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Joan, all your breads look wonderful. You're making me hungry for raisin toast!

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I don't recall doing a pumpkin shaped loaf but if I did, I would have made it in a bundt pan. My crafting skills aren't strong enough to make a boule and then put string on it and expect it to come out as envisioned.

I did make a bread in a lamb mold once for Easter. It came out pretty good; not perfect.

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I'm trying to figure out why the recipe calls for the coffee granules. Does the coffee flavor compliment the spices? I have a jar of decaf instant coffee so I'll find out soon.

I normally don't have sour cream on hand, I was thinking about using Greek yogurt but I bought a container of light sour cream as I don't want to make too many changes in my first attempt at this recipe. I find it interesting that it doesn't call for any oil or butter, the fat comes from the sour cream, so that also influenced my decision to get some.

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I don't know whether to call them tacos or quesadillas, but I cooked some sweet pepper, onion and ground beef, seasoned with taco seasoning and put it on flour tortillas with Mexican style cheese. Had it with brussels sprouts and boiled potatoes.

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I had a piece of rotisserie chicken from the freezer, roasted potatoes and green beans with carrots and mushrooms.

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Let's start with October as this is an easy recipe. It's from the book Muffins, Sixty Sweet and Savory Recipes by Elizabeth Alston, copyright 1985. I don't remember buying this book and have never made anything from it. Here it is.

SPICY SOUR CREAM RAISIN MUFFINS

2 large EGGS
½ cup SOUR CREAM
½ cup MILK
2 tablespoons INSTANT COFFEE granules
3/4 cup RAISINS
1 ½ cups ALL PURPOSE FLOUR
½ cups plus 1 tablespoon OLD FASHIONED OATS
½ cup GRANULATED SUGAR
2 teaspoons BAKING POWDER
½ teaspoon each ground CLOVES, CINNAMON, ALLSPICE

Preheat oven to 375f, grease muffin tins or use paper liners. Yield is 12 muffins.

Put Eggs, Sour Cream, Milk and Instant Coffee in a bowl, whisk until well blended, stir in Raisins and let stand about 5 minutes.

In a large bowl, mix Flour, ½ cup Oats, Sugar, Baking Powder and Spices. Add the liquid mixture to the dry ingredients and fold with a spatula just until the dry ingredients are moistened.

Scoop batter into muffin tins, sprinkle with the 1 tablespoon Oats. Bake 20 - 23 minutes or until browned and springy to the touch in the center. Serve immediately.

I plan to make this soon and will report back. I'll also drop this recipe in the recipe forum.

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How is this supposed to work? Once we make a dish, do we share the recipe, post pics of it or just report that we made it and give our review?

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I made chicken quesadillas and a salad.

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I made a stir fry consisting of mushrooms, carrot, shredded brussels sprouts, broccoli, corn and cherry tomatoes. Had it with brown rice and grocery store fried chicken.

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Glen always licks the mixing spoon.

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On Tuesday I made one pot mac and cheese (recipe from The Hill Billy Kitchen on youtube). Yesterday my neighbor threw some, I mean gave me some tomatoes so I made sauce with them and had roasted pork tenderloin from the freezer and brussels sprouts and leftover mac and cheese. Tonight I will have some more pork tenderloin, pasta with tomato sauce and a veg to be determined.

Mike, that's terrible about what happened to your cat, some people can be so cruel.

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Joan and CWCdesign, I'm glad to hear that you're safe and have power back. Modern society is so dependent on electricity that it's become a necessity of life.

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Hope you stay out of harms way, Joan.

I'm going to have leftover pork loin, broccoli and leftover potato.

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I'd be interested too.

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Maybe Contact Rival about it. You can even send them pictures.

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