[Mike Nolan]

I made 2 loaves of semolina bread tonight. Had some while it was still warm with a little apple butter on it, very good. Just enough spice to linger on the palate a while.

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Joan Simpson wrote:

That's what I call buy one get one free...Lawn mowed down and fertilized too.

That's why they call it "weed 'n feed". 🙂

[Mike Nolan]

We're still in leftover mode here.

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Our Costco store always has goat legs in the freezer, I wonder who buys them.

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Now the forecasted low for Sunday night is 19. Brrrrrr! Might get a frost as early as Saturday morning, too.

And the forecasted high for Halloween is 39, gonna be a cold night for the trick-or-treaters.

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I made peanut butter cookies this evening.

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mac and cheese Monday here

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I've probably made over a half dozen different Challah recipes over the years, though I haven't done your apple cider one yet. (Soon.)

The one I've gone back to the most is Peter Reinhart's recipe in BBA. I recently bought Maggie Glezer's book, A Blessing of Bread, though I haven't tried any of her recipes yet.

I did a chocolate Challah once, I forget whose recipe I used for that one, though, and I'm not sure if I saved it anywhere. (I've got stacks of recipes I've printed over the years off the Internet.) It made interesting French Toast.

Get Violet a good set of gloves. I like the barbecue ones better than the welder ones.

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We had salads with lettuce from the Aerogarden, some small tomatoes from the garden and left over eye of round.

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With a forecasted low of 24 for next Sunday and a high of 38, covering plants sounds futile here.

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The forecast keeps getting more extreme. Now they're calling for 86 tomorrow but a high of 38 next Sunday and a low of 24!

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Going to Maine for a Reuben is like going to North Dakota for a lobster roll. 🙂

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I think my bagel dough was a little too dry, when I used the 'roll around your hand' method they didn't all seal together, one or two of them sort of came apart, one looked like a bagel schnecken.

I'll probably increase the water next time around.

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I made a batch of bagel dough (Hamelman's recipe) this evening, it will sit overnight in the fridge, in the morning I'll let it warm up a little, then shape, boil and bake the bagels.

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I figure I'm doing good if I can get 3 years from a laptop, but I do use it for 6 or more hours most days.

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