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If you're interested in vintage, going back before we were born, there is a guy on YouTube who has a large collection, and he makes dishes from the books. If the book is old enough, he has to research what some of the terms and measurements meant back then. Sometimes the recipe is just a list of ingredients trusting that the cook knew how to cook and put it all together. He also has some old drink books and sometimes he makes cocktails from it. I find it fairly interesting.

If anyone is interested in it, the channel is Glen and Friends.

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On Thursday I was hungry when I came across a flyer for a nearby Italian restaurant, so I ordered a breaded chicken dinner (2 pieces of boneless breast, limp fries and slaw that wasn't worth the effort) and a cheese pizza. I had two dinners, one breakfast and one lunch from it.

Tonight will be rotisserie chicken from the freezer, a salad and either potato or pasta.

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I had a smoked cheddar cheeseburger (tomorrow is National Cheeseburger Day) with grilled onions, fried potatoes and a salad.

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Happy Anniversary, Mike!

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I'm having rotisserie chicken, greens beans and carrots and potato salad.

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I made a batch of Rye/Semolina/Wheat rolls today. I made 9 rolls, each weighing in at 85 grams pre-bake weight.

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I had rotisserie chicken, pasta, green beans and carrot.

I'm guessing the cheese on Joan's great looking pizza is fresh mozzarella.

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I can understand the confusion about white whole wheat. I first saw it at the store (Whole Foods) about 30 years ago and thought it was ordinary white flour pretending to be a whole grain and paid no attention to it (I wasn't doing too much bread baking back then). Some years later, after becoming a fan of King Arthur products, I looked at it more closely and tried it. My first impression was, it's lighter than traditional whole wheat but it's not white. So I think calling it golden wheat flour makes sense.

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Nice looking cake, Joan!

I made a batch of "Healthy Oatmeal Cookies", a recipe I got from the Martha Stewart site (I'm sure Martha has never made them). It's a small recipe (1 cup of flour and 1/2 cup of oats) that uses oil. It calls for a 1/2 cup of whole wheat and a 1/2 cup of AP.
I didn't have any AP but I used a 1/4 cup of rye and 3/4 cup of white whole wheat. I added raisins, mini chocolate chips and a handful of shredded coconut. I overbaked them a little but they're still good.

I noticed that King Arthur has changed the name of their White Whole Wheat to Golden Wheat Flour.

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Those tuna melts look good!

I had a hamburger and an ear of corn.

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I haven't had banana bread in a long time, yours look good, Joan.

I made rye bread (buns) today from the recipe I have posted here. I made the starter last night and pre measured the other dry ingredients so it came together pretty quickly today. I made 9 buns and had one for lunch, fresh out of the oven. They came out pretty good. I haven't made these in a long time.

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I found that very interesting.

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I made a pizza in a pan. The dough was 45% each semolina and white whole wheat, 10% AP (I put in a little AP just because I have some that I want to use up) hydrated at 65%. The topping were a little pepperoni and some bbq pork tenderloin I had in the freezer. A salad rounded it out. I have enough left for tonight's dinner.

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I had some bbq pork tenderloin from the freezer, green beans and carrot, and some pasta.

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Joan, those brownies look good to me.

Mike, wouldn't adding more shortening to the cookie dough actually make them thinner as it would increase the spread? I had an idea for a little while now about baking cookies in a cupcake tin to limit the spread. You'd have to use cupcake papers to ensure they release easily. The other day when I made the chocolate chip cookie dough I ran a test batch doing that. They came out taller and round and, of course, uniform diameter (I used a number 40 disher). I'm not sure I'll do it again, mainly because it's a little more effort but it remains an option.

Yesterday I made a batch of oatmeal raisin cookie dough. I had an open package of mini chocolate chips that was fast approaching it's best by date, so I added those in. Today I baked the cookies and have them ready for the block party tomorrow.

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