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What is "leftover pie"? Do you have a recipe for that? I've never seen it. 🙂

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When I make pumpkin pie, I season it only with cinnamon and vanilla extract.  The flavor is perfect.  There is something in traditional pumpkin pie spice that does not go well with pumpkin.

Yesterday for dinner I made a small pizza with spinach and red bell pepper.  I took a container of turkey stock from the freezer and made soup to go with the pizza.  For the soup I included a little turkey meat (from the freezer), some celery, carrot and chopped kale. The soup came out great.

Unfortunately, it was a single serving.

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Happy Birthday to your husband, Chocomouse!

Italiancook, my fav oatmeal cookie is also the Quaker Oats vanishing recipe. However, I found this recipe on the Martha Stewart site, https://www.marthastewart.com/315977/healthy-oatmeal-cookies which uses part whole wheat and oil, no butter.  I've made it a few times and it's decent is you are looking to cut down on butter.

On Sunday I made a batch of my usual semolina/rye/wheat rolls dough and let it do an overnight rise in the fridge.  Yesterday I baked 6 rolls and held out enough dough to make a pizza for dinner (2 rolls worth of dough).

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I pulled out some turkey from the freezer, had it with gravy, tiny roasted potatoes and spinach.

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Happy and safe 2022 to everybody!

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I took some turkey bones from the freezer and made a small batch of stock. I used some of it for gravy and the rest is portioned and in the freezer.

Tonight I had the last of my leftover ham, mashed potato and gravy, broccoli and carrots. The gravy came out very tasty.

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I did my Christmas dinner on Sunday. I made a boneless spiral sliced ham, mashed potato, asparagus and cranberry sauce. Everything was good. Tonight will be leftovers with a baked sweet potato.

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Mike, your entire menu sounds great!

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On Wednesday I got a beautiful tied pork loin roast from Whole Foods. So that was dinner and lunch for several days.

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I did some baking this week. First, I made Stollen. Then I made oatmeal raisin with mini chocolate chip cookies. Finally I made Pfeffernusse. I have never made pfeffernusse before and don't think I have ever had one either. I used a mashup of 2 recipes. I used the spice blend from Martha Stewart because I had all those on hand. I used the dough recipe and method from Chef John from Food Wishes (he's on Youtube). His recipe does not use any butter but calls for 2 tablespoons of heavy cream or milk. I used half and half. My dough came out hard and dry so I gave it a good splash of additional half and half. Then the dough looked right and was workable. I used the Chef John glaze (lemon juice and powdered sugar) and enrobed the cookies with it.

I'm not sure about them as I have nothing to compare them to. The texture is more bread like than cookie like but they are OK. If I make them again I might use the Martha Stewart recipe which calls for 1 stick of butter.

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Merry Christmas everyone!

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I roasted a salmon filet in a cast iron skillet, had it with mashed potato and asparagus. Have enough left for tomorrows lunch.

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I made Stollen from Peter Reinhart's Baker's Apprentice book. For the dried fruit I used 2 cups of KAF fruitcake blend and soaked it in 3 ounces of rum for a day. The recipe calls for 4 ounces of rum or brandy but I have found the 3 ounces is the right amount. I subbed walnut oil for the butter. It's going to be a day or two before I slice into it but am looking forward to it.

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On Sunday I made some baked boneless chicken breasts. I marinated them in hot sauce infused buttermilk for about an hour and then coated them in a seasoned flour mixture. They came out real tender. Tonight, I used one to make chicken tostadas. I took tortillas and brushed them with a little oil and then baked them at 350 for 10 minutes on each side. Those came out really good. Then I topped them with refried beans, sliced chicken, cheese and then popped them in a 400 degree oven on convection mode.

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I simmered a chicken breast in some mole sauce and had it with rice and cauliflower.

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