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Hi Ben,

RH> We had a bit of left over pie
RH> crust after trimming the top so today Steve made mini cinnamon rolls--roll
RH> out the crust, sprinkle it with cinnamon sugar, roll up and cut into 1"
RH> pieces and bake. His mom did it so he taught me to do it years ago.

 BC> That sounds good to me.  Back in the day i used to go to a pizza
 BC> buffet that also included cinnamon rolls made just the way i like
 BC> them.  Soft, buttery, yeasty, and innundated with brown sugary
 BC> cinnamon "syrup".  I
 BC> don't seek out such sweets now, but i definitely eat them if offered.
 BC> :)

Every so often we'll buy a tube of Annie's cinnamon rolls and bake them
up. It started about 10 years ago when we got our first camper; Steve
was on an R-Pod forum and (I don't know how) the thread was brought up
that you have to try making cinnamon rolls in the micro/convection oven.
So, he did so, and we've done so on various trips, even with the regular
oven in the new camper. Don't know how they measure up to what you had
but it's a nice change of pace breakfast for us. I generally will only
have half a roll at a time because they are big.

RH> It all sounded good except for the espresso. I'm not (never was,
never RH> will be) a coffee drinker. I'd have probably had a cuppa tea
instead. (G)

 BC> I normally don't drink espresso either, but i felt like i needed it
 BC> that morning.  My sister made it a little on the weak side, which was
 BC> probably just right for me at that time.

I just can't drink a cup of coffee, even with milk and sugar. The first
couple years we were married, we lived in an apartment in a converted
hotel--the rooms had 10' ceilings. We ran out of gas one night of the
first December, noticed it just after 5pm. Called the gas company; they
said they don't deliver after 5. The building manager loaned us an
electric heater for the night and I made a pot of coffee (electric
percolator). Tried to drink it to warm up but don't think I drank half
of it. Gas was delivered the next morning so I could have my morning
cuppa tea.

RH> Sounds good. I used my 12 qt stock pot for the pea soup we made
recently RH> and the 8 qt stock pot for the goulash soup--both were too
large a RH> quantity to fit into my crock pot.

 BC> Split pea soup is my favorite.  Which would you say is yours?

That's probably my favorite legume soup but a good bowl of goulash soup
is hard to beat. This last pot I made was probably the best I've ever
done with the different tweaks I did.


 BC> I made another lentil soup, this time with a large can of Progresso
 BC> "pot roast" soup as the base, with onions, carrots, potatoes, garlic,
 BC> two bay leaves, home grown rosemary, and water.  I am happy with how
 BC> it turned out.  Tastes like real food.

Sounds like you would need a fork to eat it. (G)

RH> Steve makes a small (7") one in the Instant Pot
RH> and always adds extra chocolate. Extra rich, extra good so a small wedge
RH> will be sufficient.

 BC> Huh, i didn't know you could make cheesecake in an instant pot.  That
 BC> sounds good.  I am imagining a hardened layer of chocolate on top of
 BC> the cheesecake, giving it a candy finish.

The chocolate is mixed thru. The recipe comes from "The Great Big
Pressure Cooker Book" by Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough. Subtitle
is "500 Easy Recipies For Every Machine, Both Stovetop and Electric".
We've also made the maple cheesecake and chicken caccitori from the
book, planning on trying some of the other recipies soon.

 BC> I don't celebrate Christmas and never have.  My classmates assumed
 it BC> meant i was a Jehova's Witness.  I'm not that, nor Jewish, but
 it is BC> legacy from my folks religious objections, who skipped
 Christmas BC> because of its Pagan origins. Historically thanks to the
 puritanical BC> legacy in the USA, there were times and places where
 they outlawed BC> Christmas. Not far from Whoville. ;)

We keep a low key celebration, less so now that the girls are both grown
and gone. No tree, sometimes put out some of my nativity scene
collection, Steve has done some outside lights. Agree that it's now
mostly a pagan celebration but we keep our focus on the real reason for
the season.

Older daughter texted me a couple of weeks ago, asking for paternal
grandmother's fruitcake recipie. I sent it, got a text picture earlier
this week showing that she'd made it. We got ours from Southern Supreme
this year. (G)

Blessed Christmas time.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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