The only thing I (unwillingly) skipped was the potato chips. It’s hard to tell from the picture but my small salty pretzel 🥨 is there, LOL.

I was pleasantly surprised when I received a box of these cookies from Panera – they were delicious so I had to try and make them.

😊

Bacon cake is a cake made with bacon, either savory or sweet, and generally baked in an oven, although it's sometimes cooked in a skillet on a range top.[1]

I’ll take two of each, please. Thank you.

Excellent choice!

To this day my ex still sings along “kissin’ the night away…” You made my night, OP. Thank you!

Oh my… thank you so much for that recipe, I don’t have that in my arsenal.

Bookmarked, archived and saved in PDF just in case the internet takes a nap.

Ever since Covid, my family and I have been exchanging food as gifts. Grocery-hopping to stores with empty shelves scared our grandparents, so a new family tradition was born.

These gifts consist of homemade pies, cookies, breads, pastries, dried figs from a relative’s tree, frozen chicken pot-pies, ginger marmalade, honey purchased from a family farm and bean soup in a mason jar (dry). A cousin who doesn’t cook will be gifting us with empanadas purchased from a co-worker; she’s very creative with packaging and makes her gifts look like they came from an expensive boutique. Our younger cousins are making soap, peppermint bark and sewing gift bags.

My brother is waiting for the price to drop on a certain wine. When it does, he pays a visit to the store manager who gives him a discount if he buys a certain amount. My mom is making her signature mini fruit tarts and placing them in holiday tins she purchased last year for about 50-99¢ each. She also wants to make madeleines.

This year, we’re adding DIY fresh fruit baskets at the request of our grandparents. The kids are getting money stuffed inside an origami frog (last year’s crane was a failure). I will be making several frozen lasagna (9x9) and mini loaves of banana bread baked in holiday-themed stoneware (very inexpensive).

My entire family would absolutely welcome you and your pickled okra; we don’t have a pickle guy. We have my uncle who made pickled bitter melon… it wasn’t bad.

EDIT: My dad made vanilla extract during lockdown, it took almost 2 years but it was a hit!

Wow, thanks!

Saving this. Thanks for the recipe!

Got it, thank you so much! I agree with your statement regarding the bark as I was looking at the photos from Wikipedia.

I’m delighted to see that iNaturalist works on birds as well; my references are mostly books and journals with questionable illustrations and photographs.

Thank you so much, you’re lovely!

Sadly no, I typed up the description on Brave search; it took a while because I used common words:

“Mushrooms that grow on tree branches sideways possible orange color” and variations of without using punctuation and the +/- symbols.

Now that you mentioned it, if there is a computer vision app you can recommend I would very much appreciate it. I’m not tech savvy and using an old iPhone if that helps. Thank you.

Oh wow, I didn’t know those guys grew on upper tree branches. Nice photo, thanks for sharing.