Shelby

No, just regular vegetable oil.

Baked 6 loaves of bread yesterday. Ran out of oomph, so 2 more to go today.

Not quite as easy as store bought dressing, but I use this mix from The Spice House. I keep a jar in the fridge at all times and it's never solidified on me.

Soooooooo, I am obsessed with these mushrooms lol. I cannot stop eating them. I made a jar for my brother and sister in law for their Christmas basket. Today I scored 6 more boxes of mushrooms for 99 cents a piece!!!

Wow! I've never seen it for sale before. A few years ago I had this happen to some of my garden corn. Like @IowaDee said, farmers here are horrified if it happens in the field corn. I really liked it--tasted like a corny mushroom.

Good grief, you guys are amazing. Now I want to make toffee. But, like Linda, you have already exhausted me and I just got up!

My mom and step dad sent us oysters!!!! So, oysters and fried shrimp last night.

I had that happen with a can of pineapple once. Or twice.

Ronnie got a few quail the other day so I roasted them in the CSO last night.

Thanks, but yes, they are sold out.

SHOOT! Sold out

Geez, I kind of forgot about it LOL! I did several early tastings--it was like fizzy grape juice. It's been in the garage fridge forever. I'll have to take a taste. I will report back. If I can type lol.

Chocolate sheetcake for my mother in law's birthday

I jumped in with both feet day before yesterday. Ronnie had meetings all day and evening so it was a good time to make a bunch of different cookie doughs. Yesterday, I baked them all. The goal was to get them done and packaged before my wonderful UPS man showed up--which is usually between 3 and 5. Thank goodness he was closer to 5 last night. Ya'll, cookies take longer than you think.........🍪 or probably, I'm just really slow 😁 Anyway, two new cookies: Snickerdoodle Party Cookies They are good. You get a crunch from the cornflakes and then a bit of chew from the Skor candy bars. I had trouble getting the flakes to stick to the cookie balls, but other than that, a pretty easy recipe. Next I did @Kim Shook's Supersized Ginger Chewies These are really good. I LOVE the gooey Sugar Babies that melt out of some. Then I made the Sparkle Cookies from last year And the Raspberry Almond Thumbprints from last year At this point I looked at the clock and decided I'd better get to packaging. Plus I still had to make a birthday cake for my mother-in-law.... So, I have the dough made, but I didn't bake Smitten Kitten's oatmeal raisin cookies. That will be either this afternoon or tomorrow. I don't know how you bakers and candy makers do it all. So exhausting lol.

Got all of our venison ground up into burger --so that always calls for meatloaf night After a very long day of baking yesterday, Ronnie grilled venison tenderloins last night. I could barely lift my fork to eat lol.

OHHHHH how did you like this cheese? I bought some from Zingerman's. LOVED IT. In fact, I just ordered more just a bit ago.

Those are beautiful. Also, how dare you. You already have wrapped presents under the tree. I am woefully behind.

Not a scratch, it feels completely smooth. I haven't washed them yet.

Mine got here today! The box was held together by a wing and a prayer lol, but they made it. These are just out of the box:

Chicken done in the Ninja

Got to play with the Ninja a bit last night. Did the water test first. Passed with flying colors. I found it very easy to use. Decided to do a chicken for dinner. My chicken was a bit smaller than the 4 1/2 to 5 lb. chicken that was used in the recipe book that came with the Ninja. I should have taken that into account and reduced the cooking time by a few minutes. Recipe said to do high pressure for 15 mins, quick release, brush chicken with oil and season with salt and pepper. Then you close the crisping lid, select AIR CRISP, 400F for 15 mins. The internal temp of the chicken was 165F or over by the time the 15 mins of AIR CRISP was up. I think it definitely needed another 5 mins at least to get the skin like I like it but I didn't want the chicken to be dry. Anyway, next time I'll do less initial pressure cook time so I can have more AIR CRISP time. All in all, very easy and very moist chicken. Now. Where am I going to store this big 'ole Ninja..........

Look what I found at the store today! I refuse to run out of Chris' mushrooms.

I'm not sure there is enough meat on there to be worth it......

Nope. I think Ronnie took the bacon off and grilled it for a bit and then put it back on. I like my steak so rare that the bacon never gets done enough for me.