Adventures in Sourdough Bread Making
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by Cynthia
3w ago
I haven't made sourdough since the pandemic, and even back then, I wasn't particularly good at it.   My friend Alex is a master and he wanted me to test out his sourdough starter method, but I killed my starter after about a month of trying.   So, I just started another one in the typical fashion, where you use water and flour and then throw half of it away everyday and feed it more.  I started it with whole wheat flour and then fed it AP flour. I kept it warm by using a smaller version of one of the cherry pit pads I sell in my etsy shop by heating it up for 2 mi ..read more
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Six Inch Cakes
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by Cynthia
2M ago
  my hubby's 58th birthday cake Since I am going to become a grandma this year, I figure I need to level up my cake making game.   It's just that unless you are serving 12 people, a layer cake is just way too much for us.  After reading a blog post on Sally's Baking Addiction about making 6" cakes,  I determined this might be the solution to the problem.    I needed to invest in a trio of 6" baking pans, so I followed Sally's suggestion of the Fat Daddio brand, and I tried to buy them locally at Swift's Hardware, which has an excellent cooking secti ..read more
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New Year, New Baby
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by Cynthia
2M ago
  We had a baby shower for my daughter in law Olivia yesterday.   My first grandbaby!  The food was delicious, many of the ladies brought yummy food to pass.  I made some mini cheese balls (shown above) from my favorite cheeseball recipe formed in half inch balls that  I rolled in ground pecans.   This is so much more convenient than a whole cheeseball for a large crowd.  I made a great recipe for Mediterranean Turkey Pinwheels I found on the interwebs that was delicious and easy.   I made them a day ahead and wrapped them in w ..read more
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Monster Cookies
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by Cynthia
5M ago
  I know, they don't look like much.   But a couple years ago, I won a gift basket in a raffle and it included something called "Monster Cookies" and they were so delicious, I had to figure out how to make them. At the time, I was regularly baking for an assortment of carpenters, plumbers and electricians that were working on my house, so I was always looking for something new to try.   I made a batch of these and presented them to the 2 young electricians that were installing the ceiling fan in my craft room.   One of them said "I can't have them, I'm glu ..read more
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Sweet Corn Memories
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by Cynthia
7M ago
  Since I have moved to the Keweenaw, I have really missed some great produce you just can't get up here.   For example, there really isn't local cantaloupe and watermelon.  I had to buy canning peaches when I was downstate in Traverse City last weekend.   And the sweet corn at the farmer's market has been a big disappointment.    I did find some great sweet corn for sale at the gas station at the Indian reservation in Baraga from Johnson Farms.  I bought a dozen ears and we ate some, and I made corn relish with the rest.  It was 92 degrees t ..read more
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English Muffins
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by Cynthia
7M ago
This year, I entered many contests at the Houghton County Fair.  It was a lot of fun to do!   I entered 21 things and won 7 blue ribbons: food preparation: English muffin (only entry so that was an easy win!), food preservation: Dill Pickles, Salsa and Floriculture: dahlia (only one entered), succulent, dracaena, terrarium.  I had never made English muffins before, and I have to say they were kind of a pain to make, but they came out so good.  I probably will make them again, so I want to remember how I did it.  I found a recipe on the King Arthur website, bu ..read more
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Visiting Isle Royale
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by Cynthia
7M ago
  This past week, Andy and I finally visited Isle Royale after all these years of wanting to get there.  When we were in college, we had plenty of time to do it, but no money.  After we graduated, we had the funds but were short on time.   Now that we are retired, we were finally able to do it! Getting there: Isle Royale is the least visited national park, and rightly so.   It's difficult to get there!  You can get there by seaplane or boat from the Keweenaw Peninsula in Michigan or Grand Marais, Minnesota.  None are cheap!  We took the seapl ..read more
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Jacobson's Recipes
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by Cynthia
9M ago
The Dearborn Store I got a little nostalgic about Jacobson's the other day.   When I was a new engineer at Ford and working and living in Dearborn, my hair salon was in the Dearborn store right on Michigan Ave.   They had a restaurant there called "Top of the Fountain" where ladies would lunch.   West Dearborn was a very preppy affluent area and we had all sorts of fancy shopping, including a Pendleton store and Crowley's and, of course, Jake's, as we used to call it.   I got a book out of the library about it's history, and it included several recipe ..read more
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Strawberry Chiffon Pie
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by Cynthia
9M ago
As usual this time of year, I am up to my eyeballs in delicious Copper County Strawberries.   I prefer  to get my berries from Crane Berry Farm in Chassell.  They are the best.    Jane is up visiting, and she requested a strawberry pie.  I had recently checked out Kate Lebo's Pie School cookbook from the library and came upon her recipe for strawberry chiffon pie that she said was inspired by the strawberry chiffon pie recipe in Farm Journal's Complete Pie Cookbook, which is one I don't have in my arsenal of Farm Journal cookbooks.   I need to ..read more
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Rhubarb Meringue Squares
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by Cynthia
10M ago
  I was reading a blog I like called The Culinary Cellar and the author often posts recipes from the once wonderful, but now defunct Cuisine magazine.   This one featured a recipe called "Laura's Strawberry Rhubarb Bars" and I liked the idea of meringue with rhubarb.   I'm a rhubarb purist, however, and prefer to keep strawberries far away from it.   We are still at least a month off from strawberry season up here, anyway.   I wanted to make something from my fantastic giant rhubarb plant growing in my yard.   So I decided to ..read more
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