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USCHO Cooks: Maybe We Can Beat Bobby Flay

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What do you normally get?

Also, I completely agree. I once got to taste real brown sugar off a line at a sugar factory. Not the stuff that’s been centrifuged and had molasses added back. It’s got a different flavor that I really liked.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
What do you normally get?

Also, I completely agree. I once got to taste real brown sugar off a line at a sugar factory. Not the stuff that’s been centrifuged and had molasses added back. It’s got a different flavor that I really liked.
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I used to get Grandma Moses. Now I get Crosby's. We will see. I tried to diff batches with the junky stuff. Second time I was really careful with my measuring and still a disaster. When you are making paper thin cookies and the dough is totally inconsistent no matter how carefully mixed- um blech. :(
 
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leswp1 said:
Obviously not Market Basket brand :(
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LOL.

Our daughter went on a jihad against the Trader Joe's brand. I didn't get to taste the result but apparently it was a war crime.
 
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DisplacedCornellian said:
I'll second Grandma's. Brer Rabbit is good, too.

I try to avoid the store brands. Some are alright, others not so much. I had a jar of Food Lion brand that tasted like cheap pancake syrup that a wet dog had rolled around in. Not good eats.
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Grandmas is not available around here for some reason
 
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<a href="http://www.beachloverkitchen.com/2010/12/soft-cheese-bread-by-peter-reinharts.html">Peter Reinhart's soft cheese bread</a> - I used the book, and not this recipe, but it's close.

I used cubed sharp cheddar, since I prefer to taste and see the cheese, and I did loaves (boule).

Just a little tip... if you use a stone, put a sheet of parchment over it, or you'll end up scraping burnt cheese off it.

I need to buy a peel.
 
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I have some cute gingerbread icing decorations to use, so I made David Lebovitz' <a href="http://www.finecooking.com/recipe/guinness-gingerbread-cupcakes">Guinness and Gingerbread cupcakes</a>. Topping them with my caramel cream cheese maple rum glaze instead of frosting.

For Christmas dinner, I'm contributing <a href="https://leitesculinaria.com/101152/recipes-vegetable-lasagna.html">Vegetarian lasagna</a>, although I can't remember what vegetables I used last year.

For Christmas brunch (a new-ish family tradition), making <a href="https://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/the-easiest-butter-pecan-kringle-ever-recipe">Butter Pecan Kringle</a>, some sort of cinnamon bread, and a berry coffee cake TBA.
 
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jen said:
I have some cute gingerbread icing decorations to use, so I made David Lebovitz' <a href="http://www.finecooking.com/recipe/guinness-gingerbread-cupcakes">Guinness and Gingerbread cupcakes</a>. Topping them with my caramel cream cheese maple rum glaze instead of frosting.

For Christmas dinner, I'm contributing <a href="https://leitesculinaria.com/101152/recipes-vegetable-lasagna.html">Vegetarian lasagna</a>, although I can't remember what vegetables I used last year.

For Christmas brunch (a new-ish family tradition), making <a href="https://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/the-easiest-butter-pecan-kringle-ever-recipe">Butter Pecan Kringle</a>, some sort of cinnamon bread, and a berry coffee cake TBA.
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I would like to be adopted.
 
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I made the dark chocolate buttercrunch that jen had posted in her long list of cookies. So good.
Gave some to my mother-in-law as a gift. If I don't eat it all by Friday, some will go to Texas for my family to try.

Also had a major fail this weekend as the chex mix I was going to give away as gifts was not good. I have my family recipe mostly memorized, apparently I did not have the oven temperature memorized and I burned things. After I took it out to stir the first time it looked weird so I turned the temperature up, I should not have done that.
 
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wolverineTrumpet said:
I made the dark chocolate buttercrunch that jen had posted in her long list of cookies. So good.
Gave some to my mother-in-law as a gift. If I don't eat it all by Friday, some will go to Texas for my family to try.
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The buttercrunch is, by far, the most popular thing I make for Christmas.

jen said:
I have some cute gingerbread icing decorations to use, so I made David Lebovitz' <a href="http://www.finecooking.com/recipe/guinness-gingerbread-cupcakes">Guinness and Gingerbread cupcakes</a>. Topping them with my caramel cream cheese maple rum glaze instead of frosting.
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**** you, Lebovitz. I generally trust his recipes and don't question them if they don't seem right - because he knows more than I do. If this was from a MommyBlog, I wouldn't have filled the cupcake cups that full. But I believed him when he said "divide the batter evenly between cups" rather than the usual "fill 3/4 of the way". Cupcakes mushroomed on me and didn't bake evenly. :( And now I'm still stuck with the gingerbread decorations.
 
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