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I always reduce salt in bread recipes by 1/3 to a half. It works. The prepared food industry as well as restaurants are salt crazy, which is why I make most of my meals from scratch. I remember watching some of the food shows, especially Emeril, who would add salt with almost every ingredient he was adding to any dish. BAM, too much salt sucker!

Swanson makes an no salt added chicken cooking stock that has only 130mg of sodium per cup, which really isn't bad.

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Today I made a pork rib roast. I seasoned it with a little kosher salt, garlic powder, black pepper and maple sugar. It came out great. Also made fresh green beans, diced roasted sweet potato and noodles.

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That star bread looks fabulous cwcdesign!

Yesterday I made a lemon cake using Arrowhead Mills vanilla cake mix. I subbed part of the milk with fresh lemon juice and lemon zest. I used a little food color to make it festive for the Christmas season, I made the cake red and the frosting green.

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I baked a stollen today that I will be taking to my neighbor on New Years eve. I changed up the seasonings a little, I hope it tastes OK. I'm also planning on topping it with a almond flavored glaze instead of powdered sugar. I was looking at stollen pics on another site and someone had a stollen with a glaze and pecans on it. Might try that.

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Skeptic, I tried a new bread recipe earlier this year and that's the one I've been baking all year! lol

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I baked sandwich buns today.

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For Christmas dinner I made a strip roast. Trimmed and salted it 3 days before, roasted it at 450 for 20 minutes, then reduced the heat to 300. Roasted it until the internal temp hit 125, removed it from the oven and covered with foil while the rest of dinner was being prepared, the temp rose to 141. It was tender and perfectly done.

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Merry Christmas to all!

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Italiancook, thank you. That's just regular powdered sugar.

I plan on making another Stollen next week, New Years eve is my neighbors Golden Retriever 17th birthday and I am invited. He is a rescue dog that they got when he was 9 after their 8 year old Golden died.

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Tonight I baked oatmeal cookies with raisins, chocolate chips and walnuts.

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Today I baked almond macaroons.

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Today I baked the Stollen, from The Bread Baker's Apprentice. I subbed honey for the sugar and subbed part of the butter with avocado oil.

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I am not an expert on shortbread, but to my way of thinking, anything that involves flour, sugar and butter is begging for vanilla.

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On Monday I baked a loaf of braided bread, 50% whole wheat. Wednesday I baked a batch of Acorn cookies from a recipe posted here. I also have dried fruit (KAF fruitcake blend and raisins) soaking in rum that I will use in Stollen.

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Happy Birthday Mrs. Nolan, I hope you enjoyed your cake!

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