Bumping my question

Panther in the Den wrote:In this time of virtual gathering how does the exchange actually work?

Mail?

Thanks in advance!

Panther in the Den wrote:...
In this time of virtual gathering how does the exchange actually work?

Mail?

Thanks in advance!

pairs4life wrote:Feel free to make whatever dessert you like. In the past, some participants have been vegetarians and/or those who don't drink alcohol, just advise if your dessert includes those ingredients and since we can't taste it please provide the recipe for your dessert.

The GP wrote:

Panther in the Den wrote:...
In this time of virtual gathering how does the exchange actually work?

Mail?

Thanks in advance!

pairs4life wrote:Feel free to make whatever dessert you like. In the past, some participants have been vegetarians and/or those who don't drink alcohol, just advise if your dessert includes those ingredients and since we can't taste it please provide the recipe for your dessert.

Thanks!

Glazed Lemon Cookies

Ingredients
* 2 cups flour
* 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
* 1/2 teaspoon salt
* 1 tablespoon grated lemon zest
* 2 tablespoons lemon juice
* 1/2 cup butter, room temperature
* 1 cup sugar
* 1 egg
* 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
* Lemon Glaze (next recipe)

Directions
Whisk together flour, baking soda, salt, and lemon zest and set aside

Hand blender butter and sugar until light and fluffy.

Add egg, vanilla, and lemon juice

Add flour mixture

Bake a heaping tablespoons worth at 350 for 20 minutes

Top with glaze

Lemon Glaze

Ingredients
* 2 cups confectioners' sugar
* 2 tablespoons grated lemon zest
* 1/3 cup fresh lemon juice

Mix

I used half the amount of regular sugar in the glaze. They came out sparkly.

Banana Walnut Bread

Ingredients
1 1/4 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 eggs, at room temperature
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup butter, at room temperature
1 cup sugar
3 very ripe bananas, mashed
1/2 cup toasted walnut pieces

Directions
Whisk the flour, baking soda, and salt and set aside

Electric hand mixer the butter and sugar

Add eggs and vanilla

Add the bananas

With a rubber spatula, mix in the flour mixture

Add nuts

Transfer the batter to the pan and bake for 55 minutes at 350

justjoan wrote:ava, i just noticed you're considering facebook for the chat. can you PLEASE use another platform? i won't go on facebook website. it's a noxious and disturbing influence on our world and i won't support/participate in it. thanks

Joan,

There are generally pros and cons to most things particularly a ramp up on the use of tech.

You don't like Facebook. I prefer Facebook to Zoom.

Video Meeting Platform Zoom Addresses Criticisms As It Sees Explosive Growth In Users

Dennis Johnson fell victim last week to a new form of harassment known as "Zoombombing," in which intruders hijack video calls and post hate speech and offensive images such as pornography. It's a phenomenon so alarming that the FBI has issued a warning about using Zoom.

Like many people these days, Johnson is doing a lot of things over the Internet that he would normally do in person. Last week, he defended his doctoral dissertation in a Zoom videoconference.

He had a big audience — he estimated it was about 40 people, including "my closest friends, family and my classmates and my dissertation committee" at California State University, Long Beach, he said.

Johnson is the first member of his family to graduate from college, let alone get a doctorate. He wanted to share the moment with them.

He said he was in the middle of presenting when someone started drawing male genitalia on the screen. At first, Johnson said, he was not sure what was happening.

"I'm like, 'Whoa!' And then I freeze, and everyone who's watching the screen freezes," he said.

It got worse. The attacker scrawled a racial slur that everyone on the Zoom call could see.

https://www.npr.org/2020/04/03/82612952 ... sKtpeDHPoo

I will see you Sunday.

Cheers,

LauraS wrote:Hi all! I'm so excited that there are so many of us! I will be setting up a Zoom meeting for the exchange. Look for a PM soon with the details on how to join. If you haven't done Zoom yet, it's really easy to use.

Is your Zoom account an upgraded account? It looks like the basic account has a 40 minute time limit for a larger meeting.

HI,

When I first had internet access, a neighbor's child came over for a visit. He asked to use my computer, which I stupidly agreed to. He then found a women's knitting chat site that was in full conversation. That little brat began making comments out of character to what was going on. He never had access to my computer again.

I am a new Zoom client. I can see how it works rather well. I have been reading best practices to help thwart this. For LTH land, this is far easier than what I encounter for Highland Park Historical Society, Culinary History friends or my Mushroom club. For LTH, it will be easy to pick out an outlier who drops in. For the other groups, not so easy because information is broadcast via email and anyone interested via the internet, needs to contact me for a link. I know faces, I know some names, but will have no clues often via email address.

I watch a regularly broadcast live weather report on facebook. You cannot interact directly, except by posting questions on the comment section.

On Zoom, I have been in meetings this week with 9 and 69 participants. There was a lively dialogue impossible to do via facebook.

A friend was at a virtual meeting at Fermilab, which concluded and suddenly the white board was hijacked. They just shut it down.

Regards,
Cathy2

shorty wrote:

LauraS wrote:Hi all! I'm so excited that there are so many of us! I will be setting up a Zoom meeting for the exchange. Look for a PM soon with the details on how to join. If you haven't done Zoom yet, it's really easy to use.

Is your Zoom account an upgraded account? It looks like the basic account has a 40 minute time limit for a larger meeting.

I have been to board meetings with this plan. Everyone was prepared to log off and log back on. Meanwhile, Zoom sent a note to the host they could continue interacting past the 40 minute mark.

It is workable.

Cathy2

I believe that Zoom is giving everyone longer than 40 minutes.

Cathy2 wrote:HI,

When I first had internet access, a neighbor's child came over for a visit. He asked to use my computer, which I stupidly agreed to. He then found a women's knitting chat site that was in full conversation. That little brat began making comments out of character to what was going on. He never had access to my computer again.

I am a new Zoom client. I can see how it works rather well. I have been reading best practices to help thwart this. For LTH land, this is far easier than what I encounter for Highland Park Historical Society, Culinary History friends or my Mushroom club. For LTH, it will be easy to pick out an outlier who drops in. For the other groups, not so easy because information is broadcast via email and anyone interested via the internet, needs to contact me for a link. I know faces, I know some names, but will have no clues often via email address.

I watch a regularly broadcast live weather report on facebook. You cannot interact directly, except by posting questions on the comment section.

On Zoom, I have been in meetings this week with 9 and 69 participants. There was a lively dialogue impossible to do via facebook.

A friend was at a virtual meeting at Fermilab, which concluded and suddenly the white board was hijacked. They just shut it down.

Regards,
Cathy2

Cathy I did lunch with colleagues on Facebook. Facebook chat permits video chatting w/o a timeline (we did 2 + hours last week in a single session) for up to 50 folks. We were a scant 7 but I would certainly do it again.

It is Zoom this weekend but I am disinclined to make this my go-to until the FBI says it's okay.

Hi,

I appears many of the issues were related to how the linking information was distributed.

Regards,
Cathy2

shorty wrote:

LauraS wrote:Hi all! I'm so excited that there are so many of us! I will be setting up a Zoom meeting for the exchange. Look for a PM soon with the details on how to join. If you haven't done Zoom yet, it's really easy to use.

Is your Zoom account an upgraded account? It looks like the basic account has a 40 minute time limit for a larger meeting.

I'm not sure what their policy is for everyone now, but I'm a teacher so my time limit for my account has been waived.

pairs4life wrote:

justjoan wrote:ava, i just noticed you're considering facebook for the chat. can you PLEASE use another platform? i won't go on facebook website. it's a noxious and disturbing influence on our world and i won't support/participate in it. thanks

Joan,

There are generally pros and cons to most things particularly a ramp up on the use of tech.

You don't like Facebook. I prefer Facebook to Zoom.

Video Meeting Platform Zoom Addresses Criticisms As It Sees Explosive Growth In Users

Dennis Johnson fell victim last week to a new form of harassment known as "Zoombombing," in which intruders hijack video calls and post hate speech and offensive images such as pornography. It's a phenomenon so alarming that the FBI has issued a warning about using Zoom.

Like many people these days, Johnson is doing a lot of things over the Internet that he would normally do in person. Last week, he defended his doctoral dissertation in a Zoom videoconference.

He had a big audience — he estimated it was about 40 people, including "my closest friends, family and my classmates and my dissertation committee" at California State University, Long Beach, he said.

Johnson is the first member of his family to graduate from college, let alone get a doctorate. He wanted to share the moment with them.

He said he was in the middle of presenting when someone started drawing male genitalia on the screen. At first, Johnson said, he was not sure what was happening.

"I'm like, 'Whoa!' And then I freeze, and everyone who's watching the screen freezes," he said.

It got worse. The attacker scrawled a racial slur that everyone on the Zoom call could see.

https://www.npr.org/2020/04/03/82612952 ... sKtpeDHPoo

I will see you Sunday.

Cheers,

One way we can try to avoid this is to make an automatic waiting room. If anyone tries to join the meeting, they will be placed in a virtual waiting room and won't be able to join until I admit them.

LauraS wrote:One way we can try to avoid this is to make an automatic waiting room. If anyone tries to join the meeting, they will be placed in a virtual waiting room and won't be able to join until I admit them.

This is a relatively small group with people who mostly know each other.

It is large meetings with many strangers where an outlier can appear undetected.

How to Keep Uninvited Guests Out of Your Zoom Event --- most of it came down to not posting the link in public forums.

Regards,
Cathy2

These are box cookies, because I have long wanted to get it off my shelf. If freshness issues are a big deal, then be glad we have social distancing gathering. This box of cookies were likely produced during the Obama administration.

See you in a few hours!

It’s pie o’clock somewhere. Home roasted & rested coffee+ The Motor City’s Homemade Salted Maple Pie recipe from Sister Pie cooling.

Recipe can be found here.

I did not use Sister Pie's pie dough. I had Stella Park's pie dough shaped in a pie tin in my freezer already. Park's dough is my current favorite for pies.

i made a chocolate steamed cake, a first time for me steaming a cake. it's from the first Milk Street cookbook "new home cooking". it's steamed in a dutch oven on the stove. very cool. a great way to bake on a hot day... and this could be my first time posting a picture, too. but i can't get it to work. i signed up for flickr so i could load the picture, but i can't find the necessary URL to enter here... i know to click above on IMG, go to flickr and select the pic, but i see no URL. help? this could be a BIG day for me, my first LTH picture...

Today I made Joel's brownie recipe he first learned when he did home ec in middle school. His mom used the reciped for years and passed it on to me once we were married. When the kids were younger, I made it so often I knew the recipe by heart. Today, I actually pulled the recipe out and double checked to make sure I remembered everything. It is a small batch, which is perfect for us and is really a reminder of better time which is perfect for a day like today. Here is the recipe:
Joel's Middle School Brownies
2 oz unsweetened chocolate
1/3 cup butter
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1/2 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
2/3 cup flour
optional 1/2 cup of nuts (in our family, nuts are not preferred so I usually just add chocolate chips, or even more often a mixture of chocolate chips and butterscotch chips, or sometimes cocoa nibs.

Use a greased 8 X 8 pan (or we have all used a 8 X 11 1/2 which makes them thinner)

Heat oven to 350
Melt together butter and chocolate.
Stir in all the other ingredients
Spread into a pan and bake for 30 min (that is the original from the 8X8 recipe - I usually do about 20 min in the larger pan)

justjoan wrote:chocolated steamed cake, a first time for me steaming a cake. and this could be my first time posting a picture, too. but i can't get it to work. i signed up for flickr so i could load the picture, but i can't find the necessary URL to enter here... i know to click above on IMG, go to flickr and select the pic, but i see no URL. help? this could be a BIG day for me, my first LTH picture...

Joan,

Once you have the URL from flickr -- which must contain no spaces and end in .jpg for it to correctly display here -- you then post it here, as such, for it to display . . .

Code: Select all

[img]justjoan'simage.jpg[/img]

That should do it. If that doesn't work, please let me know. Worst case, you can email me the picture and I'll send you back a url that you can put in your post.

Thanks,

=R=

I chose to make the turtle cupcake recipe from this website https://alldayidreamaboutfood.com/keto-turtle-cupcakes/

It’s keto and Diabetic friendly

It’s pie time! (Isn’t it always?) Got to make room for a new crop in the freezer.

Crust: 1/2 c. Unsalted butter
1 c. All-purpose flour
1/2 t. Salt
3-4 T. Water (just enough so dough will cling together in ball)

Cut butter into flour and salt. Add water and mix with knife or fork just until it holds together. Roll out on floured surface into thin disk. Fit into 8” pie pan; cut off overhang. Fill with about 4 c. Chopped rhubarb. Over it, pour mix of 1-1/3-1/2/3 c. Sugar (depending on how sweet you like it) with 1/3 c. Flour, 1/2 t. Allspice, 1/4 t. Cinnamon, and 1/4 t. Cloves. Dot with about 2 T. Butter. Roll out remainder of dough into another thin disk and place on top; cut vents. Bake at 425 F for 40 minutes.

ronnie_suburban wrote:

justjoan wrote:chocolated steamed cake, a first time for me steaming a cake. and this could be my first time posting a picture, too. but i can't get it to work. i signed up for flickr so i could load the picture, but i can't find the necessary URL to enter here... i know to click above on IMG, go to flickr and select the pic, but i see no URL. help? this could be a BIG day for me, my first LTH picture...

Joan,

Once you have the URL from flickr -- which must contain no spaces and end in .jpg for it to correctly display here -- you then post it here, as such, for it to display . . .

Code: Select all

[img]justjoan'simage.jpg[/img]

That should do it. If that doesn't work, please let me know. Worst case, you can email me the picture and I'll send you back a url that you can put in your post.

Thanks,

=R=

thanks, this was a mistake- i'm too busy right now to try to solve this. i'm making face masks and i need to get a dozen done before our online meeting. i may ask for your help another time....

One more , it makes 9

My bake today - Apfelkuchen (from Milk Street Nov-Dec 2019)

Ingredients: 130 grams (1 cup) All Purpose Flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
214 grams (1 cup) white sugar, plus 2 TBSP for sprinkling
4 ounces Almond Paste, broken into roughly half inch pieces
1/2 tsp kosher salt
8 TBSP (1 stick) salted butter, cool room temp
3 large eggs, room temperature
2 tsp vanilla extract
2 small Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored and halved lengthwise

Preheat oven to 375 F
Butter 9” Springform pan and dust with flour

In small bowl, whisk 1 cup flour and 1 1/2 tsp baking powder

In bowl of Stand Mixer with paddle attachment, add 1 cup sugar, 4 oz Almond Paste and 1/2 tsp kosher salt and mix on medium-low until crumbly (2-3 minutes)
Add butter and mix until combined (~30 seconds).
Increase speed to medium-high and beat until mixture is pale and fluffy(about 3 minutes).
Reduce to medium and add eggs 1 at a time, beating for about 20 seconds after each.
Scrape down the bowl, then add vanilla and continue mixing until well combined (about 2 minutes).

Reduce speed to low and add flour mixture and mix about 20 seconds until batter is evenly moistened.

Transfer to prepared pan and spread in an even and smooth layer.

Slice each peeled and cored apple half into 1/8” slices and fan the slices (pressing gently with your hand) Divide into 8 equal portions and place on the cake. Sprinkle top with remaining 2 TBSP sugar.

Bake until the edges of the cake are deep golden brown and a toothpick insert comes out clean. (50-60 minutes)

Serve warm or at room temperature. Dust with powdered sugar if desired.

Simmie22 wrote:My bake today - Apfelkuchen (from Milk Street Nov-Dec 2019)

Don’t forget to post your pic!!!

I was feeling in a citrusy mood so I decided to combine two Melissa Clark recipes, one for Blood orange upside down cake (steps 1-3) and the other for Campari citrus & Olive Oil Cake.

INGREDIENTS:
For UPSIDE CAKE:
270 grams unsalted butter (2 sticks plus 3 tablespoons), at room temperature
130 grams light brown sugar (about 2/3 cup)
2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
2 medium-sized blood oranges

For Campari Cake:
1/4 cup/55 grams unsalted butter (1/2 stick), melted, plus more for greasing the pan
2 cups/255 grams all-purpose flour
1 2/3 cups/330 grams granulated sugar
1 teaspoon fine sea salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
2/3 cup/160 milliliters whole milk
2/3 cup/160 milliliters mild olive oil
3 large eggs
1/3 cup/80 milliliters Campari
1 tablespoon grated grapefruit zest
1 tablespoon grated orange zest
1 teaspoon grated lemon zest
1/4 cup/60 milliliters fresh grapefruit juice
2 tablespoons fresh orange juice
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
Whipped crème fraîche or whipped cream, sweetened or not as you like, for serving

DIRECTIONS:
From Upside Down Cake:
Step 1
Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9-inch round cake pan.
Step 2
In a small saucepan over medium heat, melt 3 tablespoons (45 grams) butter. Add the brown sugar and lemon juice; stir until sugar melts, about 3 minutes. Scrape mixture into bottom of prepared pan.
Step 3
Grate ½ teaspoon zest from one of the oranges, then slice off the tops and bottoms of both oranges. Place oranges on a clean, flat surface, and slice away the rind and pith, top to bottom, following the curve of the fruit. Slice each orange crosswise into ¼-inch-thick wheels; discard any seeds. Arrange orange wheels on top of brown sugar mixture in a single, tight layer.

FROM CAMPARI CAKE:
Step 1
Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9-inch springform pan, and line the bottom with parchment paper. (You can use a regular 9-inch cake pan that is at least 2 inches deep, but the cake will be harder to unmold.)
Step 2
In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, salt, baking powder and baking soda. In a large bowl, whisk together butter, milk, oil, eggs, Campari, citrus zests, and citrus juices. Fold in the dry ingredients, then scrape the batter into the prepared pan.
Step 3
Bake until the top is golden and springs back when lightly pressed in the center, 45 minutes to 1 hour. (A cake tester might emerge with a few crumbs, which is OK.)
Step 4
Let the cake cool completely in the pan. Then run a butter knife around the edges and release the sides. NOTE: After the cake cools, invert on a cake plate and peel off the parchment to showcase the blood orange slices

Serve with dollops of whipped cream or whipped crème fraîche. I added orange zest to my whipped cream.
This cake is best served on the same day that it’s baked. (Although lots of the NYTimes comments say it gets even better the day or two after...)

Link to my recipe:

https://www.thekitchn.com/mahogany-choc ... ake-265853

lougord99 wrote:I believe that Zoom is giving everyone longer than 40 minutes.

I do not think that is true. The Free Zoom accounts have a time limit. Those of us with upgraded paid for accounts have a few more bells and whistles and extended time. @LauraS has an account with a longer time limit so we should be good today.

I am making dairy-free cream puffs. There will be strawberry and traditional dipped in chocolate ganache. I am waiting until the last minute to put them together, so will post a photo later. Based on this recipe: https://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/strawberry-cream-puffs

Since I was cleaning out the fridge, half were made with pastry cream made from coconut milk egg nog. The other half were made using almond cashew milk. Those were topped with traditional ganache as they would be eaten by other family members on dairy. The two with the non-shiny ganache were made with non-dairy chips and soy creamer.

I didn't use the tarragon in the strawberries because I don't care for it. Would have used fresh basil if I had it on hand. I wouldn't use the baking instructions for this recipe again. I had to bake much longer and they didn't get crisp enough. The 250 degree oven was too low.

Also baked Honey Wheat Pull-Apart Rolls for dinner. These were wonderful. https://www.cookinglight.com/recipes/honey-whole-wheat-pull-apart-rolls .

I baked two items.

Miso chocolate chip cookies (https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/katie-lee/secret-ingredient-miso-chocolate-chip-cookies-7088935):

I substituted half the flour with white whole wheat flour since I ran out of all-purpose flour. I substituted chopped up 72% dark chocolate for the semisweet chocolate chips. In retrospect, the cookies would have been better with the semisweet chocolate chips because they needed the extra sugar. The texture of the cookie was cakey -- similar to a pumpkin cookie.

Chocolate Banana Bread (https://www.twopeasandtheirpod.com/chocolate-banana-bread/)


Since I had white miso paste, I thought why not try to use it in a dessert. The miso chocolate chip cookies ended up tasting savory and salty. I am not used to eating cookies which are on the savory side. I prefer to use the white miso paste for vegetable dishes and cooking salmon.

I made a chocolate banana bread since I was looking for a recipe that used Dutch process cocoa. The banana bread was very moist and was more like a blackout cake.

Chocolate, Prune & Whiskey Cake (Claire Ptak, The Violet Bakery Cookbook)

Makes one 20 to 23-cm (8 to 9-inch) cake, which serves 6 to 8

Ingredients
• 125g (4 1/2 ounces) pitted prunes
• 40g (3 tablespoons) Irish whiskey [Note: Ava suggests substituting Lapsang Souchong tea for non-alcoholic version]
• 240g (8 1/2 ounces) dark chocolate (70% cocoa solids), chopped into small pieces
• 200 g (3/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons) unsalted butter, plus more for greasing the pan
• 5 eggs, separated
• 100g (1/2 cup) sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon sea salt
• 150g (1 1/3 cup) ground almonds

Instructions
1. Soak the prunes in the whiskey. If you can do this the night before, all the better.
2. Preheat the oven to 180°C/355°F (160°C/320°F convection). Butter a 20 to 23 cm. (8 to 9-inch) cake pan and line with baking paper.
3. Put the dark chocolate and butter in a heatproof bowl and place over a pan of barely
simmering water. Make sure the water does not touch the bottom of the bowl or it may spoil the chocolate. Stir occasionally to emulsify the butter and chocolate. Once the chocolate has melted, take the pan off the heat to cool slightly but keep away from any drafts.
4. Put the whites and yolks into two separate bowls and, starting with the yolks, add half of the sugar and whisk to thicken. Fold the thickened yolks into the melted chocolate, and set aside. Chop the prunes into eighths and add to the chocolate mixture along with the ground almonds.
5. Beat the egg whites with the remaining sugar and the sea salt until soft peaks form. Fold into the chocolate mixture just until incorporated. Pour into the prepared cake pan and bake for 30 to 35 minutes. The cake will be slightly soft in the middle, but do not overbake it or the gooeyness will be lost.
6. Serve warm or at room temperature.