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Last Maryland Sheep and Wool was very wet and muddy and cold. I bought a little of this and a little of that. My main purchase was a book "Sock Architecture" by Laura Neal, but I also bought a skein of yarn and some hand cream. Oh and I stopped by Chocomouse's booth to get some Vermont maple syrup.

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@Aaron
I've seen convertible mittens that have a glove underneath, not bare fingers. Maybe you will have to look for one of those. Another idea is to layer and layer; thin gloves, thick mittens, and then waterproof over mittens. I've see skiers with mittens that look like cloth bags.

@Kimbob
I've had friends in Virginia who tried knitting Icelandic Lopi sweaters and could only think of wearing them a couple weeks a year

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Aaron, where do you live? A wool mitten should keep your hands warm even when wet. I can't verify this in person as I normally use wool gloves in the winter and just come back in when my hands get cold.
I'll look up Bernie Sanders' mittens and see if there is a pattern available or more information. Thanks

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I made salmon patties with canned salmon from a Laura Brody recipe. These were supposed to be baked to cut down on fat, but I fried mine instead as I didn't want to use a whole oven. I ate two for lunch, and will be warming up the others for sandwiches during the week.
I also baked a spinach pizza and will be eating this too over the course of a week. Makes a very good lukewarm supper. This is heated gently in a cast iron frying pan with lid, which doesn't heat the kitchen a lot.
The farmer's market had nice cherries and tomatoes. Beautiful color, tasty and doesn't require cooking. Has anyone eaten a "sugar cube" cantelope? It looked so cute I had to buy it. Also it doesn't need to be cooked.

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I did mini scones on July 6. I'm not being very adventurous but these always turn out so well.

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I did another batch of mini scones. I was baking around 9:00 am just before it got too hot.
High is suppose to be 85 or 86 today, about the same tomorrow. It was hotter yesterday.

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Its been horribly hot here too. I managed to bake a batch of scones yesterday by starting at 7:00 am, but wasn't up early enough to repeat that performance today. I'll try getting up early tomorrow. I'm still staying with my father so don't have all my appliances. I found baking in a slow cooker works well in hot weather especially since I would have it cooking unattended in the kitchen while I hid in the basement. I was doing all whole wheat then so didn't worry about it not browning.
Does anyone have experience with fast yeast breads? A King Arthur ad boasted of fast foccaccio, that was mixed and baked in record time. The closest I've had is with batter yeast breads that only really had two risings before baking.

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I made KAF Breakfast Cookies yesterday but use Bob's Red Mill Gluten Free Flour for all the flour and the Hi-Fiber Maize Flour. I used walnuts and cranberries and oatmeal for my add-ins and also added 1/2 tsp baking soda and 1/2 tsp baking powder. It made 21 very large cookies. I once tried to make smaller cookies but they came out too hard and dry. I had the Gluten Free Flour left over from another recipe, and this allowed me to give the cookies to a friend who is avoiding gluten.
I ate two of the cookies myself and thought they had turned out well.

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I'm glad that the checkup went so well! I hope the physical therapy helps him regain full control of his mouth and cheeks.

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I did what is my basic flat bread only with all white flour and 3/4 cup of cubed cheddar cheese mixed in. It wasn't as pretty with white cheddar and white flour as it would have been with white cheddar and whole wheat flour. It was tasty, possibly too tasty. I ate a little over half of it over the morning and ended with indigestion from too much cheese. When I was younger I could have eaten the whole thing in one sitting with no problems.

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I'm glad the cat is litterbox trained, that make things a lot easier. Does the cat hide when you move around?

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Do you think mixing cream cheese and maple syrup would make a good spread?

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That all sounds very good especially the orange cinnamon swirl.

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I hope everything goes well.

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In an effort to have something to eat with strawberries, and having milk to use up, I made a fairly basic muffin batter and poured it into a 9 inch cast iron frying pan. All the traditional recipes for muffins say -- Do not over mix -- batter will be lumpy. Well I didn't overmix and had a fairly flat bread with some lumps of unmixed flour in the finished product. Next time I will mix it a little more anyway.
This was flatter than I expected, as I normally use a 8 inch frying pan for similar recipes but it tasted nicely by itself, and went wonderful with strawberries. I poured maple syrup on my slice -- my father thought that was overdoing the sugar -- but I ignored him as maple syrup is good on many things. There was a 1/2 cup of apricot jam baked in the muffins so the maple syrup wasn't necessary.

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