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Mike McGarvey
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Soonergrandmom- can we talk about your mixer?
Comments (2)I have the big one and it can make about any kind of dough you want to make, but it works best with a large recipe, like 3 loaves of bread or larger. I'm not saying it doesn't work with smaller amounts, but it is a real workhorse with a large load. I have made double recipes of bagels also, which is a really stiff dough and it handles it just fine. Most of the bread I make has a great deal of whole wheat, or white whole wheat, flour and it works great for that. I bought several accessories with mine but the one that has been most useful to me is the Slicer/Shredder attachment. I buy my cheese in 8 oz packages and just shred the blocks and keep them ready in the refrigerator. When I was making pickles every other day or so last season, it was great for slicing the cucumbers. It shreds cabbage easily. It has a blade that will slice potatoes for potato chips, or a little thicker for scalloped potatoes. It has been well worth the $120, but I am not as impressed with the after-market things. If it says Bosch on it, it has to be a winner. My kitchen center was vintage, so when I replaced it I bought everything new. It was very expensive, but I deserved it. LOL The blender is extremely powerful but is hard for me to get the blade unit off of. The lid is used to remove the bottom and I sometimes have to ask my husband to take it off. There is another tool, but I didn't realize it when I bought my blender. I liked my old blender better just for the ease of cleaning. Since you have a Vitamix, you don't have to worry about that anyway. The bowl for the slicer/shredder has a dough hook that you can buy as an extra and although I bought it, I have never used it. I thought that I would use it for making things like pizza dough or small bread recipes, but I have just used the big one instead. I do think it would work for smaller recipes though. All of the Bosch stuff is quality. The center section of the lid from the big bowl fits the top of the slicer/shredder bowl if you want to use it for mixing. I bought the whisk attachment for the small bowl and I have not been happy with that, but it doesn't carry the Bosch name. I ordered mine last Fall from the website below, then in November when I was in Utah, I went there and bought the small accessories that I wanted to add. I guess that I am not a food processor person, because it is still in the cabinet unused at this point. Everything that I have needed to do, I could do with the other attachments. I have used the same pizza dough recipes for years, but changed last year after discovering this one on-line. The instructions are for a food processor, but I just use my Bosch. I always double or triple it. Sometimes I make pizza for the freezer but mostly I just follow the "Make Ahead" instructions, but I separate the dough into one pizza size and put it in individual quart size Ziplocks. It keeps for 5 days like that and I can always use a pizza crust, for some type of flat bread or even a desert. Sometimes I just add carmelized onions and cheese and we eat it as bread, (think pizza without sauce). You can find the recipe here: http://www.fabulousfoods.com/recipes/cheri-s-favorite-pizza-dough I have made it just like the recipe or used whole wheat flour in place of the semolina and both are good. When I bought my mixer, I assumed that I would need those smaller attachments when I wasn't cooking for a crowd. Instead, I just started making all of our bread. I have always made homemade bread, but we have still bought bread for sandwiches. We have not bought a loaf of bread since I bought the Bosch. I make bread, rolls, pizza crust, bagels, hamburger buns, a just about anything else I can think of. I still have a small hand mixer that gets used, but if it is too big for that, the Bosch is the tool of choice. If you are thinking of buying one, my suggestion would be to go on-line to www.BYUTV.org and put Chef Brad in the search box. He is a chef that cooks with whole grains, and he uses a Bosch in most of the baking portions of his programs. The linked website also has some video to watch. There is a learning curve and it took me several tries before I was happy with my bread. It is mixed so completely that it doesn't need to be cooked as long as I had always cooked mine, plus I never use flour when I am shaping the loaves. Instead I use a small amount of oil on my hands and my mat. I put all of the ingredients in the mixer except for holding back about half of the flour. I let it mix to combine, then leave it there until the dough starts to puff up a little, maybe 15-20 minutes while I do something else. Then I begin to add the flour a small amount at a time until the dough pulls away from the sides of the bowl. Then I set the timer and let it knead for 8 minutes. I take it out and shape the loaves and put it into greased pans, or just shape it to cook on a stone. If I am cooking on a stone, I let the loaf rise on parchment paper and I slide paper and all onto the hot stone. For a normal size loaf, I bake at 360 degrees for 33 minutes. The Bosch mixer is a quality piece of equipment and has worked great for me, but do your homework first because it is a different concept of use since it mixes from below and comes up through the center of the mixing bowl. To keep this about gardening.....it certainly made my food prep easier at harvest time last year, because it shreds and slices in a heartbeat. Here is a link that might be useful: Bosch Dealer...See MoreTalk to me about your convection microwave please!
Comments (30)dodge59.....well, after a day of shopping for appliances and other house-related things, we're now back to the Advantium. The sales person, whom we really trust, says he doesn't know where all the bad reviews are coming from with the Advantiums (the 120 model though). I know maybe that's just 'sales-speak', but the people I know who have them really love them and haven't had any trouble with them. The sales person said he has yet to have one of his customers complain about the Advantium. He just got the 120 model himself and told me all the things he's cooking in it. So.....my head is spinning from changing my mind so much. But I think we're back to the Advantium. However, I'm really grateful for the discussion about convection/microwaves. I didn't really know about them before, and it would be a wonderful thing to take with us in our RV when we hit the road for several months at a time. wrighthouse.....we looked all over town for a Panasonic or Sharp. I wanted to see it in person. Couldn't find one. Anyway, it sounds like a wonderful appliance, and you'll have to report back after you've used yours for awhile. Thanks for your input! ideagirl2..... You make me feel better. I do stuff like that all the time. :-) Thanks!...See MoreIm sure this has been talked about but needing your input
Comments (14)My EX husband would come home after work (late) and get on those sites. I didn't much care about that... until I realized he had profiles on dating sites/sex sites. He tried to pass it off as "just porn". Yeah.... Hoakie, IMO, it has nothing to do with you being attractive or not. He's bored. It's entertainment. But if he's so boring he can't find anything else to do at night than watch knife sharpening, HSN or porn... well... then he's an idiot. Sorry. I can find TONS of things to do at 1am that don't involve naked strangers. PS Marge, while I think your intentions are good... I would not stay up until 1am to "cuddle" with my husband. Sorry. I had to get up the next morning early. He wasn't waking up with me to get breakfast on the table for the kids, etc. The best part here, I think, is that he admitted it to you straight off. My ex lied. And then lied again. Even when caught red-handed, he lied. That's why I divorced him. He is a liar. Not because he liked porn....See MoreTalk to me about your tiny little corner microwave!
Comments (12)I have the exact tiny corner microwave (Whirlpool) that you posted. It's a stop gap for us until we redo the kitchen. It's ok. Be aware that it's designed for warming up a dinner plate of food, nothing much bigger will fit. I can fit my Corningware 2.5 qt casseroles but not the larger/flatter 10x10 (plus handles) dish. If you use those stand-up packages for rice etc , those are too tall for the cavity. I haven't tried popcorn in it. It does baked potatoes surprisingly well but I only ever do two at most. As ILoveRed said, it moves around every time you open and close the door. It does help to have it "pinned" into a corner lol. I hope this is helpful, you didn't mention how you use a microwave. The GE one you show looks like it has a little more power 800 vs 750 watts but on the GE you can turn off the turntable and thus (I believe) be able to put a larger dish inside....See More
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6 years agohairmetal4ever
6 years agoA few from around my yard:
Cercis canadensis. Third year from seed.
Metasequoia. It lost its leader last summer, it just randomly died back. There is a live bud right where I cut it, I’m guessing it might’ve been a cicada because there was a slit in it that looked like an oviposit.
Quercus x bebbiana
Quercus x schuettei
Acer buergerianum.
Quercus x sternbergii, which doesn’t like to make a terminal bud for some reason.
bengz6westmd
6 years agohairmetal4ever
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6 years agoWon't be long now.
Temps are rising and glaciers receding. :-) At least it will be more bearable with temps above freezing, night and day. Still snow on the ground but amazing how fast it disappears once the sun starts peaking out. I noticed water soaking into the ground as the snow melts so not much frost and not very deep.
whaas_5a
6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoI can finally see the light!
in the meantime there is more snow on the ground after 3 days in April than any point this whole winter!
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6 years agolast modified: 6 years agowhaas,
We dodged the bullet again today, thank goodness. The snow went south of us for the 5th time now.
I looked at my eastern hemlock and it looks a little beat up. There's a few branch tips at the top of the tree and some scattered needles that have went brown. Some only half the needle at the tip with the rest of the needle toward the stem still green.
It's been a true Z3 winter this year, extreme cold with snow, extreme cold with little snow, even some extreme winds and loooong. But I don't think the tree is badly damaged, only time will tell for sure. If it fails, at least I'll know it's not a tree for around here.
Yesterday:
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6 years agoMike McGarvey
6 years agoRhododendron King George is considered a tree when mature. Here's one of mine with a friend for scale. I've been pruning it to show it as a tree rather than a large bush. The smaller rhododendrons are branches that have rooted. I may be able to transplant a few. The trees behind it are Cercidiphyllum magnificum. They need to be thinned. (Katsura)
hairmetal4ever
6 years agoApril 20, 2017
Today
Last April was very warm. This one...not so much. Same tree, same date, one year apart.
j0nd03
6 years agohairmetal4ever
6 years agoMy Q. michauxii sapling (grown from the county champion tree in Columbia, MD) looks like this now.
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Peve yellow bald cypress coming along. Vivid yellow/green almost chartreuse in personbengz6westmd
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5 years agoThings are still far behind here. Saucer Magnolia and even forsythias are blooming. I have open exposed land with Sandy loam soil so it warms up quicker than a lot of areas.
pink flair cherry and autumn splendor buckeye
bengz6westmd
5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoMaryland drenched w/rain recently -- but May is the wettest month, at least here in west MD. This is the latest weekly rainfall -- rain moving east-southeast along nearly stationary front:
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