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I am patiently waiting for the delivery of a poppy seed roll (Potica).

I have been on a quest all my life, I have been looking high and low, in bakeries, online recipes, and in old recipe books to no avail for poppy seed and nut rolls. 

Yesterday I was googling recipes and an ad for Amazon popped up for a poppy seed roll! It look good so I ordered it and it is going to be delivered sometime this afternoon and then the “Test’ to see if it meets my high standards… does it match my grandmother’s poppy seed roll!

History: My grandmother used to make this for the holidays, she used to spend a whole day making pastries for the holiday and one of my favorites was the poppy seed and nuts rolls. She also used to make Beer Crullers that I loved, but alas, she never wrote any recipes down and they were lost when she passed away. I found the poppy seed and nut roll recipes online the closes are from Yankee Magazine (My version is here). If anyone has a beer cruller recipes I would love to have a copy and I'll give you credit on this page.

Will it meet the high standard of my grandmother?

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This post just got banned from Facebook!!!!

Your post goes against our Community Standards on cybersecurity.

WTF is wrong with this? Those people are nuts!

They must have a list of code words that they flag, they don't look at the context the word is used in... there's the word... blink deleted.

George Carlin got it right! 

Say the Secret Word and the duck will come down and ban you!

I also think that once you get on their "S***list" they even become more picky.

Peach Cobbler Recipe Using Pancake Mix

I like to experiment with food, I think it is because of all the chemistry classes I had to take in college. With peaches being season right now, I researched a number of peach cobbler recipes including ones using pancake mix and I came up with this recipe.

Peach Cobbler
Using pancake mix.

Ingredients:

1 peach peeled and diced in to 1 inch cubes.
2 tablespoons of pancake mix complete.
2 tablespoons of oatmeal.
1 tablespoon of sugar.
1 tablespoon of melted butter.
1 teaspoon of vanilla extract.
Two dashes of cinnamon.
A dash of nutmeg.

Directions:

1. Peel the peach and dice it up.
2. Mix the pancake mix according to instructions.
3. Add the oatmeal, sugar, melted butter, vanilla extract, cinnamon, and nutmeg.
4. Pour into a small ovenproof glass bowl and add the diced peach.
5. Sprinkle some oatmeal and sugar on top.
6. Bake at 350 for 20 to 30 minutes.

Feel free to copy the recipe!

Happy Easter!

Today, the family is not doing anything special; normally I would have gone to my niece’s house in New Jersey, but it would have been a three hour drive down there.

I decided to have something besides our usual Easter ham, so I made a Lobster Pot Pie. When I visited the dietician, I asked her about lobster, she said yes to boiled lobster and no to lobster Newberg. So yesterday I was looking through on-line recipes and I came across a chicken pot pie recipe that I thought was interesting and I decided to substitute lobster for chicken.


Quick Lobster (Chicken) Pot Pie

• 1 cup cooked lobster meat – substitute 2 skinless chicken breasts, cut up in to cubes for the lobster meat if you are making chicken pot pie.
• 1 cups frozen mixed vegetables, thawed
• 1 medium potato diced
• ½ cups small whole onions, thawed
• 1 (10 ounce) can cream of celery soup (I used low sodium) – substitute a can of cream of chicken for chicken pot pie
• Pie crust
• 1 can of water

Preheat oven to 400°F. Place the pot pie bowl (I use individual pot-pie pottery bowls) on the pie crust and cut out a circle the size of the bowl. Mix lobster, vegetables and cream of celery soup together, 1 can of water (the soup can) and put the mixture in a bowl. Cover the bowl with the pie crust. Bake in the oven for 30 minutes or until top turns golden brown.

It was delicious! And it was also easy to make (only about 15 minutes to prepare).