Posted on 09/26/2020 5:45:51 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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Place cookie dough portions in ramekins. Indent tops; add choc/chips, nutella, caramel, whatever.
Serve warm, right out of the oven. Nice served w/ sprinkle of sugared chp nuts.
NO-BAKE FRENCH SNOWBALLS / Vintage recipe---found this in an old cookbook
METHOD Combine 1/2 cup cocoa, 1 1/2 c conf sugar. Add cup chp nuts.
Moisten w/ 1⁄2 cup fat-free sweet/cond/milk, tea vanilla, pinch salt. Shape
into balls. Roll in combined cocoa and granular sugar. Freeze for chewiness.
VARY---add tb cinnamon to rolling mixture.
Add very finely processed peanuts --- not quite peanut dust.
Could also roll in sweetened coconut flakes.
How long to bake in the Ramekin? 350/15?
Check your cookie recipe....but adjust depending on how large the ramekins are.
I’m really getting in at the end of this week’s thread!
The Opo squash are still trying to produce, but, it was down to 40 deg. last night, and the forecast continues mostly cool. Not sure we’ll really get a lot more out of them, but, A) We can only use so much at a time; B) We’ll have seeds for next year; and C) I’ve learned a lot.
The latest lesson: Build stronger supports for these to climb on! Part of my “rig” broke down when 3 heavy fruits developed close together.
Also, a realization: Unless my wife wants to trade some of these fruits w/ friends, I may want to goose the plants (fertilize them with blossom booster) somewhat sequentially. Ie., fertilize some a little earlier than others. That, and start a few seedlings in March, indoors. Opo are rather slow germinating, and the initial growth was modest. I think they’d still be manageable to move by the time frost danger was over...
Now, my “real question” is:
Wood bees have taken up residence right at (in) the door frame of my shop, which is a metal “skin” pole barn, basically. I keep spraying them when I see them, and also, heavily, the opening they go in, but can’t seem to knock out the colony. These suckers are TOUGH. Nothing so far seems to have enough residual action to do the job.
The most recent formulations I’ve used @ the entrance are:
#1) Deltamethrin 0.02%; S-Bioallethrin 0.05%; “other” 99.93%. (Claims to kill most any insect, with “12 week control”. Action seems slower than “2”, but well sprayed wood bees DO die, eventually.
#2) Prallethrin 0.02%, Cypermethrin 0.05%, inert 99.93%. “6 week control” claimed. (This is not a “Flying Insect Killer” but it does-in well sprayed-on wood bees faster than almost anything I’ve tried except “Jet” wasp spray, and I think the latter is effective mostly because (when you can hit it well) it hits the bee with so much spray: A little of the wasp spray has little effect, and residual action seems nil, on wood bees, whereas I find wasp spray quite effective on wasps and hornets and their nests.
#3) Sevin, at up to 3 oz. per gal. mix.
I also used up the last of a spray can of “flying insect killer” but I tossed the can, so I’m not sure of the ingredients, and I don’t think it was any more effective than “1” anyway.
It occurred to me that some cool evening I could try to partially block the entrance with something like the “Slime” my daughter used to make. The borax in it might do the trick as the bees tried to chew through it? Or, I could mix in powdered pesticide?
Effectiveness is about 100x more important here than any consideration of “organic”, “natural”, etc. I want to nuke these SOB’s, for once and for all!
Suggestions? A hotline # to President Putin?
Killing the current carpenter bees and then plugging the holes will only put off your problem until next season, when the larvae inside the tunnels emerge.
Call a professional. It’s quick, cheap, and permanent.
We had a nasty wasp nest to deal with this season - they were up under the soffit on the roof overhang on the back deck - close to the patio door, so you couldn’t even go out that way there were so many!
Beau used a dust and duster and dusted them all with Tempo and within an hour they were all dead and gone.
He uses the same product in liquid form to spray the south side of the house in years we have large ladybug 9not the real ones!) and Box Elder Bug infestations.
FWIW, I’m starting the new thread for the week in a few. First, coffee! :)
https://www.zonehomesolutions.com/what-is-the-average-cost-for-pest-control-service/
That's WAY more than we can afford at this point.
Anyway, my idea is to partially plug or coat the tunnels with something that will kill them. Repeating in the spring is no problem.
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