth more than his secretary.

                              When our younger son moved to SF to work at Youtube, he got some Google stock options, a portion of which vests every month. I gather not all new hires get them, though.

                              Our older son is currently with a company that (I think) is still pre-IPO and maybe eventually he'll cash in on that. The last time he changed jobs (a year ago) he had offers from Oracle, Disney and Slack.

                              in reply to: Cake flour #16368
                              Mike Nolan
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                                One of the reasons for employee-ownership plans is to try to prevent a sale to a large corporation, as it complicates the process. That has downsides, too.

                                in reply to: Ruby Chocolate #16361
                                Mike Nolan
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                                  I've been contemplating buying another bag of the ruby cacao chips, if I can think of something to bake them into. They'd make for an interesting variant on 'blondies', or maybe in a red velvet cake, or perhaps as a surprise ingredient in the cream cheese frosting?

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