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BakerAunt;
Have you eaten the Porridge as Porridge? What was that like?
Its nearly Xmas and I'm not ready to do any seasonal baking. I'm thinking about maple oatmeal bread, and pumpkin biscotti and apple bread which seem more like November than December recipes.
I did cheese pizza yesterday.

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Yesterday I had a Parsnip-Carrot soup which I had made the day before. It was a fairly simple recipe and I ran through a food mill twice to get a creamy texture. It was wonderful. I was surprise as it had very few spices, and looked so bland and unappetizing with whole pieces of white potato and white onion and white parsnips, there were some pieces of orange carrot but that didn't dispell the overall blandness. But it came out a pleasant light orange out of the food mill and it had a wonderful slightly sweet taste. I ate it with my basic cheese pizza.

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I do an overnight soak of beans before cooking them. I am trying to reduce the amount of salt, so I don't add salt to the water.
Did you have hot dogs in your black bean soup? That used to be de Rigor when I had it in cafeterias.

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BakerAunt;
I remember the Butternut Squash, Kale and Cheese tart from last year and the original recipe too. Did you use red onions? Thats a special purchase for me, I normally have only yellow onions on hand. I don't have good luck prebaking crusts, I find it very messy and apt to break.

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Cwcdesign;
The Maple Oat soda bread sounds great especially the glaze.

All the cinnamon rolls are making me envious.

I did a double patch of Pumpkin-maple-ginger cornbread to give away. It came out well and I hope everyone liked it.

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I did pumpkin cornbread with maple syrup, and flavored with dried ginger and candied ginger. Its a combination of cornbread and gingerbread with maple syrup instead of molasses. I was afraid it would be too bland but it is very tasty with pronounced ginger flavor and just a hint of sweetness. I'll try making a double batch tomorrow to give away.

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Chocomouse, I used your maple syrup for cooking a butternut squash yesterday. Delicious!

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I roasted a chicken for Thanksgiving, with rice stuffing. Mushroom giblet gravy, cranberry sauce, and butternut squash with onions and maple syrup. In order to deal with the important part of Thanksgiving first, I started the day by baking and eating individual apple crisp before cooking anything else. I was planning on several other dishes including broccoli, and gingered chickpeas, and pickles but luckily ran out of energy before starting them. As it is I am going to be eating leftovers for days. The idea of baking a full Thanksgiving meal for one overtook my common sense. I was contemplating a turkey but realizes before that idea got fixed into my head that I don't have enough spare freezer space. The extra bags of flour is crowding my freezer.

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I did three individual apple crisps which were just great. Its been a long time since I made these. Ate one yesterday warm with ice cream, and another one for breakfast today.
I was thinking of making more pumpkin cornbread but didn't have time.

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I did a Cornmeal Herb Focaccio on Wednesday. This is the same recipe that I did last year for Thanksgiving. It has 1 cup cornmeal and 3 cups All Purpose Flour. There is 1 tsp of Rosemary, 2 tsp sage and 1/2 tsp thyme. It came out very well, light and airy. I feel a little bad that I couldn't make this out of whole wheat flour, but when I tried with whole wheat flour three years ago it was very heavy and flat.

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The Chocolate Cherry scones were great. Maple walnut does sound good, maybe I can try that next. Made the scones last night. I heard back from my friend, she really like the cheddar cheese bread.

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chocomouse, thanks for the information. I'll get a new funnel and do this on one of the cold winter days. I have a candy thermometer so I can get the temperature correct.

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I did whole wheat cheddar cheese bread yesterday. It came out fairly well I think. I made it as a present but I won't hear back from the receipent until later. I forget how much time it takes to knead a loaf of bread when I'm not doing it.
I'm going to make some scones, I think chocolate cherry is what I am want right now.

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Chocomouse;
I've got instructions from your husband on sealing maple syrup in glass canning jars. I'm going to try this sometime after the holidays. It looks very easy. Soak and boil the jars, heat the maple syrup very hot using a candy thermometer to make sure it gets the correct temperature, then put the syrup in the jars, and put a lid on them. This doesn't need to be heat in a hot water bath to seal. Have you tried it? Should I buy a metal canning funnel? My current one is plastic. I would probably use wide mouth pint jars.

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I did some pumpkin biscotti. I think I might have to make a double batch next time, they were disappearing fast until I put the survivors into the freezer.

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