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Mike Nolan

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  • in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of September 8, 2024? #43909
    Mike Nolan
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      I've got another batch of tomato sauce cooking, I think this makes #6. Hopefully I can get 2-4 more batches before the garden stops producing.

      I will probably be picking the first of the spaghetti squash this weekend.

      Last night's tuna melt was so good we did it again tonight, gotta take advantage of the tomatoes while we can!

      in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of September 8, 2024? #43899
      Mike Nolan
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        We did tuna melts without the bread:

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        in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of September 8, 2024? #43895
        Mike Nolan
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          Don't have supper plans yet (probably something involving tomatoes), but I did get another batch of tomato sauce started. Will probably need to do another batch by Friday.

          in reply to: Climate resistant whole wheat bread #43888
          Mike Nolan
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            It was an interesting article to read, fairly well researched and written.

            in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of September 8, 2024? #43876
            Mike Nolan
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              We did have the smoked pork chops tonight, with some of my apple butter from last fall and a salad.

              in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of September 8, 2024? #43865
              Mike Nolan
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                We had a social gathering with appetizers and it turned out there were enough things we could eat (though not extremely carb-friendly) that we didn't do the pork chops tonight, maybe tomorrow.

                in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of September 1, 2024? #43857
                Mike Nolan
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                  We're having the 2nd half of yesterday's pizza.

                  in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of September 1, 2024? #43854
                  Mike Nolan
                  Keymaster

                    They still looked a bit gooey in the middle, but that can be a good thing with brownies. 🙂

                    in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of September 1, 2024? #43852
                    Mike Nolan
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                      It was - to myself. 🙂

                      in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of September 1, 2024? #43849
                      Mike Nolan
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                        I made another pizza tonight, on my new stainless steel 12 inch pizza pan. I think the dough needed a few more minutes in the oven, but it was tasty. I might have to play with the oven temperature/baking time.

                        in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of September 1, 2024? #43848
                        Mike Nolan
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                          Our younger son used to make the oatmeal crisps cookies with butter (so did my sister), they definitely came out flat. I'm not sure if increasing the amount of shortening would make them flatter, which is why I will try it the next time I make these. At the rate of about one cookie a day, it could be October before I'm ready to make them again. The ones with additional oatmeal were definitely less flat, so that might be an option as well.

                          I lowered the temperature 25 degrees because I've had issues with allulose-based cookies getting too dark, so that might have been a factor as well.

                          If you research online how to make cookies crisp, there are multiple not necessarily consistent suggestions, such as decrease moisture, increase the amount of sugar, which I don't think would help with allulose, because it has different crystal states than sucrose, and add fat.

                          in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of September 1, 2024? #43846
                          Mike Nolan
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                            The edges are my wife's favorite part, anyway. We have one of those 'all edges' pans, but I haven't made brownies since last year. I did use it for cornbread once, because I was planning to use it for stuffing.

                            in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of September 1, 2024? #43842
                            Mike Nolan
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                              So: Tea, a drink with jam and bread,
                              that will keep you making dough.

                              in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of September 1, 2024? #43834
                              Mike Nolan
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                                I made another batch of tomato sauce/marinara tonight, that makes about 35 pounds of tomatoes I've turned into sauce this season.

                                Dinner tonight is salami and cantaloupe, I may also have some salad and possibly a tomato since I picked some nice big ones today that didn't go in the stockpot for sauce.

                                in reply to: King Arthur’s Big Book of Bread #43830
                                Mike Nolan
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                                  I know of several of the authors and have been in forums with a couple of them, but that's not much of a recommendation. My guess is this is not a book I need, certainly not when I'm almost never baking with wheat products. However, their books are usually helpful, informative and have recipes that work, something I cannot say about a few cookbooks I own. Several online bookstores have a pre-publication price of $27, FWIW.

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