Subj : Pie Crust To : Ben Collver From : Ruth Haffly Date : Wed Dec 24 2025 02:49 pm Hi Ben, RH> We had a bit of left over pie RH> crust after trimming the top so today Steve made mini cinnamon rolls--roll RH> out the crust, sprinkle it with cinnamon sugar, roll up and cut into 1" RH> pieces and bake. His mom did it so he taught me to do it years ago. BC> That sounds good to me. Back in the day i used to go to a pizza BC> buffet that also included cinnamon rolls made just the way i like BC> them. Soft, buttery, yeasty, and innundated with brown sugary BC> cinnamon "syrup". I BC> don't seek out such sweets now, but i definitely eat them if offered. BC> :) Every so often we'll buy a tube of Annie's cinnamon rolls and bake them up. It started about 10 years ago when we got our first camper; Steve was on an R-Pod forum and (I don't know how) the thread was brought up that you have to try making cinnamon rolls in the micro/convection oven. So, he did so, and we've done so on various trips, even with the regular oven in the new camper. Don't know how they measure up to what you had but it's a nice change of pace breakfast for us. I generally will only have half a roll at a time because they are big. RH> It all sounded good except for the espresso. I'm not (never was, never RH> will be) a coffee drinker. I'd have probably had a cuppa tea instead. (G) BC> I normally don't drink espresso either, but i felt like i needed it BC> that morning. My sister made it a little on the weak side, which was BC> probably just right for me at that time. I just can't drink a cup of coffee, even with milk and sugar. The first couple years we were married, we lived in an apartment in a converted hotel--the rooms had 10' ceilings. We ran out of gas one night of the first December, noticed it just after 5pm. Called the gas company; they said they don't deliver after 5. The building manager loaned us an electric heater for the night and I made a pot of coffee (electric percolator). Tried to drink it to warm up but don't think I drank half of it. Gas was delivered the next morning so I could have my morning cuppa tea. RH> Sounds good. I used my 12 qt stock pot for the pea soup we made recently RH> and the 8 qt stock pot for the goulash soup--both were too large a RH> quantity to fit into my crock pot. BC> Split pea soup is my favorite. Which would you say is yours? That's probably my favorite legume soup but a good bowl of goulash soup is hard to beat. This last pot I made was probably the best I've ever done with the different tweaks I did. BC> I made another lentil soup, this time with a large can of Progresso BC> "pot roast" soup as the base, with onions, carrots, potatoes, garlic, BC> two bay leaves, home grown rosemary, and water. I am happy with how BC> it turned out. Tastes like real food. Sounds like you would need a fork to eat it. (G) RH> Steve makes a small (7") one in the Instant Pot RH> and always adds extra chocolate. Extra rich, extra good so a small wedge RH> will be sufficient. BC> Huh, i didn't know you could make cheesecake in an instant pot. That BC> sounds good. I am imagining a hardened layer of chocolate on top of BC> the cheesecake, giving it a candy finish. The chocolate is mixed thru. The recipe comes from "The Great Big Pressure Cooker Book" by Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough. Subtitle is "500 Easy Recipies For Every Machine, Both Stovetop and Electric". We've also made the maple cheesecake and chicken caccitori from the book, planning on trying some of the other recipies soon. BC> I don't celebrate Christmas and never have. My classmates assumed it BC> meant i was a Jehova's Witness. I'm not that, nor Jewish, but it is BC> legacy from my folks religious objections, who skipped Christmas BC> because of its Pagan origins. Historically thanks to the puritanical BC> legacy in the USA, there were times and places where they outlawed BC> Christmas. Not far from Whoville. ;) We keep a low key celebration, less so now that the girls are both grown and gone. No tree, sometimes put out some of my nativity scene collection, Steve has done some outside lights. Agree that it's now mostly a pagan celebration but we keep our focus on the real reason for the season. Older daughter texted me a couple of weeks ago, asking for paternal grandmother's fruitcake recipie. I sent it, got a text picture earlier this week showing that she'd made it. We got ours from Southern Supreme this year. (G) Blessed Christmas time. --- Catch you later, Ruth rchaffly{at}earthlink{dot}net FIDO 1:396/45.28 .... Luke 2:11b |...a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. --- PPoint 3.01 * Origin: Sew! That's My Point (1:396/45.28) .