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I did green split pea soup in the crockpot. This unfortunately has turned out brown instead of green, does anyone know what is likely to cause this? I don't know for certain but it was likely overcooked. I started cooking this on high for a couple of hours, then I threw in some sweet potato and cooked it on low overnight. I didn't want to overcook the sweet potato so I added it last.

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Happy Birthday Mike! I hope you have a really great birthday. Thanks for everything.

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It was wonderfully cool yesterday so I had cheese pizza and two batches of blueberry cornbread and chicken lentil soup. I gave one of the blueberry cornbread away and am eating the other one.

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I did Blueberry cornbread -- basically a Yankee Cornbread with a cup of blueberries added. It has quite a nice texture surprisingly better than the all whole wheat blueberry bread. No slightly damp mushy spots near the blueberries. I was short of buttermilk so I used a mixture of buttermilk and yogurt. I wonder if that was responsible for the nice texture or whether it was the cornmeal.

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I had no idea, and guessed incorrectly.

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I messed this up.

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I knew this!

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On Wednesday morning which was reasonably cool I did a double recipe of pumpkin cranberry quick bread, baked in a 9x13 pan which took about half an hour to cook. I thought that it would bake in 20 minutes since it is relatively thin but it needed the extra time. I also did a cheese pizza, my regular recipe to go with a slightly too hot vegetable chickpea chili. Calling it a chili is a far stretch but it does call for a tablespoon of chili powder. The other ingredients are chickpeas, onions, eggplant, sweet red pepper, and tomatoes. It had a chipolte pepper and garlic for seasoning but there were so many other ingredients and all of them fairly bland that I used one tablespoon of smoked paprika as well as 1 tablespoon of Americano chili. That was just a little too spicy.
Blueberries were on sale this week so there are blueberry scones in my future. Possibly blueberry zucchini bread too.

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I guessed and was completely wrong.

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I got it. I got out a calculator app and figured it out twice. The first time I inverted all the numbers.

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I have a very old bottle of tarragon vinegar I store in the refrigerator, but I don't refrigerate cider vinegar or white vinegar

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I did an Apple Pizza on Sunday. My normal whole wheat crust but a little thinner than normal as I baked it in a larger frying pan.

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I got it. Its a good thing there were only two choices.

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I missed it.

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I've used a teaspoon to drop batter into a baked donut pan. Have to do it in three or four different places and smooth it out later.

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