USCHO Cooks: Are you our Top Chef?

[MissThundercat]

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I'm going to have to make this to be sure, but honestly, I don't think the chocolate is required. Seems to me like that would just interfere with the other two flavors.

I'm wondering if using the oily "natural" PB from Trader Joe's would affect the recipe. I usually pour off about half the oil when I first open the jar, so...

Anyway, I have more "Ora" salmon as of tonight. If you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go celebrate my bonus and raise after a long week of travel.

I use the $2.39 for a jar Meijer brand. I am always concerned about oil separation.

[MadTownSioux]

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Throw away all of your romaine lettuce

[dxmnkd316]

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Holy moly. That's a pretty broad warning by the CDC...

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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First spinach. Then bean sprouts. Now lettuce.

What's next?

[dxmnkd316]

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My favorite thing I saw on Facebook today was:

CDC says to throwaway lettuce and we all throw it out. They say get your vaccines and all of a sudden the Illuminati are involved.

[MissThundercat]

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Cranberry Pecan Pumpkin bread is in the oven, soon to be followed by Chocolate Chip Pecan cookies.

Based on the batters on both, I got what I wanted. Now to give them away before I get high on my own supply...

[wolverineTrumpet]

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Question: How do you prefer your T-day stuffing/dressing?

I'm a girl who loves all the carbs! My cousin put fruit in his dressing this year. Stuffing should be savory, not sweet. It made me a very sad panda. I didn't like the cherry or cranberry or whatever it was in there. If someone wants to sweeten their stuffing, they can do it on their own plate by taking a spoonful of cranberry relish or fruit/jello salad.

Personally, I love a simple celery, onion, bread, seasonings stuffing. My sister-in-law also makes one with sausage which is really good.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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Dressing is like beer. Just say no to fruit.

[leswp1]

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Question: How do you prefer your T-day stuffing/dressing?

I'm a girl who loves all the carbs! My cousin put fruit in his dressing this year. Stuffing should be savory, not sweet. It made me a very sad panda. I didn't like the cherry or cranberry or whatever it was in there. If someone wants to sweeten their stuffing, they can do it on their own plate by taking a spoonful of cranberry relish or fruit/jello salad.

Personally, I love a simple celery, onion, bread, seasonings stuffing. My sister-in-law also makes one with sausage which is really good.

Guilty. I like celery, onion, apple, dried cherries. I am the only one who eats it. I make regular for the rest of the heathens. Meat of any sort in stuffing is just plain wrong.

[melmac]

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Guilty. I like celery, onion, apple, dried cherries. I am the only one who eats it. I make regular for the rest of the heathens. Meat of any sort in stuffing is just plain wrong.

My mom would put the giblets in her stuffing. My grandpa and great uncle fought over who got them, so she just put it in the mix.

[leswp1]

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My mom would put the giblets in her stuffing. My grandpa and great uncle fought over who got them, so she just put it in the mix.

They used to be in our gravy. I don't put them in and I don't miss it one bit. Yuck.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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For gravy, you mainly just need the neck. I wouldn't use any of the other parts in a gravy you plan on serving to guests, especially the gizzard.

[jen]

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Personally, I love a simple celery, onion, bread, seasonings stuffing. My sister-in-law also makes one with sausage which is really good.

This is what we have - with sausage.

[MissThundercat]

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The one lonely perk of cooking for my dad and I:

I can do what I want and no one complains. Next time, my stuffing will have apples or dried cranberries.

[jen]

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2018 cookies -

New -
Pecan currant rugelach - BEST RUGELACH EVER
Rum punch sandwich - sugar slice and bake cookies with a chocolate-raspberry-rum filling
Buttered rum shortbread - from the Sister Pie cookbook - sorry, no link. Buy the cookbook.
Pistachio cream cheese
Cherry Rum Ribbons
Eggnog Glazed Spritz
Orange Oatmeal Currant
GF Pinwheels - this recipe has disappeared - made them red and green instead of vanilla and chocolate

Repeats -
Ginger Jump Ups - recipe from Zingerman's
Gingerbread Snickerdoodles
GF Red Velvet Crinkle
Peanut Butter Maple
Hot Cocoa Cookies - also a version with peppermint extract and peppermint chunks
Cornflake wreaths
Peppermint Shortbread
Grasshoppers
Zimsterne
Christmas Confetti Biscotti
GF Maple Pecan Shortbread
Chocolate Cherry Pistachio pinwheels
Dark Chocolate Buttercrunch
Peppermint Bark
GF Choc Cherry Oatmeal


Also had some stuff to use up, so added these -

Smores and Cookies Cream - from the packages of cookies and cream chips, and S'mores baking bits
Apricot White Chocolate Oatmeal
Maple Pecan Snickerdoodle - from the package of maple chips
Berry Bark - basically all the leftover dried fruit and nuts - cherries, apricots, blueberries, pistachios, pecans - with white chocolate


I'm not quite done yet. The rugelach is seriously incredible. I've made rugelach before, and it doesn't even compare to this recipe. I was going to use the chocolate-raspberry-rum filling in the rugelach, but it's not usually baked, and I was afraid it would melt everywhere (and I had leftover currants anyway). Then I had to come up with a sandwich cookie that wasn't a cutout.

Also, my cookie press broke when I was making the spritz cookies, and it was a huge pain in the ***. Someone please make a cookie press that does NOT have breakable plastic parts.