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I give up. Butter has become so expensive I didn't want to use it to grease my bread pans, so I used olive oil this time. Bad bad bad idea. The dough absorbed the oil and as a result both loaves completely stuck to the pans. So I quit and ordered 2 silicon bread pans. 😂

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Tonight's dinner

Mushroom, salami, roasted garlic, Mexican Oregano, red pepper, red onion.

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Tomatoes, garlic and herbs from my garden.

This might be enough Marinara sauce to get me through to next year's harvest :)

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The last of this year's canning. 8 pints of Blackberry Lime jelly sweetened with stevia.

I still have several types of tomatoes I grew to turn into sauce and then freeze. That's a lot easier than making jelly.

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Today's cooking, baked mac & cheese (cheddar, Gruyere, Asiago) and roast chicken. I'll bone the chicken after it cools and freeze some, also divide up the mac and freeze some. Time to make some chicken stock too.

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Moroccan Lentil Soup

This is my own recipe that I devised while cooking for an annual large gathering of pagans in the Vancouver area

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Not sure what I did with my old recipe so I had to wing it.

It's been years since I made any white bread so I decided to make some today. Looks like it turned out OK

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A new study of the microbial ecosystem in sourdough finds that using different types of flour fosters distinct bacterial communities, and that these differences contribute to the variation of sourdough aromas and flavors.

If you make sourdough you should read this.

https://phys.org/news/2023-10-flours-sourdough-fosters-bacteriaand-flavors.html

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Today's baking - Yum!

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To wash or not to wash. The answer may surprise you.

https://www.iflscience.com/do-you-need-to-wash-rice-before-cooking-heres-the-science-70725

#cosocooking Today's lunch
- home made bread (WW, Rye, AP)
-Homegrown fresh Brandywine heritage tomato
- bacon
- Cheddar cheese
- Romaine lettuce

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Tonight's dinner. Fresh basil, chopped Tomato, carrots, Thyme, yellow tomato sauce from last year's crop, BBQ chicken breast, Rotini pasta. Grated Romano added after picture was taken.

Enough Shepherd's pie for 8 meals #cosocooking

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Last year I grew a bunch of yellow pear shaped tomatoes (https://mckenzieseeds.com/collections/vegetable/products/tomato-yellow-pearshaped-organic). They were quite delicious and prolific. Yesterday I took the last of them out of my freezer and made sauce with them. It's delicious. This year I'm growing 4 of this variety, 4 San Marzano Roma, and 3 Brandywine. I'll be making a lot of sauces and freezing them.

#cosocooking Do you have a favorite kitchen implement that you treasure and won't let anyone else use? Mine is this maple spoon that I've had since the early 80s. You can see that one edge is worn from being used hard.

Tonight's dinner

Chicken breast julienned and sauteed in butter and olive oil with garlic and Mexican oregano. Yellow tomato sauce from tomatoes I grew last summer. Diced assorted bell peppers, and white onion, fusillo bucato #145, salt, pepper, and shaved Asiago.

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AP Flour- 4 C.
Baking Powder- 2 teaspoon
Baking Soda- 2 teaspoon
Stevia (or sugar)- 1.5 C
Butter- 1/2 C (72g) soft
Coconut oil - 1/2 C
Eggs- 4 beat.
Vanilla Extract- 2 teaspoon
Bananas- 5, mashed
Greek yoghurt - 1 1/4 C
1 cup walnuts
1 C unsweetened shredded coconut

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Oat flour, cranberry muffins with Stevia rather than regular sugar

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Today's #baking. Two loaves 70% whole wheat bread and banana bread with chocolate chips and walnuts

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Hazelnut crust, lime curd, blackberry sauce, Stevia - no sugar . Just made. #cooking #baking