Kim Shook

Welcome, Jack! Glad to have you here!

Only the marinated ones. The kosher dills are just Mt. Olive. The marinated cukes have vinegar, sugar, onions and pepper and here's the recipe for what I call "cheaters". Thanks!

Cleaning out the freezer dinner. Newman’s Own pizza: Trader Joe's chicken soup dumplings: These tasted good, but weren’t terribly soupy. Caesar salad: Pickly stuff: Kosher dills, cheater sweet dills and marinated cukes.

@kayb and @Shelby - So glad these are appealing to you! They are really, really good. Two things to know. Make sure to not overcook them - they should be fairly soft out of the oven. Also - you can make these messy or you can make them neat. If you don't care what they look like, mix the Sugar Babies in and bake. They will melt and the ones near the edges will spill out over the edges and make these lacy little crisp caramel ruffles. We count these as a delicious little treat. If you want them neat (which I did for the bake sale), you can just press a couple of the Sugar Babies into the cookies before putting in the oven. For that matter, you could probably place them on top of the soft cookie when it comes out of the oven - like you do Hershey Kisses in PB blossoms. And, I always find my Sugar Babies at Dollar Tree, if that helps.

More church bake sale stuff for the freezer - Ginger Chewies with Sugar Babies: Lois' Best Coffee Cake: Old standby @maggiethecat recipe.

Leftover turkey and long grain & wild rice soup. Found the recipe on the Uncle Ben’s website. If I’d made the soup following the recipe exactly, it would have been some sad soup. But I had my good turkey stock and I added some seasonings and herbs. Turned out to be very good.

Once every 3 or 4 months, I have to have a Beef and Cheddar. The combination of the ersatz beef, ersatz cheese, soft onion roll and loads of "Horsey Sauce" is an occasional guilty pleasure.😏

These are brilliant! What great ideas for a party. If I thought that more than 4 people who come to my house for Xmas Eve would eat these, they'd go on my menu tonight!

@Dave the Cook - thanks for taking the time to write that! I share your thoughts and opinions of this "reload" and would have liked to see a real effort on his and FN's part to actually DO what they said they were going to do with this show.

Hello and welcome to eG! I think you will find lots of folks here who share your interests! Looking forward to your posts - and those waffles look wonderful!

Mr. Kim came home from a breakfast meeting this morning with leftover bacon (??????):

Sounds like a PITA to make it come out right and I suspect it would be difficult to avoid the panko coating from getting soggy down in the bottom of the slit.

Welcome! I was a longtime lurker, too! I'm glad you finally took the plunge! Looking forward to your input.

More church bake sale stuff – Chocolate Mocha cookies: Dream cookies: I've I'm sure I've talked about these before. They are the favorite cookies in our home. They look like nothing, but are absolutely delectable - VERY buttery and crisp. Almost like a thin shortbread. I've been making them since I was a little girl.

I needed space in the freezer for church bake sale stuff, so we took a turkey out that we’d bought a couple of months ago. It finally thawed yesterday, so I threw together a turkey dinner. Roasted turkey: I can’t remember the last time I actually roasted a whole turkey in the oven. Usually I do breasts in the slow cooker or whole turkeys in the Nesco. It turned out quite well – a tiny bit overdone (should have temped it earlier), but tasty and moist: Tossed together dressing mix: I baked a cake of cornbread, used a half bag of Pepperidge Farm stuffing mix I had in the pantry and finally, when it didn’t look like enough bread, tore up a few leftover biscuits from Bojangles. Added some sautéed celery and carrots, Bell’s seasoning and a little turkey stock. Baked for an hour, it turned out very well: (I should have added an egg or two). Canned cranberry sauce from when we cleaned out my mom’s pantry to move her over here: Can ridges WERE visible. 😁 Grocery store yeast rolls: The thing that pulled it all together: The Gravy! Plated: With purchased mashed potatoes, butter beans and leftover slaw (the last was Mr. Kim’s non-starch suggestion🙄). With gravy: And for dinner tonight, what every turkey dreams of becoming: Hot turkey and dressing open faced sandwich with mashed potatoes behind.

There seems to be little bits of suspicious green things on that otherwise delicious looking pizza. 😉

Jeez. Louise!!! Just went and looked at the website. Out of my league for sure! Gorgeous, though.

I love your wooden bowls! They look old - have you had them a long time?

Last thing out of the oven tonight: or White chocolate cranberry bread with white chocolate chips and fresh cranberries. Cooling now. I hope this stuff sells. Last year was weird - no one bought cupcakes or muffins, but the coffee cakes and quick breads sold out. So I'm making lots of that kind of stuff and a few kinds of cookies.

Starting to stock the freezer for the bake sale I manage every year for our church Holiday Market. Pineapple Upside Down Biscuits: These are made with whomp biscuits - they aren't cakey, more like a sweetish roll. Nice with baked ham. Cinnamon Sugar Pull Apart Loaves: Think monkey bread. Also made with whomp biscuits. Hey, I'm making a TON of stuff - I gotta take shortcuts where I can.

I've sent you a PM, @Pete Fred. Hope it helps your problems with the strudel!

Gak.

I didn't. I assume that mine is already seasoned by years of use. I looked online and found lots of varied information about seasoning, but they were referring to "aluminum" and I couldn't tell if they were talking about CAST aluminum or just plain aluminum pans. Advice??

Welcome, @sbain! You should find all the help you need here. Your candies are gorgeous!

Welcome, CP! Glad you found us. There are lots of talented candy makers here (I am not one of them)! Enjoy!