[Mike Nolan]

Aaron, this is kind of an odd question, but if I make a challah recipe can I sell it as Challah even though I'm not Jewish?

[Mike Nolan]

I think we're having some chili, possibly with fried cheese sandwiches. A combination we haven't tried before, but the chili is enough like tomato soup that it should pair well. (We used to take some chili to my wife's mother before she passed, she always called it 'tomato soup'.)

[Mike Nolan]

Great. I wonder how a butter-flavored oil would work?

[Mike Nolan]

The reason I went to a compound butter for cinnamon rolls is that you spread it on and very little leaks out.

I don't know if it is possible to do something similar with a little neutral oil instead of butter. Might be worth a small experiment. Sometimes I make a small batch of cinnamon rolls, just 4 rolls in the batch.

[Mike Nolan]

Aside from muffin tins, I do not use non-stick pans in the oven and not very often on the stove. (My muffin tins are ceramic coated and so far the coating seems pretty secure.)

[Mike Nolan]

I had a sandwich and some bean salad, Diane had oatmeal.

[Mike Nolan]

If you want thicker pumpkin/sweet potato pie filling, add another egg yolk. You can add the egg white or not, it doesn't seem to matter much.

[Mike Nolan]

It should work just fine, that's what I always buy.

I stopped making pumpkin pie several years ago, now I do sweet potato pie. Pretty much the same recipe and spice profile but without the taste of pumpkin, which I'm not fond of.

[Mike Nolan]

I know some bakeries do their cinnamon rolls on silpats, but personally I find if I slather butter and brown sugar on the pan before putting the rolls on it, you get a nice butterscotch glaze on the bottoms, making them more like sticky rolls.

If you decant the entire pan onto another sheet pan while it's still warm, most of the glaze will come out.

[Mike Nolan]

I think it'll be another week before we get the fruit fly population under control enough for me to do much baking, and I will need to get some apple cider, but it's the season for it.

The apple orchard I usually get winesaps at doesn't have any again this year. They suffered a lot of damage to their trees in a 2022 storm and the winesaps need at least another year. There might be some in Nebraska City, but that's 50 miles away and their u-pick hours are limited to weekends.

[Mike Nolan]

Yeah, I tried to put up a 'down for maintenance' intercept, that wasn't working right, either. :sigh:

[Mike Nolan]

We had tuna fish in tomatoes today.

[Mike Nolan]

We had chili for supper.

[Mike Nolan]

Picked too early?

Do they ripen bananas in ethylene gas? Maybe these didn't get the gas.

[Mike Nolan]

I may have to try your sourdough whole wheat crackers some time. Maybe Diane will eat them.

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