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Over the years I have known a few people who got a bread machine, used it once or twice, then never again. Usually because the bread didn't turn out as expected. I suspect it's because of incorrect measuring of the flour as they don't understand flour compacts easily and then they end up with a dense loaf.

While many people give up on it, there are those who stay with it. I started my bread making with a bread machine and the manual was very informative and helped me correct my mistakes. At the start of the pandemic, the guy across the street, a family of four, bought a bread machine, 50 pound bag of flour and 2 pounds of yeast. He had to buy 2 pounds because that's the way it came. He told me he loves the bread machine and he's going through the flour pretty fast.

Hopefully flour and other baking supplies won't be in such short supply going forward because of those who have lost interest.

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I roasted a couple of chickens, I quartered and froze one for later. Shortly after I put them in the oven, we had a power outage. After a little while I started to prep the bbq and then the power came back on. Got lucky with that.

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Chocomouse, how does one go about ordering your maple syrup, do you have a website for it?

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I made a stir fry with leftover pork, mushrooms, zucchini, carrot and peppers. Had it with wild/brown rice blend.

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That does sound like fun, Aaron.

Yesterday I made a batch of my sandwich buns. A little while back I was watching a Youtube video and the guy said not to add the salt right away as it interferes with autolyse. I've always added everything in right at the beginning so I don't forget. But the last several times I did not add the salt and oil until the 20 minute rest was over. It really makes a difference with the kneading of this dough. Before there would usually be a portion of dough sticking to the bottom of the bowl and I would have to coax it to incorporate with the rest of it. But now that problem has gone away.

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Well, that's why the chickens can't fly.

What about buffalo wings? I've seen many a buffalo on TV and never saw any that had wings. If they did have wings, those things would be huge!

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"The first of these is AP flour, followed by barley malt (twice–an error?), and cane sugar."

No, I don't think it's an error. First off, it contains flour that consists of flour and barley malt. Then, they put in more barley malt. The flour by itself doesn't contain enough barley malt so they give it an added shot(s).

How to store, if it were me it would depend how fast I think I would use it. If it's gonna be around for a while I don't see how freezing it would hurt.

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I made some pork chops and Italian sausage on the grill, I have enough for several days now.

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That looks delicious, Mike, cherry pie is one of my (many) favs, enjoy!

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Happy Birthday, Mike, hope you have a great day!

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Leftovers, chicken patty with mac and cheese and a salad. A slice of blueberry pie for dessert.

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I had a chicken patty with mac & cheese, green beans and leftover mushroom gravy.

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Yesterday I baked a batch of sandwich buns. Today I made a blueberry pie. I used the oil crust recipe from Jenny Can Cook, 2 1/2 cups AP, 2 tsp sugar, pinch of salt and a half cup each of oil and milk. I did sub out 1/2 cup of the AP with 1/4 each of almond flour and KA whole wheat pastry flour. That made the dough a little harder to handle but it didn't present any real problem. I have to wait for it cool down now, I'll probably have a slice later.

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Joan, I find that ground chicken can dry out since I'm a little paranoid about it and cook it until it's very well done. So I got the idea about mixing in bread crumbs with a liquid much like you would do for meatballs. This made the chicken mixture pretty soft but they cooked up nice. I sprinkled a little paprika on the top to give them a little color. I'll show a picture of one.

Yesterday I had one of my chicken patties and made a mushroom gravy and had it with rice. Also a large salad.

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I took some ground chicken, mixed it with bread crumbs that I hydrated with chicken broth, an egg, seasoned it with a little celery seed, onion and garlic powder and paprika. Then I formed it into patties and baked them. I overdid the chicken broth a little and it could have used a little salt but overall I am happy with it. I ate one on a bun and had a salad with it.

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