What Shall We Bake Today?

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Today’s offering is Pecan Bread with Caramel Sauce!

Ingredients

1 ½ cups flour

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1 teaspoon baking powder

¾ cup butter

6 tablespoons sugar

½ cup pecans roughly chopped

3 eggs

1 tablespoon milk

1 teaspoon vanilla

5 tablespoons honey

Toppings:

½ cup caramel sauce

pecans (as desired)

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Grease and line the base of a 9×5 loaf pan with wax paper.

Sift flour, cinnamon, and baking powder into a large bowl.

Cut the butter into the flour. Mix until the mixture looks like breadcrumbs.

Add in the sugar and chopped pecans.

In a separate bowl, beat the eggs together with milk and vanilla.

Stir in the honey.

Add the wet ingredients to the dry flour mixture. Gently mix everything together.

Very important! Do not overmix.

Mix only until the dry ingredient have mixed with the wet ingredients.

The batter will still be lumpy.

Pour the batter into the prepared pan.

With a spatula, smooth out the top of the batter.

Bake in the oven for 50-60 minutes, or until the cake is lightly browned.

Insert a toothpick or a wooden skewer into the center of the cake. If it comes out clean, it’s ready.

Cool cake in pan for 10 minutes.

Turn it out and let it cool on the rack a little while longer.

Drizzle with caramel sauce and spread all over the bread.

Sprinkle the chopped nuts on top.

Slice and enjoy!

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34 thoughts on “What Shall We Bake Today?”

    1. Morning, Pat! Still no wheezer, 18 and cloudy skies this morning. It’s still early in the month….maybe that will yet prove to be true! LOL

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  10. EXCERPT: “A California school district that ordered teachers to hide students’ gender transitions from their parents, then passed the buck to the state when teachers sued, got cold comfort from a federal court Tuesday: You’re both at fault.

    U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez, nominated by President George W. Bush and repeatedly slurred by name by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, denied motions to dismiss by the Escondido Union School District, Attorney General Rob Bonta, California State Board of Education and California Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond.

    The Supreme Court and 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals “have clearly and unambiguously declared parents’ rights as they relate to their children,” superseding California’s policy that “subordinate[s]” parents’ rights “to the child’s newly state-created right to privacy and the child’s right to be free from gender discrimination,” Benitez wrote.

    The Golden State can’t point to any “controlling decisions that would compel this Court to limit or infringe parental rights” under the U.S. Constitution, which “must eclipse the state rights of the child,” the jurist said, granting legal standing to all plaintiffs to sue.

    The next day Ohio GOP Gov. Mike DeWine signed into law HB 8, the opposite of California policy, prohibiting schools from withholding students’ gender transitions from parents. 

    The Ohio Capital Journal dubbed it a “forced-outing” bill but the conservative Christian Alliance Defending Freedom, which has brought similar suits against what it calls “secret social transition” policies, praised HB 8 for “ensuring school officials do not hide crucial information from parents about their child’s mental health and well-being.”

    In California, EUSD teachers Elizabeth Mirabelli and Lori Ann West won a preliminary injunction from Benitez in September 2023 that barred the district and state from forcing them to deceive parents or taking “any adverse employment actions” against them. They returned to Benitez to force EUSD to follow his order when it still hadn’t taken them off administrative leave months later.

    The injunction set off a tug-of-war between branches of government, with several Bonta deputies directly threatening EUSD if it extended protections beyond Mirabelli and West to any teacher or parent, and Bonta twice telling districts to ignore “the reasoning” of Benitez’s order, the teachers’ Thomas More Society lawyers said in an amended complaint last summer.

    Benitez noted Thurmond issued “at least one” threatening letter to a district that didn’t comply, the California Department of Education sued a district to comply, and Bonta sued another for a countervailing “parental notice approach.”

    Last summer Newsom also signed into law AB 1955, which claims “existing law” already required districts to hide students’ gender identities at odds with their sex from their parents. That “final straw” prompted Elon Musk to move his company SpaceX to Texas and transgender celebrity Caitlyn Jenner to celebrate Musk for his “strong move” for parental rights.

    The amended complaint added new plaintiffs – two EUSD teachers who have taught transgender students and expected to teach more, and two sets of parents with “gender incongruent children” in California public schools, proceeding under pseudonyms due to what their lawyers called “severe harassment and retaliation” against Mirabelli and West.

    The Lakeside Union School District, which was considering a “parental notification policy” at odds with state policy, also joined the suit, which now seeks class-action status to obtain relief for “similarly situated teachers, parents, and school districts.”

    Benitez made clear from the preliminary injunction that he considers social transitioning little different from a student’s concussion, sexual assault or suicidal expressions, whose “significant, adverse, life-long social-emotional health consequences” legally require parental involvement. He cited high-profile transgender clinical psychologist Erica Anderson for support…..”

    https://justthenews.com/government/state-houses/judge-approves-suit-against-californias-policy-hiding-student-gender

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  11. NF: Do NOT mess with my ButterFingers!!!! I guess that’s why the price for a case went up $10 in less than a year.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/panic-hedge-hershey-reportedly-asks-cftc-approval-buy-huge-cocoa-pile-ny-exchange

    Our Take: With all the fire news, this story immediately reminded me of the 1919 Brooklyn Chocolate Flood. “Despite the fire department arriving on the scene incredibly soon, the fire spread quickly to the third floor, where butter was stored, and soon enough there was a flood of melted chocolate and butter spreading through the streets of Brooklyn.”

    People were reportedly licking the fudgy landscape. “…the chocolatey streets drew the attention of local residents whose desire to have a taste outweighed the ‘lapping it up off the ground’-ness of it all.”

    But I digress from this story about 90,000 metric tons of cocoa being sold on the New York exchange.

    On the one hand, it’s good for people to be reminded that the economy runs on goods and services. Real ones. They’ve made our money so worthless that people often forget the underlying exchange of labor for goods and services. Awakening often ignites by strange trigger, and America desperately needs an economic awakening.

    We have to look for silver linings because this story is not good. “The move highlights that cocoa cost inflation will get even more extreme in 2025.”

    They’re coming for chocolate. For chocolate! I know we’re skeptical of unity, but this could be an authentically unifying moment. I don’t care how they identify, every woman wants chocolate at least once a month. It’s a biological necessity. And we keep hearing that women vote harder than men. Trump making chocolate great again would win women forever. – Ashe in America

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  12. What is the Economic Value of Greenland and Why Does Trump Want it So Badly?

    If Greenland is made the 51st state, it would have as many U.S. Senators as the state of California. That could have very serious implications for the balance of power in Congress. And how would Greenland vote in U.S. presidential elections? Has anyone even considered that?

    Of course Greenland could become just another U.S. territory, but why would the citizens of Greenland want to become the next Puerto Rico? That certainly doesn’t sound very appealing… Approximately 56,000 people live in Greenland, and 80 percent of it is covered in ice. So why does Trump want it so badly?

    Of course the truth is that it all comes down to natural resources.

    In particular, Greenland has lots and lots of oil. According to Wikipedia, Greenland “has some of the world’s largest remaining oil resources”… in 2001, the U.S. Geological Survey found that the waters off north-eastern Greenland (north and south of the Arctic Circle) could contain up to 110 billion barrels (17×109 m3) of oil…

    The U.S. consumes an average of approximately 20 million barrels of petroleum per day. – The Most Important News

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  13. Just The News: “President-elect Donald Trump on Friday received a sentence of unconditional discharge in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s hush money case. “Sir, I wish you Godspeed as you pursue your second term in office,” Merchan said after imposing the sentence, according to the Washington Post.

    The sentence means Trump will not face jail time, probation, or a fine. Trump appeared remotely for the proceedings from his Mar-a-Lago estate. He took a defiant tone during the sentencing, highlighting his election victory, which he said was indicative of public rejection of the case. “They’ve been watching your trial, so they understood it,” he said of public, CNN reported.

    The sentence means that Trump will face no jail time, a development acting Justice Juan Merchan hinted at in earlier filings. The expected sentence played a role in the Supreme Court’s refusal to block the sentencing on Thursday evening.

    During the proceedings, prosecutor Joshua Steinglass highlighted what he said were efforts to encourage the public to “reject the jury verdict.” Trump’s attorneys rejected that assertion and reiterated their concerns about the case’s legitimacy.

    Trump was convicted on 34 counts of falsifying business records last year in connection with a 2016 payment his then-attorney, Michael Cohen, made to Stormy Daniels. He maintains he is innocent of wrongdoing and that the case is politically motivated.

    The decision formally labelled Trump a convicted felon, making him the first person of such status to enter the White House.”

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  14. Still in business today….

    “This is kinda cool.. If you ever find yourself in ‘downtown’ Oklahoma City, check out the manhole covers. Each one is a map of the city center showing you exactly where you are. Why don’t more cities do shit like this? Easy – they don’t want you out in traffic in the middle of the street staring down at the ground. Still a cool idea, though…”

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  15. Ah! Great point!

    “Again, I don’t wanna come off like some kinda cold-hearted jerkoff or nothing, but that house is worth $ 32,000,000.00. Think about that number – $ 32,000,000.00. Am I supposed to be happy for him? Just can’t do it…“

    “Ya know that comedian Jeff Foxworthy who does those ‘You might be a redneck’ jokes? This might be his front door. Juss’ sayin’…” [NF: Pretty cool idea if you ask me!]

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  16. “In the United States, men drink more than women, and some racial groups drink more than others: Men drink more often and more heavily than women, consuming nearly three times as much pure alcohol per year. Hispanics, Native Americans, and Whites have higher rates of daily heavy drinking than Blacks and Asians: 

    Hispanics: 33.9% 

    Native Americans: 28.4% 

    Whites: 27.3% 

    Blacks: 22.5% 

    Asians: 19.2% 

    Heavy drinking is lowest among adults aged 65 and over, if you don’t include Florida. Juss’ sayin’…”

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  17. EXCERPT: “A Muslim influencer on X, Mohammed Hijab, of the Sapience Institute, has called for the Muslim birthrate to increase in order to influence politics in Europe. Hijab has partaken in a number of debates with high-profile figures, such as Jordan Peterson, and is known for his promotion of Islam on X, which has earned him nearly half a million followers.

    “If we increase our birthrates Muslims can be assured to be 10% of Britain and 20% of France (population) in 2050 despite any policy changes in immigration. We are not the Zionist lobby our strength is not in our ability to influence politicians our strength is in our numbers,” he wrote.

    Hijab’s tweet received over 7 million views and generated thousands of comments.

    (Tweet)

    Hijab has also been active attacking Elon Musk. In response to a tweet by Musk where Musk discussed his grandmother and how she could have been the victim of an Asian grooming gang, he wrote: “@elonmusk, please don’t give us your life story. Muslims of the West, get married and have many kids try and aim for 5 minimum that is what these fragile far-right anti-Muslims hate the most…..”

    “….However, the data may be Hijab’s side, at least when it comes to increasing influence through sheer numbers. In a democracy, votes count, and if Muslims can increase their birth rate and vote in unison towards their concrete interests, then this will almost certainly increase their power in Europe.

    A Pew Research study estimated there could triple to 75 million Muslims in Europe by 2050 if they manage to maintain a high birth rate and immigration rates continue their pace…..”

    https://rmx.news/article/our-strength-is-in-numbers-muslims-can-wield-power-in-europe-by-increasing-their-birthrate-writes-influential-muslim-in-viral-x-post/

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  18. “Friday Funnies: While Rome Burns, Newsom plays a fish”

    Robert W Malone MD, MS, Jan 10, 2025

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  19. “More wealthy millennials — defined as households of those aged 26 to 45 making more than $200,000 a year — are leaving California than anywhere else in the country, according to a recent SmartAsset report analyzing 2021 and 2022 tax return data. The Golden State lost a net of 9,181 of these wealthy millennial households in that time period, more than double the next biggest loss, which happened in New York. -SF Gate

    For those interested in California politics, the best analysis I have read of the disaster in Los Angeles was published in Unherd:

    “LA’s dreams went up in flames”

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