Last night’s dinner: Penne alla Vodka, homemade bread & butter, and panna cotta
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Sandwich Bread

I love this recipe from A Passion for Baking by Marcy Goldman
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I hadn’t made this recipe for years, which means I’d forgotten that it makes more dough than my mixer can handle, so I made a mess.

I also ended up with three pans, one I made Sunday , nd two went into the freezer for some other day.

Unless you are a glutton for punishment, make sure you half this recipe.

Sweet Rolls

3/4 cup unsalted butter, melted
1 cup milk, heated to 100 F
3/4 cup sugar
1 1/4 teaspoons salt
3/4 ounce yeast
1/2 cup warm water
5 eggs
8 1/2 – 9 1/2 cups flour

Filling
4 cups brown sugar
1 cups unsalted butter
3 tablespoons cinnamon

Frosting
1/2 pound cream cheese
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 cup heavy cream
3 – 4 cups powdered sugar

Half the time I don’t even bother with the frosting–and didn’t this time.
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New short story.
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Been reading a lot again, so today’s word is from the latest collection I plowed through: were

Yesterday I wrote my first short short in years. Today, I wrote another.

Click through at your own risk.
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