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I'm so gonna try that 'almost no kneed bread' recipe. Thanks Grandma.
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tonight some leftovers and a "special request"
Daughter, SIL and grand kids are coming for Chili, cheesy corn bread and the special request is my Cheesy baked Mac-N-Cheese. (with the "secret" ingredient..dry mustard)
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Potatoes and onions gratin.
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Golden, Spot on! I would add - don’t add too much flour.

I’m at the beach in NC. Nice weather. Ate at my favorite local seafood restaurant last evening. Doing some cleaning out today. Because of the storm special trash pickup on Monday. Anything other than hazardous waste, paint.
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Chicken stew - mmmm good!

Bread is not hard to make. Once you get the feel of it and are comfortable with a basic bread recipe you can play around with making sweet breads cinnamon buns, rye bread etc. Somewhere I have a recipe for very light rolls which require little kneading and are fool proof. Delicious!!! I never used anything special - just regular pans.
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Grandma, thank you for the tip. The dutch oven is a key to good bread. Thanks again!
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Shell38314.
Please don't bother with a breadmaker.
I have been baking the "Overnight Almost No Knead Bread" for a while and it is so easy. I call it Stupid Simple.
ANYONE can make a professional looking, great tasting bread with hardly any effort.
I could send the recipe if you like PM me or look up Almost no knead bread recipes.
Basics mix flour, yeast, salt and water in a bowl. Cover and let sit on the counter 8 to 18 hours.
Turn it out onto the counter turn it over a bit just to deflate it.
Form it into a loose ball (it is rather wet and sticky) cover for 1 1/2 hours.
Place a Dutch oven in the oven and heat, when it gets to temp dust the bread with flour make a few slashes in it then plop it into the Dutch Oven cover and bake, remove cover and bake a bit longer.
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smesque...berries on the left over cheesecake, if there is such a thing.

Dinner tonight.
I made lasagna and a fresh boule.
I had thawed out what I thought was pasta sauce only to find out that it is Chili so I had to make sauce for the lasagna.
When I told my daughter about this she said..ok when are we having chili.
So tomorrow night
Chili, jalapeno cheddar cornbread and eldest grand son has requested my baked Mac-N-Cheese so that is the menu for tomorrow.
And I have enough left over lasagna for later in the week a meal or two. I may freeze half of it for next week as well.
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Isthisreal- I thought of strawberries after they ate it.
Maybe the thought counts too.😀
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Smesque, fresh stawberries or raspberries on the cheesecake, now it's a healthy choice😁
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I got them all to eat chef salads for dinner yay!
But.... cheesecake for desert
Gotta pick you battles :)
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Dinner out!! No cleaning up the kitchen.
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Shell, I see breadmakers at Goodwill all the time, dirt cheap! I used to use mine all the time, even bought the ingredients at the local health food store. The last few times I used it my yeast was old.. it was like a doorstop. OR maybe it is just old and tired.. like I feel a lot...
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Try 'The PizzaExpress Cook Book' by Peter Boizot, published donkey's years ago but still available secondhand on Amazon. It's written for amateurs and explains how to get round the limitations of a domestic oven.
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Baked pork chops, 4 cheese Rice Roni, fresh slice tomatos and boiled summer squash. Peanut M&M for dessert!




All this talk about baking bread makes me want fresh bread! We always have the frozen bread for holiday meals. Hmm Maybe I will ask my SO for a bread maker for Christmas.
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Becky,

Nothing smells better than bread baking. Your house must smell heavenly!
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I make bread two or three times a week. I usually make it on nights when I can’t sleep. I make 4 loaves at a time. I freeze some, and give away any that isn’t needed at my house. I don’t get into the no gluten cooking. I have no one in my family who does the gluten free diet.

i like to bake on nights when I can’t sleep.

Dinner was chicken and dumplings, mashed potatoes, green beans, sliced tomatoes.
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cwille,
That’s what I like, the thin crust. I don’t like thick crust. If I did a pizza I would want a thin crust. I’m with you on the gluten free stuff. If it’s a medical reason I get it, otherwise no.

My daughter tried that cauliflower crust recipe. I guess it’s good. Like you say, trends come and go. She also does the zucchini noodles. For a college kid she eats healthy! I bought her a crockpot to cook in while she is in school. She does soups. So all she makes is a salad to go with it and it’s easy for her.
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I've never done gluten free, nobody I know is gluten intolerant and I can't be bothered catering to those who are just following a fad. Regular wheat pizza dough is easy, I haven't found a thin crust recipe I like though.
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cwille,

I know quite a few people who are gluten free these days. That would be a pain to cook gluten free.

I know even some of the pizza places near me offer gluten free dough. Wonder what it taste like. I can’t eat meat on pizza anymore. Lost my taste for pepperoni and stuff like that. I like veggie pizza only now.

Have you done pizza dough? Would that be hard to do?

I like cooking, just don’t eat a lot. Plus I get tired of cooking at times.
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My mom’s old neighbor lived alone and made fabulous bread. She gave most of it away. My parents loved her bread. Give it to your neighbors, cwille.
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I used to like baking bread, one of the cookbooks I'm keeping is A World of Breads by Dolores Casella and contains over 600 recipes for everything from baking powder biscuits and muffins to sourdoughs and croissants. The problem with baking bread is that it results in eating bread, and if you are single you'll be eating lots and lots more bread than you should.
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Not with a bread-maker it's not. Some people find the kneading and knocking back therapeutic, but for those of us who can't be arsed with it a bread-maker is the answer. Chuck in your ingredients, switch it on, and then you still have the choice between shaping your own loaves and feeling all domestic goddessy about it, or you can let it do the baking too (only your loaf will have an annoying hole in its bottom where the paddle comes to rest). Either way, the big plus is you know exactly what's in your bread and it's still a lot quicker than going to the store.
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Grandma,

Homemade bread is a labor of love. I admire you. I only did it once! Haha

I have done quick breads. They are really more like cake!
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Polar,

I love hot tea when I am sick. Any kind, herbal or black tea.
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Shell,

Peanut butter and chili. See why he’s your ex! Hahaha
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Thanks, Dizzy

I’m run down and then the immune system gets weak. Still, I haven’t been sick with a cold in years! Well, a cold is not serious so I will be back to normal soon.

I like Paella. It’s sort of like our jambalaya. Well, Louisiana is French and Spanish. We actually have a mixture of cultures and our food reflects that.
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I hope you feel better soon, NHWM.

I made paella the other night. I had no sausage or clams on hand so it was just chicken and shrimp as the meats. I ate too much of it, so dinner last night was a sandwich. Which reminds me, I need to boil some eggs. I used up the last two last night.
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Boiled pot with polish sausages, little yellow potatoes, baby carrets, and cabbage.


Gladimhere, I once dated a guy who always had to have a peanut butter sandwich with his chili! Yuk!!!
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Must get ready for cooler days. Around here, and I never heard of it, chili is served with cinnamon rolls. One of those cultural things. When a kid it was either saltines or corn bread.

I really do not understand the cinnamon roll thing, at all.
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