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  • in reply to: What are You Cooking the Week of October 13, 2019? #18676
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      Have fun at the NY Sheep and wool chocomouse. Yesterday I had baked chicken thigh with leftover Afghan pumpkin with yogurt sauce. The pumpkin was much better warmed up, then it had been the first time around, probably the tomato sauce improved after being refrigerated.

      I am going to do a colonscopy next week. I have two days without whole grains, or raw vegetables or raw fruit in preparation as well as a day of essentially fasting. Its been so long since I first started eating whole wheat flour and brown rice that this is going to be disconcerting. I do cook with white flour, and eat white rice but thats an occasional treat and mainly when eating out.

      in reply to: Daily Quiz for October 16, 2019 #18672
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        Got it. I don't remember trying Amaranth. Has anyone tried grain sorghum?

        in reply to: Daily Quiz for October 15, 2019 #18671
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          Got it. I love Canadian bacon.

          in reply to: Daily Quiz for October 14, 2019 #18670
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            I didn't get this either

            in reply to: What are You Baking the Week of October 13, 2019? #18669
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              On Monday I did English Scones from the Cook's Illustrated recipe. A friend wanted to try the English custom of scones and clotted cream. She had found a recipe for making clotted cream by baking cream in the oven for hours, and I had agreed to make scones to accompany them. Monday Columbus day was a perfectly cool day just right for cooking and a Federal Holiday. So she made the cream and I did more or less this recipe
              https://www.tasteasyougo.com/2015/05/british-style-currant-scones-recipe.html

              I found this was too soft with white flour and I made drop scones instead of cut scones. These were baked at 350 degrees for 20 minutes instead of 425 degrees for 10 minutes. Between one thing and another these were rather flat. But they were very tasty and the clotted cream was great.

              Today I am making this recipe,.
              https://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/cheese-filled-sweet-braid-recipe

              Comparing this recipe with the fake braid in the 200th Anniversary Cookbook, this recipe has half the amount of dough and the same amount of filling. I have one braid with notably less filling than the other, I hope the braid with two much filling turns out. The dough was very soft, I should have added more flour. I ended up rolling it out with extra flour between two sheets of wax paper. I am going to let it rise overnight and bake tomorrow morning. I hope it turns out well.

              in reply to: What are You Baking the Week of October 6, 2019? #18608
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                the oatmeal apricot bars are very good. A little too sweet, next time I'll change 2/3 cup brown sugar to 1/2 cup brown sugar. Would it be too crunchy with regular oatmeal?

                in reply to: Primal cuts of beef #18602
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                  Do you eat enough beef to make it worthwhile? I find it handy to cut up my own chicken but beef is expensive enough I only buy one cut at a time. I think the most I bought was a whole eye of round roast. I've bought chuck roasts on sale and put them in the freezer too but thats already cut up.

                  in reply to: No quiz for Friday and probably not for next day or two #18601
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                    Glad that you are back home. Have a speedy recovery.

                    in reply to: What are You Baking the Week of October 6, 2019? #18598
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                      I am in the middle of making the oatmeal-apricot bars for the first time. I had to go out and buy the quick oats as I normally only keep the regular type on hand.

                      in reply to: What are You Cooking the Week of October 6, 2019? #18591
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                        I am trying to do a new recipe. Afghan pumpkin with tomato sauce and yogurt.
                        I've gotten the pumpkin cooked, it was a 4lb cheese pumpkin cut into cubes but I haven't made the accompaning tomato sauce or yogurt sauce.

                        https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/12893-afghan-style-pumpkin-with-yogurt-sauce

                        in reply to: No quiz for Friday and probably not for next day or two #18590
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                          Best of luck with your surgery. I hope everything goes well.

                          in reply to: What are you Baking the week of September 29, 2019? #18560
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                            Yesterday I did Fresh apple scones with honey and buttermilk and Cox Orange Pippin apples, and did KAF apple challah, using all whole wheat flour, no honey and 1 1/2 teaspoons of cinnamon. I used two Winesap apples. Both came out very well. The apple challah was baked in a cloche and was very high and light. The apple challah had a decided cinnamon flavor.
                            I was baking both in honor of Rosh Hoshonah which is my favorite Jewish Celebration -- how can anyone not like a festival which celebrates with apples and honey.

                            in reply to: No quiz for Friday and probably not for next day or two #18545
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                              I hope you feel better soon.

                              in reply to: Daily Quiz for October 1, 2019 #18515
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                                I missed that. I know that most people consider tomatoes, and squash as vegetables under the "eat your vegtables." category.

                                in reply to: In Praise of the Tuna Noodle Casserole #18493
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                                  Some recipes are introductory recipes, they lure the novice in with a good story and a detailed explanation and a promise of making something comforting and familiar. I don't really like tuna-noodle casserole, but my mother used to make a tuna-rice casserole that was very good. Nothing that she would make for guests but soothing and tasty.

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