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  • in reply to: What are you cooking the week of October 7, 2018? #13682
    Mike Nolan
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      I'm hoping it dries up enough for the guy who cuts our grass to get one last mowing in before the grass gets all tamped down by snow, it needed mowing over a week ago but it's been raining too much. Not sure that last mowing is going to happen, there's more rain in the forecast for Friday.

      in reply to: What are you cooking the week of October 7, 2018? #13677
      Mike Nolan
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        I made another batch of chicken noodle soup today. There's a possibility of snow in the next week here.

        in reply to: What are you baking the week of October 7, 2018? #13676
        Mike Nolan
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          Historically, I suspect the people who ate Boston Brown Bread and baked beans wouldn't have had access to many vegetables in cold weather.

          in reply to: What are you cooking the week of October 7, 2018? #13673
          Mike Nolan
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            If it ever stops raining, I may go pick the green tomatoes and lay them in the garage to ripen over the next several weeks. They're now forecasting a low of 29 over the weekend here!

            in reply to: Book proclaimes Chicago as Pizza Capital of USA #13672
            Mike Nolan
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              Oh, yeah, few things will tick off New Yorkers as much as being told their pizza isn't the best. (The Yankees losing badly to Boston, like they did last night, comes close, though.)

              in reply to: What are you baking the week of October 7, 2018? #13671
              Mike Nolan
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                Boston Brown Bread is heavy and very molasses tasting, try it with some baked beans.

                It was intended as a replacement for the protein in a meal, incidentally.

                in reply to: Creamy Chicken Marsala #13663
                Mike Nolan
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                  I tend to buy bone-in breasts and skin/debone them myself, with the bone going into the stock pot for the next batch of chicken stock. Bone-in breasts were 88 cents/pound on Saturday, boneless/skinless breasts were like $2.59 a pound.

                  in reply to: What are you cooking the week of October 7, 2018? #13662
                  Mike Nolan
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                    I'll probably give up and turn the furnace on in the next day or two, it's supposed to get down into the 30's by Wednesday.

                    in reply to: What are you baking the week of October 7, 2018? #13661
                    Mike Nolan
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                      I'm making honey wheat bread today.

                      in reply to: Book proclaimes Chicago as Pizza Capital of USA #13650
                      Mike Nolan
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                        Deep dish goes back to at least the 60's, because I had it at Gulliver's on Howard when I was at Northwestern, and I was there from 1967 to 1972. But thin crust was both more prevalent and more varied. And that was before the Uno's/Due's pizza war.

                        I remember going on a LONG car trip with some of my dorm mates from Evanston to a place on the south side (around 66th street) in about 1970, I would have said that was Giordano's but their website says they were founded in 1974. It was a 2-3 hour wait for a table on a Sunday afternoon.

                        Nancy's claims to have originated stuffed pizza in 1971.

                        in reply to: What are you cooking the week of September 30, 2018? #13644
                        Mike Nolan
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                          I made creamy chicken marsala and served it on toast.

                          in reply to: What are you cooking the week of September 30, 2018? #13640
                          Mike Nolan
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                            We had creamed tuna on biscuits tonight, comfort food that sounded good to my wife, I think her stomach is on the mend. Plus, after it hit 92 on Wednesday, it got cold and rainy again, so something warm was REALLY good.

                            in reply to: What are you baking the week of September 30, 2018? #13635
                            Mike Nolan
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                              The McGinnis Sisters grocery stores in the Pittsburgh area make a semolina bread that is fantastic, I've tried a number of times to duplicate the recipe, but haven't come close yet.

                              in reply to: Substituting for Garlic and Onion #13628
                              Mike Nolan
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                                I haven't had to cut all alliums out of our diet yet, just garlic. I use onions in moderation.

                                I believe leeks are also alliums, as are chives, so anyone with a major allium problem probably can't substitute them.

                                in reply to: Crockpot #13598
                                Mike Nolan
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                                  Using the slow cooker to make a Russian black bread recipe is on my list of things to try 'soon', right now I'm just waiting for my wife's stomach to settle down again.

                                  We do have two ovens in our 48" dual fuel DCS range, but the slow cooker still sounds like the way to go for this.

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