cherry-almond with almond frosting - these were
absolutely delicious; apparently they had been designed
with a vanilla frosting in mind, but by happy accident
Lydia had reached for the almond bottle instead of the
vanilla;

She decided to make the cherry-almond because she found the almond
flavored frosting while emptying her fridge for the picnic use... it was
a previous mistake, which she decided happily to use in this way...

Same issue, different day?

cinnamon-raisin, likewise excellent in an expected
cinnamon-bunny way but not too sweet as orthodox
cinnamon buns most often are;

Less sugar inside in the filling, and left to be made up for with the frosting (which usually would be vanilla)...

Well, that makes sense, doesn't it.

lemon, a bit mild, also a bit wet inside; and

She mentioned that those hadn't turned out quite as she would have
liked.... I'm not sure quite what she meant, though...

It wasn't clear to me, either; lemon-flavored breads
aren't embedded in my consciousness, though.

savory parmesan-garlic-herb, which were perfectly okay
but more of a dinner roll sort of thing;

That one is one of her standard ones, that she'll make for all
occasions.... :)

It seemed out of place along with the breakfasty
offerings, but in and of itself, it was fine. Less fine
when the leftovers were stored in the same container
with leftover sweet breads.

(for the church dinner next day she also made maple pecan,
very nice, especially with the maple frosting she whipped
up to go with).

The maple frosting inspired by her fortuitous almond frosting finding...

A potentially fertile field for experimentation.

In addition, she took time out of her busy schedule to take
orders for eggs cheesy or over easy; I decided to sacrifice
and not tax her resources so just had a mug of the hot cocoa
that she had so kindly and energetically provided.

You would have enjoyed her over easy eggs... she makes them properly
runny... ;)

I'm sure, insofar as I enjoy breakfast foods at all.

Steve suggested that the hot pepper jelly went well with the
savory rollups, but there was too much other good sampling
for me to bother.

It did go nicely.. :)

Buffalo flavor was at least as nasty as the review had said.
I detected a strong blue cheese odor and suggest that Dale's
review was too gentle on these things. Nobody liked these,
but someone who shall remain unremembered suggested using
them crunched up as a casserole topping.

I think that when Shirley tasted them the next day, she actually liked them... but she forgot to take them with her when they left... :)

More for you, heh. I'd have been torn, given my
dislike for wasting food. Perhaps in a chili casserole
for the next fellowship dinner. Or would that be throwing
good food after bad?

The Crab Chip smelled appropriately of Old Bay but tasted
very like celery salt. Thumbs down from me again, but
someone (Shirley I think) kind of liked them.

Bonnie, I think... She took them at the end...

Ah, I got the who liked what mixed up. They of course are
both charming.

Red Hot were, everyone agreed, exactly as advertised. They
were a neutral, ordinary chip with a lurid red coating that
actually had substantial heat and not much else. I liked them.

I thought you were going to take those along for the trip... Steve took
them, IIRC...

It's okay - we got Grandma Utz's on the way back -
at a Sheetz or Wawa where the Shipps also picked
up Lego candies for their daughter, who loves all
things Lego.

Dole cherry fruit cup from I think Nancy was to me another
dud, the fruit (no apples or apple products) sweetened with
stevia and monkfruit and supposedly a natural alternative to
fruit cocktail in heavy syrup. I don't buy it and won't buy it.

I did indeed bring them... I'd been disappointed in them, and brought
them as tastings and as "youpeople food", figuring that Hafflys would probably take them off my hands... :)

I hope they weren't that desperate?

Tasted to me like ordinary with what tasted like artificial
cherry (but turned out to be natural flavors) and with a
strong fake-sugar bitterness, which I hate, and I speak as
someone who used to suck saccharin tablets.

I always hated saccherin and then developed an allergy to it as well...
but I too, taste the bitterness of the stevia... two cups of the Dole on
two separate occasions was enough to convince me that those weren't for
my consumption... At least the stevia wasn't so pronounced in the baked
goods Ruth has made with it... perhaps she uses less....

Combining fake and real sweeteners can be a decent
compromise.

... Don't eat that. Studies prove it is hazardous to your health.

"Don't eat that. Studies prove it isn't hazardous to your health."

Wasabi Aioli
categories: starter. sauce, ingredient
yield: 1/2 c

1/2 c mayonnaise
1 1/2 ts wasabi paste
1 1/2 ts minced garlic
1 ts bottled minced ginger
1/4 ts kosher salt
1/8 ts ground black pepper

In a medium bowl, combine mayonnaise, wasabi,
garlic, ginger, salt, and pepper.

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Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 09-24-18 02:16 <=-

cherry-almond with almond frosting - these were
absolutely delicious; apparently they had been designed
with a vanilla frosting in mind, but by happy accident
Lydia had reached for the almond bottle instead of the
vanilla;

She decided to make the cherry-almond because she found the almond
flavored frosting while emptying her fridge for the picnic use... it was
a previous mistake, which she decided happily to use in this way...

Same issue, different day?

Essentially... for a previous baking, she'd used the almond extract
before she'd realized it was the wrong bottle... and had intended in
that case to use the vanilla as she usually did for the frosting for the rolls... It was long enough ago that the almond flavored frosting
(which she did save, in case she found a use for it later) had migrated
to the back of the fridge... ;) She almost tossed it when she found it clearing the fridge for the picnic, but then happily, decided that it
was still fine, and she should use it on rolls baked for the picnic...

cinnamon-raisin, likewise excellent in an expected
cinnamon-bunny way but not too sweet as orthodox
cinnamon buns most often are;

Less sugar inside in the filling, and left to be made up for with the frosting (which usually would be vanilla)...

Well, that makes sense, doesn't it.

Yup... :)

lemon, a bit mild, also a bit wet inside; and

She mentioned that those hadn't turned out quite as she would have
liked.... I'm not sure quite what she meant, though...

It wasn't clear to me, either; lemon-flavored breads
aren't embedded in my consciousness, though.

As I think on it... I also recall that they were larger and puffier than normal... I think the issue may have been that she got distracted and
they rose too much after she'd filled them... that might have also
affected how the filling enteracted with the roll... :)

savory parmesan-garlic-herb, which were perfectly okay
but more of a dinner roll sort of thing;

That one is one of her standard ones, that she'll make for all
occasions.... :)

It seemed out of place along with the breakfasty
offerings, but in and of itself, it was fine. Less fine
when the leftovers were stored in the same container
with leftover sweet breads.

I hadn't paid attention to the leftovers... She has at least one other,
maybe more, versions of savory rollups, too...

(for the church dinner next day she also made maple pecan,
very nice, especially with the maple frosting she whipped
up to go with).

The maple frosting inspired by her fortuitous almond frosting finding...

A potentially fertile field for experimentation.

Indeed. :)

Buffalo flavor was at least as nasty as the review had said.
I detected a strong blue cheese odor and suggest that Dale's
review was too gentle on these things. Nobody liked these,
but someone who shall remain unremembered suggested using
them crunched up as a casserole topping.

I think that when Shirley tasted them the next day, she actually liked them... but she forgot to take them with her when they left... :)

More for you, heh. I'd have been torn, given my
dislike for wasting food. Perhaps in a chili casserole
for the next fellowship dinner. Or would that be throwing
good food after bad?

Depends on how much of the flavor remained dominant... if the chili
totally covered it, one might manage.... ;)

Red Hot were, everyone agreed, exactly as advertised. They
were a neutral, ordinary chip with a lurid red coating that
actually had substantial heat and not much else. I liked them.

I thought you were going to take those along for the trip... Steve took them, IIRC...

It's okay - we got Grandma Utz's on the way back -
at a Sheetz or Wawa where the Shipps also picked
up Lego candies for their daughter, who loves all
things Lego.

So you obviously did ok... ;)

Dole cherry fruit cup from I think Nancy was to me another
dud, the fruit (no apples or apple products) sweetened with
stevia and monkfruit and supposedly a natural alternative to
fruit cocktail in heavy syrup. I don't buy it and won't buy it.

I did indeed bring them... I'd been disappointed in them, and brought
them as tastings and as "youpeople food", figuring that Hafflys would probably take them off my hands... :)

I hope they weren't that desperate?

[shrug] They liked them well enough... although Ruth was going to give
all the cherries away to Steve.... they don't taste the stevia as
bitter, so........

Tasted to me like ordinary with what tasted like artificial
cherry (but turned out to be natural flavors) and with a
strong fake-sugar bitterness, which I hate, and I speak as
someone who used to suck saccharin tablets.

I always hated saccherin and then developed an allergy to it as well...
but I too, taste the bitterness of the stevia... two cups of the Dole on
two separate occasions was enough to convince me that those weren't for
my consumption... At least the stevia wasn't so pronounced in the baked goods Ruth has made with it... perhaps she uses less....

Combining fake and real sweeteners can be a decent
compromise.

True....

... Don't eat that. Studies prove it is hazardous to your health.

"Don't eat that. Studies prove it isn't hazardous to your health."

Are you saying that people would prefer to eat foods hazardous to their health....? ;)

ttyl neb

... Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

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