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I had a strip steak that I cooked on my George Foreman grill, brown rice and cauliflower and carrots.

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Thank you, Joan. I've been enjoying them!

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I made Healthy Oatmeal Cookies from Martha Stewart. The cookies use veggie oil (I used walnut oil) and no butter. I added about 1/4 cup of almond flour to it, used the KAF fruitcake fruit blend in place of raisins and 1/2 tsp of maple flavor in place of the vanilla. I also added 1/2 tsp of cinnamon and chopped up a 3 ounce dark chocolate bar for it. I baked them on my new 2/3 sheet pan. They baked up nice and were done in 16 minutes. The recipe yielded 19 cookies.

The taste and texture are OK, not as good as a butter or shortening cookie but are perfectly acceptable to me.

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That's what I do, BakerAunt, that's what I do, lol.

The pan gives me more than an inch front and back and about an inch on the sides, so I wouldn't want to go any bigger.

That's an excellent idea for the pie crust, Mike, I wish I had known about that sooner. I'm gonna give it a try next time.

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The cookies baked up perfectly, the pan did not warp in the oven.

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My Winware 16x22 pan arrived yesterday (the one from Mike's link). It appears solid and well made. I put it on the kitchen scale and it comes in at 2 pounds, 4 3/8 ounces. It feels like my Nordic Ware half sheets. I did a little research and found the Nordic Ware is 20 gauge and I have had no issues with them with baking performance (cookies) nor with warping. I found a healthy oatmeal cookie on Martha Stewart's site yesterday (it uses oil, not butter) and intend to make it today. I will bake them on my new Winware pan and report back.

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I have a 16x24 pan that came with a rack. It fits so tight in the oven I've never used it, I'm afraid that it will expand as it heats up and fuse itself to the oven walls. I looked at the pan in Mike's link for the 16x22 pan and decided to get it.

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I usually do pretty good with parsley. Once it gets established it's a pretty tough plant. Maybe it likes the climate here.

With the up and down weather we've been having I was concerned that my peaches might not make it. I took a look at it today, it's loaded with small fruit. Of course it has a ways to go yet. The fruit never get too big, the tree was started from a pit from a store bought peach by my neighbor's father in law. But I still enjoy having the tree. The peaches always get stolen by the local wildlife.

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I made a hamburger, steamed red cabbage and mashed potato.

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Happy Birthday, S Wirth!

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My Burpee plants arrived last week and I put them in my planters yesterday. I have 3 tomatoes, Early Girl, Fourth of July and something called Fresh Salsa. One jalapeno and one sweet pepper. Two each of basil and parsley. It doesn't sound like a lot but if it all produces it should be enough.

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Tonight was a simple dinner, a hamburger from the freezer, instant mashed potato and fresh broccoli.

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I made meatballs yesterday. So yesterday I had spaghetti and a meatball with broccoli. Today I had bow tie pasta with a meatball and mushroom sauce and fresh asparagus.

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I wanted something easy after doing yardwork so I pulled some chicken stock and a chicken thigh from the freezer and made chicken veggie soup and had it with a roasted pork sandwich.

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I made a batch of my buns this evening but withheld 2 buns worth of dough to make a cast iron pan pizza for dinner.

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