Any Home Bakers Here?

[R2elk]

Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Bread

2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp cloves
1/4 tsp. ground ginger
1/4 tsp. ground nutmeg
2 large eggs
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup Sucralose
1/4 cup honey
1 cup pumpkin puree
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/4 cup sour cream
1 tsp. pure vanilla extract
1 cup walnuts, coarsely chopped
1/2 cup chocolate chips.

Preheat oven to 350°F. Lightly butter a 9" x 5" loaf pan.

Cream butter, sugar, Sucralose and honey together. Beat in eggs until smooth. Mix in pumpkin puree, sour cream, and vanilla until light and fluffy.

Add flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, cloves, ginger, and nutmeg. Add chopped nuts and chocolate chips. Mix until just combined. Do not over mix.

Pour batter into buttered loaf pan.

Bake bread until a wooden toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 50 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack and let cool slightly.

 

[jnicholes]

Cowboy soup tonight.

I am beginning to really enjoy cooking this way.

 

[WhatsUpDuck]

My hubby got his peanut butter cookies tonight

 

[BoundlessLove]

Thanksgiving Dinner Menu:

Smoked Turkey
Maple-glazed Ham
Giblet Gravy
Pork Broth Cornbread Dressing
Green beans
Skillet Fried Corn
Sweet Potato Casserole
Baked Macaroni and Cheese
Yeast Rolls
Cranberry Sauce
Pumpkin Pie
Pecan Pie
Three layered Chocolate Cake

And everybody better wear their Thanksgiving pants, because I do not want a lot of leftovers.

 

[Sally PB]

How do you get everything to come out, ready, at the same time? I know some can be made ahead and warmed up, but, there's only so much room in my oven, and I don't have a microwave.

This is why I get overwhelmed with big holiday meals. It's hard enough to get turkey, mashed potatoes, and gravy ready to serve all at the same time.

 

[jnicholes]

How do you get everything to come out, ready, at the same time? I know some can be made ahead and warmed up, but, there's only so much room in my oven, and I don't have a microwave.

This is why I get overwhelmed with big holiday meals. It's hard enough to get turkey, mashed potatoes, and gravy ready to serve all at the same time.

Let me tell you what I do.

First off, find common temperatures for cooking the parts of the meal, then divide them into blocks or batches. For example, how many recipes are cooked at 350°F? Find out how many, and then cook all those in the first block.

Also time when each one goes into the oven, so that way they’re all done at the same time. For example, start with the one with the longest cooking time, then add the next one at a specific time, so that they’re all done at the same time.

Then, you move onto the next temperature, which might be 375°F or 400°F. You cook those, doing the exact same thing.

This is the way I’ve always done it.

I’ll post a real life example later, I gotta get my recipes first.

 

[BoundlessLove]

How do you get everything to come out, ready, at the same time? I know some can be made ahead and warmed up, but, there's only so much room in my oven, and I don't have a microwave.

This is why I get overwhelmed with big holiday meals. It's hard enough to get turkey, mashed potatoes, and gravy ready to serve all at the same time.

My husband smokes the turkey and ham - starts late the night before Thanksgiving.
I make the pies and the cake 1-2 days before Thanksgiving. This year my daughter is bringing pecan pie so will only make 2 pumpkin pies.
I go ahead and grate all the onions I will need and also grate all the cheese for the Mac and cheese.
Also the day before, I will make the cornbread, boil the macaroni noodles, bake the sweet potatoes, boil the pork roast (broth is for cornbread), boil eggs (for gravy and deviled eggs), prep cranberry sauce and anything else I can do the day before.
The day of Thanksgiving will be putting everything together and cooking/baking. I cook my green beans and skillet fry the corn on top of the stove. The meats are ready that morning, so I strain the turkey broth to save for making giblet gravy and whatever remains to freeze.
Then the baking happens. Put everything together and
THANKFULLY, my daughters usually help me!
Then, it is like playing oven Tetris.

This year, my husband’s family is having their Thanksgiving dinner the day after Thanksgiving.
So I will double the green beans, Mac and cheese, and sweet potato casserole and put in separate pans.
That way I can bake/heat up Friday morning instead of having to start all over. And take the other pumpkin pie.
Also, we end up playing fridge Tetris.

 

[jnicholes]

@Sally PB Here’s a real life example, pasted from my notes.

Prime rib: (500, then 325)

Turkey (deep fried)

Ham (unknown temp)

Giblet gravy (stovetop )

Ham gravy (stovetop)

Cranberry sauce (stovetop)

Stuffing (350)

Rolls (375)

Green bean casserole (400)

Candied yams (350)

Pumpkin pie (400)

Apple pie (425)

Mince pie (350)

French silk pie (no bake)

As you can see, I have three recipes that call for 350°F. I would cook these at the same time, staggering the times I put them in that so that they would be all done at the same time. this is dependent on how long each one takes to bake. You would obviously put in the longest baking one first, then the next shortest, and so on.

After that, I would probably move onto the 400°F recipes, and so on.

 

[fuzzi]

I love my turkey roaster, no oven juggling with it, at least.

Sausage for stuffing, cranberry sauce, and pies cooked the day before.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I am making Pizza tonight Canadian bacon and sausage.
Morning Home Bakers.
Heat is on fire in the stove. We are not doing a big Christmas this year.
Just the 2 of us not worth the effort.