[Mike Nolan]

Len was the Old Milwaukee bread based on the one in Ginsberg's book? I've made that one and we liked it a lot.

[Mike Nolan]

It's been years since I called the KA hotline, but the last few times I did, AI might have given a better answer. Used to be when you talked to someone on the hotline, you had some confidence that she actually baked a lot and had experience with recently posted recipes.

Discourse, the platform I'm using for two other online forums I run and another I help manage, has an AI tool, I haven't looked to see if WordPress has one, as I'm not sure what we'd use it for. If it offered a better way to search the archives, that might be useful, but I'm not sure I trust an AI engine to help bake a loaf of bread yet. (Though recently I saw an AI-generated article on yeast additives that was pretty impressive, though I was still assuming that it was accurate.)

[Mike Nolan]

I had a sandwich with tomato, salami, turkey and provolone. Diane had frijoles with cheese and salsa.

[Mike Nolan]

My son makes cheesecake filling and puts it in small canning jars with fruit, he says it lasts several weeks in the fridge. (But at the price of canning jars, well over $1 each, make sure you get them back!)

[Mike Nolan]

I add them in with all the other ingredients. I have a couple of recipes that call for ground caraway, it is an interesting change from caraway seeds getting stuck in your teeth, but I can never decide if the caraway flavor is more intense.

[Mike Nolan]

We had salads with some of the leftover rotisserie chicken meat.

Eggs at Aldi were $2.68 a dozen on Saturday, that's up about 50 cents from a week ago.

[Mike Nolan]

Salami and tomato sandwiches here.

[Mike Nolan]

I took the rest of the tomato plants that I had started indoors in March and put them in some bare spots in the garden, if I get any tomatoes from them at all, that'll be a bonus. Most of them were pretty big.

I'm not impressed with the First Lady II plants I grew from the seeds I got in January, next year I might switch to Defiant. It's a determinant but that's the one that one of the test gardens at UNL grew one year as a yield test and we got something like 100 pounds of them, and they were tasty tomatoes, and high-yield.

I've still got about 20 quarts of tomato juice left from last year, this year I think I'm going to switch to mostly making and canning tomato sauce, plus some tomato relish

[Mike Nolan]

She had two hard boiled eggs for supper, I had tuna salad on a bed of lettuce and tomato.

[Mike Nolan]

She's not even taking tylenol much at this point.

[Mike Nolan]

I also am making custard for Diane. I had a sandwich tonight, she's on soft foods today and will probably not eat much that requires chewing tomorrow as well. I was planning an eye-of-round roast on the outdoor grill for tomorrow, but I put it in the freezer and will make it another day.

[Mike Nolan]

I made chocolate pudding for Diane this afternoon, she had a crown come off last night and the molar underneath was cracked, so she had it extracted today and is on soft foods for a few days.

[Mike Nolan]

We had KC strip steak with a salad.

[Mike Nolan]

I started the left Aerogarden today with Salanova, Buttercrunch and Black Seeded Simpson lettuce.

I'll wait a couple of weeks before starting the right one, probably also with an all- lettuce crop, though not Salanova unless I order more seed from Johnny's, as I finished off the seed I had.

[Mike Nolan]

With the possible exception of Texas Chocolate Sheet Cake, I tend to keep frosting to a moderately thin layer, even a cream cheese frosting like on a carrot cake. It always cracks me up when I see pictures of cupcakes with frosting that is more than half of the total height of the cupcake.

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