[Mike Nolan]

Not a new recipe, but I made chicken mirepoix for supper tonight, and I think I hit on a good balance of herbs, some basil and some celery seed.

I use skinned bone-in breasts, because my wife won't eat chicken skin, so I've been experimenting with ways to keep the surface of the breasts from getting too dry. Tonight I tried covering the breasts with cabbage leaves (or as my wife put it--edible cellophane.) I'm not sure if they added much flavor, and they dried out too much to be eaten, but they did seem to keep the breasts themselves from drying out. I'll have to try that again.

[Mike Nolan]

It's called a four-strap pan, and various sizes of them, many sized for commercial ovens and thus too big for most home ovens, are often used in commercial bakeries.

I'm not sure what the holes are for, they may help the bread come out.

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[Mike Nolan]

Yum, cheese 'crackers'. I introduced our granddaughter to them at Christmas, she thought they were marvelous!

[Mike Nolan]

Did they look anything like this:

Frico Caldo

[Mike Nolan]

BakerAunt, I'm looking forward to your weekly 'what did you bake' thread because we need to start talking about baking here! 🙂

[Mike Nolan]

Your orange cake looks great! You aren't actually abandoning the Cubbies in a year when they might just make history??

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[Mike Nolan]

DL, it took me a while to figure it out, too. You do have to sign up for an account at wordpress.com first. (It's free.) It attaches to your email address, so you have to be using the same email address on both sites.

I'm still not sure what's causing it to be turned into a round shape, I know it's not stored that way at Gravatar.

I'm still looking at packages to support locally stored images here, but there are permissions issues to work out. Gravatar seems to be the coming trend, though, especially for those who want to use the same avatar across the Net.

[Mike Nolan]

Checking to see if pictures work:

[Mike Nolan]

I think the structure for the forum package I'm using is OK, but the layout needs serious tweaking to make it easier to find new posts. Right now, it's kind of clumsy to use, and that may slows folk down.

I like the fact that we can do some formatting
here. Color would be nice, though.

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[Mike Nolan]

You're quite welcome, I know I'd miss everyone, too. I hope a lot of the BC-ers come over. But the real key to maintaining and building a viable online community will be to bring in newcomers. That'll take some promotion work on my part.

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