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I had about 20 winesap apples left and they were getting a little soft for pies, so I'm making another batch of apple butter. It just filled the slow cooker.
Happy birthday, I hope you can reschedule your celebration. A friend of ours had his birthday in December but was working double shifts at the railroad repair shop at the time, so they just had it last night.
I don't think I've ever tried to braid a rye dough, but when I do the marbled rye bread I shape several rectangles, stack them in alternating colors and roll it up, and that seems to work well.
The Swiss steak was very good, and we had it with mashed potatoes.
A couple of years ago I made my wife's mother's Swiss steak recipe, today I'm doing my own take on that recipe from my notes, more onions, adding some beef stock, carrots and celery. I did the browning and sauteeing on the stove top but I'm doing the slow cooking in the oven in my dutch oven.
The cold weather is here, a high of about 7 today with sub-zero lows and a few sub-zero highs for most of the next 4 days. Snow expected to stop in the next few hours, but we've probably gotten 6 inches since yesterday afternoon.
That's a good one, BA.
We had baked pork chops with orange juice, brown sugar, mustard powder, salt and pepper. Yummy and a keeper recipe. These were bone-in, next time I'll probably try boneless chops.
We also had salad with artichoke hearts and olives.
https://www.cdkitchen.com/recipes/recs/2306/Orange-Baked-Pork-Chops108257.shtml
When I make marbled rye bread, I use Peter Reinhart's recipe in BBA, but I change it to 41% medium rye flour vs 30% white rye in the book. Above that and I find the dough doesn't rise as well.
We had leftovers as we watch the Washington-Michigan game.
I'm making semolina bread today, letting the bulk rise go longer than normal because it is cool in the kitchen, as it has been snowing since around 8AM after some freezing rain. We could wind up with as much as 10 inches of snow from this storm, but unless the temperature drops (as forecast) the snow may melt quickly.
We had Diane's postponed birthday dinner tonight, Veal Zurich, using some of the veal cutlets I got in Omaha last Friday.
Very good, but the cream sauce was a little too thick. I should have added more veal stock at the end, or used a bit less cornstarch.
I tried to make rosti, the Swiss take on hash browns and the classic accompaniment to Veal Zurich, they didn't hold together, not sure if that was not having the potatoes shredded finely enough (I used a mandoline with a julienne blade) or not enough butter, or just not enough practice. We decided we like it better on spaetzle or toast, anyway.
We have an oak tree on our lot that was there when we built the house in 1996. I don't recall it having ever produced many acorns, though. The arborists we've used have never agreed on what type of oak it is, the most common identification is chinkapin.
We planted two chestnut trees in the front yard a few years, they haven't started producing nuts yet, though I've seen catkins in the spring twice. (One of them is not doing as well, and it takes two healthy trees to cross-pollinate and produce nuts, I may wind up replacing that tree.)
We had mac and cheese tonight.
Divinity and nougat are similar, both have sugar and egg whites (nougat has honey while divinity has corn syrup or maple syrup.) They're made differently, so divinity is softer.
She has a website with some of her pies, some with instructions, and more pictures, including some of them after they're baked. There was an Elegant Pie calendar a few years ago but doesn't appear to be one for 2024.
She builds the fancy tops on a round flat surface then freezes it before transferring it to the top of the pie. And she does glue the loose pieces down with a little egg white.
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