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14 years ago
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Your favorite quick lunch and beverage?
Comments (3)Pizza last week, but more often I nuke a bowl of Chili, Thai-spiced garden stir-fry, or leftover soup-of-the-week, with pepper, winter greens, & minced Chinese Leek stirred in to freshen up flavors. If I'm shaky-tired hungry, Tuna on poppyseed bread, with dijon and cheeze is a great comfort - even better with big leaves of mustard green or other peppery greens inside. If in season, open-faced, with fresh broiled tomato oozing on top. Mmmmm! (I've got about 8 kinds of tomatoes sprouting now! YAY!) I love a good IPA or malty Craft Beer after gardening too. With friends is even more of a reward, but who really wants to leave the garden, clean up and travel to meet em?...See MoreBaked Goods ~ Quick, Appealing, Favorites ~ Share Yours Please
Comments (15)I like to buy all kinds of fresh-baked goods at farmer's markets. I end up making lots of scones and muffins for teachers' meetings, so I just wanted to add a few recipes here. I have some sources (if I do, I'll name it) and some I do not (just didn't note it at the time I saved the recipe). I didn't create the recipe and I may or may not have tweaked these recipes. These always work out great for me! I also added a couple of other recipes I make a lot when I need something in bulk. Hope some work for you! I love, love the vanilla ones (I usually double the recipe)...but the huge hit...pumpkin scones. I doctor up the spice glaze to make it spicier and darker in color than written below. I get asked to make these for every event. (I usually triple the pumpkin recipe since these tend to be more in demand.) There's an old-fashioned crumb cake (I think that's what it's called) in the KA cookbook that I make all the time, too. It's similar to one of the recipes posted on the coffee cake thread. ******************* Scones ====== 1 cup unsalted butter, cold 4 ¼ cups unbleached all-purpose flour ½ cup sugar 2 teaspoon baking powder ½ teaspoon baking soda ¼ teaspoon salt 2 liquid cups heavy cream 1 cup chocolate chips (see variations) Equipment: 2 half sheet pans lined with nonstick liners such as Silpat or parchment a baking stone or a baking sheet Oven Temperature: 400ËF Baking Time: 15 to 20 minutes Servings: 12 or 16 4-in by 1 ½-in high scones 1. Chill the butter. Cut butter into 1" cubes. Refrigerate for at least 30 minutes, or freeze for 10 minutes. 2. Mix the dough. In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Add the butter and with your fingertips, press the cubes into large flakes. (Or use an electric mixer, mixing until the butter is the size of small walnuts.) Stir in the cream just until the flour is moistened and the dough starts to come together in large clumps. Stir in the chips. Knead the dough in the bowl just until it holds together, and turn it our onto a lightly floured board. 3. Preheat the oven. Preheat the oven to 400ËF at least 30 minutes before baking. Have an oven rack at the middle level and set a baking stone or baking sheet on it before preheating. 4. Shape the dough. Lightly flour the top of the dough (or use a floured pastry sleeve), and roll it out into a long rectangle 1 inch thick and about 8 inches by 12 inches; use a bench scraper to keep the edges even by smacking it up against the sides of the dough. Fold the dough in thirds, lightly flour the board again, and rotate the dough so the closed side faces to the left. Roll it out again and repeat the "turn" 3 more times, refrigerating the dough, covered with plastic wrap, for about 15 minutes as necessary only if it begins to soften and stick. Roll out the dough once more. Trim the edges so it will rise......See MoreRECIPE: Quick & Easy Creamy Chicken Ranch Soup
Comments (2)I do this all the time, except I don't add in any Ranch Dressing, and I use frozen mixed veggies....See MoreYour favorite hose Quick Connect fittings?
Comments (10)Walmart bought an online shopping/shipping company several months ago, so they are defs getting into shipping. I like their option to ship to the local Walmart store. Living in the country that is usually faster than shipping 60 miles away from the nearest store. I can pick it up on the weekend when I go to town. But back on the hose stuff, I'm sure you'll get plenty of tips about quick connect, but here's what I do. I hate dripping hose fittings. I only buy hoses with a solid brass fitting, not stamped brass or the stamped brass look. Brass has a nasty feature that it will erode away when pressurized water leaks through. Once it leaks, you can't stop that leak by tightening the fitting. So what I do is at the first sign of leakage I replace the brass fitting with a plastic one. The plastic lasts a good long time unless you drive over it with the car. I also put a plastic on/off valve at the end of every hose. The last thing I do is install a #15 O-ring inside all my sprinklers and hand held hose devices. The O-ring replaces the flat washer that comes with the sprinklers. Once I do that I have a leak free system with easy to find parts....See Morecaflowerluver
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