Recipes

[ChiliPepper]

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@RespectLife wrote:

@VaBelle35

I've had the Laura Bush cookie recipe forever and haven't tried it yet!

Ina's recipe looks good too!  I notice she 'sifts'!

I always sift even if the recipe doesn't call for it but have been told I am wasting my time.

Do you sift your flour and dry ingredients when baking?

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@RespectLife

@VaBelle35

I do because I figure it sifts & mixes the ingredients at the same time.

I actually use a sifter like this, that puppy is old!!!

[RespectLife]

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@ChiliPepper wrote:

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@RespectLife wrote:

@VaBelle35

I've had the Laura Bush cookie recipe forever and haven't tried it yet!

Ina's recipe looks good too!  I notice she 'sifts'!

I always sift even if the recipe doesn't call for it but have been told I am wasting my time.

Do you sift your flour and dry ingredients when baking?

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@RespectLife

@VaBelle35

I do because I figure it sifts & mixes the ingredients at the same time.

I actually use a sifter like this, that puppy is old!!!

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@ChiliPepper wrote:

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@RespectLife wrote:

@VaBelle35

I've had the Laura Bush cookie recipe forever and haven't tried it yet!

Ina's recipe looks good too!  I notice she 'sifts'!

I always sift even if the recipe doesn't call for it but have been told I am wasting my time.

Do you sift your flour and dry ingredients when baking?

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@RespectLife

@VaBelle35

I do because I figure it sifts & mixes the ingredients at the same time.

I actually use a sifter like this, that puppy is old!!!

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LOL @ChiliPepper

I went and bought a new version of that exact sifter!  It was kinda hard to find!  Had to order it.  Bought 2 pieces of junk from BBB that broke fast and returned them.  Ordered this guy minus the rust!  LOL

The crank was the best design.  The others...you squeezed the handle in and out.  Not only was it hard on the hands...but that is the area that the spring boinked out both times it broke!

Prior I was using a sieve...and making a major mess all the time!

I use a lot of cocoa which is always lumpy so I got in the habit of sifting all the dry guys.

Does it make a difference?  DUNNO!  LOL

[ChiliPepper]

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@RespectLife wrote:

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@ChiliPepper wrote:

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@RespectLife wrote:

@VaBelle35

I've had the Laura Bush cookie recipe forever and haven't tried it yet!

Ina's recipe looks good too!  I notice she 'sifts'!

I always sift even if the recipe doesn't call for it but have been told I am wasting my time.

Do you sift your flour and dry ingredients when baking?

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@RespectLife

@VaBelle35

I do because I figure it sifts & mixes the ingredients at the same time.

I actually use a sifter like this, that puppy is old!!!

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LOL @ChiliPepper

I went and bought a new version of that exact sifter!  It was kinda hard to find!  Had to order it.  Bought 2 pieces of junk from BBB that broke fast and returned them.  Ordered this guy minus the rust!  LOL

The crank was the best design.  The others...you squeezed the handle in and out.  Not only was it hard on the hands...but that is the area that the spring boinked out both times it broke!

Prior I was using a sieve...and making a major mess all the time!

I use a lot of cocoa which is always lumpy so I got in the habit of sifting all the dry guys.

Does it make a difference?  DUNNO!  LOL

@RespectLife

I think it makes a difference.

These little whirly-gigs break up any lumps like a charm.

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[RespectLife]

Yup @ChiliPepper

That's my exact sifter!  I remember my Home Ec teacher drilling it into us to always sift and always break our eggs into a monkey dish (little clear pyrex bowl).

I actually still do THAT cuz I am a terrible egg cracker!  This way I can fish my shells out before it hits the other ingredients!

DH and I both worked at Perkins for a long time and we called them monkey dishes there too.  Why?  Again, DUNNO!  LOL

[momtochloe]

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@RespectLife wrote:

@momtochloe

I know ya wanna go, sweetie, but don't go too low!  Don't let your eagerness undercut your profits!

My sis was in such a hurry to leave for NJ after my BIL died, she sold the house in a couple days.

Less than 2 years later, it was sold for $60K more than they paid her!  Our housing market has remained the SAME for years.  We don't fluctuate with highs and lows in western New York.

She sold too low!!  The extra funds would have gone a long way in her move to NJ.

By time you pay the closing costs and the realtor fee...yowza!  BIG chunk gone!

Hopefully, your friend will be honest with you and not be in a hurry for his commission!

You ultimately want to have financial freedom or breathing room in your move!  Take that burden off but take a fair market value price!

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Thanks @RespectLife but I think things are going to be great!  Vince just left and we worked through a couple of different scenarios financially and I should be able to sell the house and buy a two bedroom condo with underground parking and still have money left over (plus he thinks he can get me a job with a lawyer friend of his).  I am completely fine with the price he wants to list at as it's 20k more than what I paid for it.  There will be no sign up that the house is for sale nor will there be any open houses since I live alone.  Today just could not have gone better, I feel so much better about everything . . .

Thanks to everyone for their thoughts and kind words, yay!  

[Honeybit]

@ChiliPepper    @RespectLife

LOL 2 -- I have that exact same sifter that was my mother's and the exact same experience with trying to buy something newer and larger.  That "squeeze the handle" version was murder on the hand and didn't do a particularly good job either.  I've wondered a lot of times how many hundreds of pounds of flour have passed through that little sifter over the years -- my mom put a lot of good food on the table with a beat up saucepan, a Pyrex measuring cup, and one set of measuring spoons.  I wonder what she might have made with access to all the kitchen gadgets we "can't do without" these days ????  (She never had an automatic dishwasher either, but my dad washed a lot of dishes because he felt it was "only fair" since she did the cooking.)

Lots of good recipes this morning / afternoon -- thanks to all.  I think somebody brought that exact same dessert cheese ball to the New Year's Eve get-together I went to.  I know it had the sprinkles and the chocolate chips -- I had always wondered how those sweet cheese balls would taste.  You're exactly right -- it DID look like food the cat might have rejected, especially after it was cut (and mashed) a couple of times!

Also, lots of good posters and inspiratiion, although my favorite is the "Before you go into the kitchen, I love you."  Too true, too funny (even though our fur-friends never lie about love, they do believe in reminders).

[momtochloe]

I bought my mom a battery operated flour sifter and she loved it:

Easy on the hands and they work great!  

[ChiliPepper]

@Honeybit

@RespectLife

@momtochloe

This is what I find in the bathroom if I'm not careful LOL!!

Actually, looks a lot like my sweetie but my sweetie doesn't have a tail!

[Honeybit]

@momtochloe

Do you know how many square feet your current house totals?  I'm always conscious of floor plan size ever since I went through building my house, but I've found most people don't have any idea what theirs is.  I'll be sending good thoughts your way (prayers, too) as you go through the selling process.

There's a young-ish couple in our church who bought a "house-in-a-hurry" -- the owner was a builder who had done a subdivision on the land around his house and when he got ready to move, he told his realtor he wanted to be out in a month. When she protested about the time frame, he told her she didn't understand -- he didn't care how much she got, he just wanted to be GONE.  I have never seen such a house -- it had an eight-car garage, 27 outside doors, and an indoor swimming pool (which had been filled in because it leaked).  The place looked like a conference center instead of a dwelling, yet it was surrounded by ordinary subdivision-sized houses.

She was a CPA and said they had been praying for a house they could afford which had no stairs so it would be convenient for all of her elderly clients to get to her home office.  Her husband said when it came to answering prayers, "sometimes God just likes to show out."  

[Honeybit]

@ChiliPepper  

Love it -- someone I worked with owned a toy poodle who, when left alone, would go into every bathroom and get hold of the end of the toilet paper and unroll it all over the house as far as it would roll.  If the paper broke, she would go back and start over with the rest of it.  I'm not sure if they would roll it all back up again, but they never closed the bathroom doors because they wanted her to be able to entertain herself while they were gone.