I just read an article in The Guardian about a woman in Oregon … when she retired she started baking a pie a day and giving them away. She had wonderful experiences, wish she’d write a book!
That guy really deserves something nice. Can you find out what his favorites might be?
My solution for everything is homemade cookies. Right now I’m again making Brown Butter Toffee (Skor) Chocolate Wafer (TJ 72% Pound Plus chopped) Cookies.
I would bake him whatever you most enjoy baking!! And I would guess that’s a bundt cake…
He will prob get a small pound cake, yes. They keep so well - if he doesn’t care to eat it, he can save it for his grandkids.
I was going to start some dough last night for “something” and then decided not to. Regretting it now 
I love that Ricotta loaf cake with Grand Marnier from Alexandra’s Kitchen. Easy.
Dinner was a Wegmans chuck & brisket burger with bacon and cheese on a brioche bun, Lamb-Weston fries done in the convection oven with ketchup for dipping, and a Roma tomato and the rest of an English cuke in a dressing of Penzeys Buttermilk and Creamy Peppercorn dressing mix with mayo and 1% milk.
It’s days like these that my condo fee is worth it. Starting before 5 a.m. and ending around 5 p.m., the snow removal company our association contracted with did a great job. I would NOT have been able to do even my small driveway with as heavy as this snow is.
Glad to hear the snow removal company is staying on top of things. We’ve been seeing the ridiculous amount of snow you’ve been getting and it looks like it will take a few days to dig yourselves out of that mess.
We ended up with almost 2 feet, with drifts much higher than that in some places. I did some meal prep and made three dinners tonight - cod cakes, salmon burgers, and sheet pan charred meat pitas (just did the smashed kofta part of the recipe today- used ground turkey because that’s what I had) It’ll be another snow day here in suburbia tomorrow, so I told my daughter we’ll attempt pita bread for the meat koftas. I have three cukes from Costco so we’ll do tzatziki or a cucumber salad to go with. I would love to bake the Dubai chocolate brownie recipe I’ve been meaning to make, but we’ll see how the morning goes first!
How much snow did you end up with? Definitely miss the snow removal perk of condo living!
I’m north of Boston and we got less than the South Shore and the Cape. Providence, RI, got the most…38". I heard the baby Bobcat come through again to get the last of it in my complex, so I suspect the roads up by me will be OK by the morning.
I really want a report on the sheet-pan charred meat pitas! I saw that recipe today and it called my name.
Will do! I will probably regret using ground turkey, but here’s hoping lol!
I want to say 15"? This is just visual from inside from when they were snowblowing the walkways the 2nd time, as I never went outside.
I just saw that Jim Cantore from the Weather Channel was in Plymouth, MA and got to experience thundersnow again, just as he did in Feb. 2015 in the same place. He loves that shit. LOL
Good day to putter in the kitchen and experiment.
Only thing I thought I’d make that I didn’t was a small orange cake.
Dumpling “Lasagna”
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“Blanket” (No-Fold) Dumplings
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”Smashed” Kababs
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Dumpling lasagna looks delicious. I am going to have to try this.
Started the second snow day a bit earlier than I’d like, with toad in a hole, which I haven’t made in decades. Kid was suitably impressed.
I am so jealous. We spent two hours doing our front stairs and 100’ of sidewalk (ours and our elderly neighbor’s). Haven’t even touched the back yet (another double flight of stairs, two cars on a parking pad and a 50’ driveway. Our official total was around 16” but drifts were over 3’ in some areas. Our front stairs have tall cheek walls that hang onto snow - we had at least 2.5’ there. Next year, we’re hiring someone!
Yeah, hiring out ahead of time is well worth the maybe $100 to $150 to get you plowed and shoveled out. And Fall River seems to be the jackpot area - 41" of snow - which WELL surpasses the Blizzard of '78. But times were different back then, not as many plows on the road; no one but Harvey Leonard predicting a Snowmageddon which it turned out to be, and the timing of that storm stranding everyone on the roads. The pictures from then are still astonishing.
Good luck with the rest of the snow - and take frequent rests, please! I can deal with light fluffy snow, but after my health issues a year + ago, I won’t do this heavy stuff.
My SO was looking at me strangely when I set up the no-knead bread on Sunday night. I told him, trust me, you will be glad that I did. He polished off half the loaf with generous smears of Kerrygold butter yesterday. Along with most of the quiche.
Ah, the beauty of a well stocked pantry and the skill to know what to do with it. For that I am quite thankful.
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