[Mike Nolan]

Some of yesterday's eclairs:

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So we had steaks, mushrooms, baked potato and some pastry cream mixed with bananas, with graham cracker crumbs on top.

I also filled 10 eclairs and glazed 7 of them with chocolate ganache.

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I used the rye bread I made and some tomatoes from my hydroponic garden to make tuna melts tonight.

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I made two loaves of marbled rye bread, Peter Reinhart's recipe from BBA.

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We had the 2nd pizza from the batch of dough I made on Wednesday. I used a bit more sauce and whole milk mozzarella cheese, both made the pizza better.

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I did another thin-crust pizza with mushrooms.

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All I can say is "why?" 🙂

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Pizza night, part two, and it was at least as good as last night's pizza. (I did change the cheese blend I used, adding some parmesan and romano and leaving out the alpine blend--raclette, grand cru and fontina.)

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I did a thin crust pizza with just sauce, cheese and mushrooms. Not quite like the one we used to get in Evanston IL in the early 70's, but close enough. (I think the sauce is the missing link.)

The dough makes 2 pizzas, so I'll be doing another one tomorrow night. It'll be interesting to see if having the dough in the fridge overnight changes how the crust is.

I just got the King Arthur pizza book, so I'll be playing around with some recipes from it over the next few months.

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You should be able to find several recipes for buns that use shortening or plant butter, which are vegan.

Here's one.

Easy Hamburger Buns {Vegan}

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I made a meatloaf for tonight's dinner.

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They're small, but tasty, and far better than ones in the store that are picked green and ripened chemically. And it's nice to have fresh tomatoes in April in Nebraska. I don't expect to get any out of the garden until some time in July.

And even the tiny ones are good on a salad.

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I did make honey wheat bread tonight.

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I planted 40 pots of tomatoes and I think 34 of them are doing well enough for transplanting into the garden. (I'll probably only plant about 28.) 85% germination rate is a bit lower than normal.

I posted the latest picking from the indoor tomato hydroponic system in the cooking thread but will post it here as well. Not sure why I'm getting so many tiny tomatoes, probably a nutritional deficiency of some kind. I plan to rip out the current indoor tomato plants some time in June but they keep setting enough new fruit that I'm not in a big hurry, though I want the next set going by mid-July so they start producing around the time the outdoor garden shuts down for the season.

Some of my older cages (at least 35 years old) are wearing out, so I bought a 50 foot roll of concrete mesh to make some new ones.

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We had BLT's using some tomatoes from the hydroponic garden (photo attached), I had mine on some multigrain bread from Aldi that is much better toasted and made into a BLT than untoasted with peanut butter.

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