I have always liked the combination of dates and oatmeal. My grandmother
and my mother both made wonderful oatmeal cookies that could be eaten on
their own or, even better, as sandwich with a date filling. Once in a
while I find date turnovers on a bakery and they are always a nice
treat. This morning I searched for a recipe for the turnovers and
decided to give them a try.


I ran into few snags along the way. The recipe called for a half cup of
unsalted butter i have a lot of that... in the freezer. It took a while
to arrange that. Then I had to cool the batter for at least an hour.
That was another snag because I as going out at noon and would not have
time to finish. Not a problem. I wrapped it up, stuck it in the fridge
and came back to it a few hours later.

The cooled dough rolled out nicely. It needed a good dose of flour on
under and over the dough. Only 15 minutes to bake. The results were
pretty good.

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Dave Smith > wrote in news:ZFQiA.19740$W_4.11620
@fx21.iad:

> treat. This morning I searched for a recipe for the turnovers and
> decided to give them a try.
>

And the recipe you found was where...? Everything I found was basically
cookie dough folded over a date filling. And that's not what I'm used to
seeing when the term "turnover" is used.

My mom used to make those oatmeal/date filled sandwich cookies. I
have the recipe somewhere. They are really good. The cookie dough is
rolled out pretty thin,mand the date filling is cooked and then cooled before
using. Darn, now I want some. ;-))

N.

Alan, can't you just use frozen puff pastry?

N.

On 2017-01-28 4:42 AM, Alan Holbrook wrote:
> Dave Smith > wrote in news:ZFQiA.19740$W_4.11620
> @fx21.iad:
>
>> treat. This morning I searched for a recipe for the turnovers and
>> decided to give them a try.
>>
>
> And the recipe you found was where...? Everything I found was basically
> cookie dough folded over a date filling. And that's not what I'm used to
> seeing when the term "turnover" is used.
>


I found it online. They are called Date Filled Cookies, but in the
recipes I checked out the terms were interchangeable. They turned out
to be similar to like a soft oatmeal cookie wrapped around the date
filling similar to the date turnovers I buy in bakeries.

http://a-boleyn.livejournal.com/159574.html#t1353046

In high school I used to turn over dates most every week. Then I had a
date that I kept pretty steady. She still hangs around after 50+ years.

On 2017-01-28 10:00 AM, Nancy2 wrote:
> My mom used to make those oatmeal/date filled sandwich cookies. I
> have the recipe somewhere. They are really good. The cookie dough is
> rolled out pretty thin,mand the date filling is cooked and then cooled before
> using. Darn, now I want some. ;-))
>

Make yourself a treat. They are delicious. Mine turned out really
nicely. I think my next project will be to track down my mother's recipe
for oatmeal cookies. It had similar ingredients to this recipe and
rolled them out to cut and bake them, but the texture was more on
crispy, though they softened up a little if the date filling sat in them
for a while. My brother has Mom's recipes and his wife has been saying
for years that she is going to do them on the computer and share them.
It has not happened yet.

On 2017-01-28 8:47 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2017-01-28 4:42 AM, Alan Holbrook wrote:
>> Dave Smith > wrote in
>> news:ZFQiA.19740$W_4.11620
>> @fx21.iad:
>>
>>> treat. This morning I searched for a recipe for the turnovers and
>>> decided to give them a try.
>>>
>>
>> And the recipe you found was where...? Everything I found was basically
>> cookie dough folded over a date filling. And that's not what I'm used to
>> seeing when the term "turnover" is used.
>>
>
>
> I found it online. They are called Date Filled Cookies, but in the
> recipes I checked out the terms were interchangeable. They turned out
> to be similar to like a soft oatmeal cookie wrapped around the date
> filling similar to the date turnovers I buy in bakeries.
>
> http://a-boleyn.livejournal.com/159574.html#t1353046

Turnovers to me always use plain or puff pastry.
Graham

On 2017-01-28 10:01 AM, Nancy2 wrote:
> Alan, can't you just use frozen puff pastry?

The oatmeal turnovers I am familiar with have always been made with an
oatmeal dough. Oatmeal and dates are a great combination. You could
probably make them with puff pastry but I would not have thought of
using dates for that kind of turnover.

On 2017-01-28 10:57 AM, graham wrote:
> On 2017-01-28 8:47 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
>> On 2017-01-28 4:42 AM, Alan Holbrook wrote:
>>> Dave Smith > wrote in
>>> news:ZFQiA.19740$W_4.11620
>>> @fx21.iad:
>>>
>>>> treat. This morning I searched for a recipe for the turnovers and
>>>> decided to give them a try.
>>>>
>>>
>>> And the recipe you found was where...? Everything I found was basically
>>> cookie dough folded over a date filling. And that's not what I'm
>>> used to
>>> seeing when the term "turnover" is used.
>>>
>>
>>
>> I found it online. They are called Date Filled Cookies, but in the
>> recipes I checked out the terms were interchangeable. They turned out
>> to be similar to like a soft oatmeal cookie wrapped around the date
>> filling similar to the date turnovers I buy in bakeries.
>>
>> http://a-boleyn.livejournal.com/159574.html#t1353046
>
> Turnovers to me always use plain or puff pastry.



Most other turnovers are made with plain or puff pastry. I have enjoyed
date turnovers since I was a kid and they always had an oatmeal crust.

Nancy2 wrote:
>
> My mom used to make those oatmeal/date filled sandwich cookies. I
> have the recipe somewhere. They are really good. The cookie dough is
> rolled out pretty thin,mand the date filling is cooked and then cooled before
> using. Darn, now I want some. ;-))

No recipe but I haven't had dates in forever (way more than 20 years
now). I remember liking to eat a mix of dates and nuts...maybe a few
raisins too?

Next grocery store trip, I'll look for a box of dates. I assume they
would be in the aisle along with canned fruit?

Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>
> In high school I used to turn over dates most every week. Then I had a
> date that I kept pretty steady. She still hangs around after 50+ years.

ah yes....you ran across the premium version! :-D
Might I be so lucky next trip to the grocery store?
Possible but doubtful.

On Sat, 28 Jan 2017 11:49:10 -0500, Gary > wrote:

>Nancy2 wrote:
>>
>> My mom used to make those oatmeal/date filled sandwich cookies. I
>> have the recipe somewhere. They are really good. The cookie dough is
>> rolled out pretty thin,mand the date filling is cooked and then cooled before
>> using. Darn, now I want some. ;-))
>
>No recipe but I haven't had dates in forever (way more than 20 years
>now). I remember liking to eat a mix of dates and nuts...maybe a few
>raisins too?
>
>Next grocery store trip, I'll look for a box of dates. I assume they
>would be in the aisle along with canned fruit?

Here they are with the fruit - you can also at this time of year buy
the big muscat dates loose.

On Saturday, January 28, 2017 at 11:50:48 AM UTC-5, Gary wrote:
> Nancy2 wrote:
> >
> > My mom used to make those oatmeal/date filled sandwich cookies. I
> > have the recipe somewhere. They are really good. The cookie dough is
> > rolled out pretty thin,mand the date filling is cooked and then cooled before
> > using. Darn, now I want some. ;-))
>
> No recipe but I haven't had dates in forever (way more than 20 years
> now). I remember liking to eat a mix of dates and nuts...maybe a few
> raisins too?
>
> Next grocery store trip, I'll look for a box of dates. I assume they
> would be in the aisle along with canned fruit?

It depends on the grocery store. Mine keeps them near the produce
department. Other stores located them in the candy aisle or with
the baking things.

Cindy Hamilton

Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>
> Gary wrote:
> > Next grocery store trip, I'll look for a box of dates. I assume they
> > would be in the aisle along with canned fruit?
>
> It depends on the grocery store. Mine keeps them near the produce
> department. Other stores located them in the candy aisle or with
> the baking things.

Thanks Cindy. I'll find them and maybe a bit quicker with your ideas.

In article >, says...
>
> Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> >
> > Gary wrote:
> > > Next grocery store trip, I'll look for a box of dates. I assume they
> > > would be in the aisle along with canned fruit?
> >
> > It depends on the grocery store. Mine keeps them near the produce
> > department. Other stores located them in the candy aisle or with
> > the baking things.
>
> Thanks Cindy. I'll find them and maybe a bit quicker with your ideas.

The other day I was making braised red cabbage and couldn't find the
sultanas, so I used chopped fresh dates instead. Good combination.

Janet UK

Janet wrote:
>
> The other day I was making braised red cabbage and couldn't find the
> sultanas, so I used chopped fresh dates instead. Good combination.

Interesting. I've never used them in a recipe. Just had them plain along
with something else. I'm thinking to eat them combined with dry roasted
peanuts. Seriously, it's been so many years, I forget the companion to
dates that I liked so long ago.

Will be fun to try them again after forever.

"Gary" > wrote in message ...
> Nancy2 wrote:
>>
>> My mom used to make those oatmeal/date filled sandwich cookies. I
>> have the recipe somewhere. They are really good. The cookie dough is
>> rolled out pretty thin,mand the date filling is cooked and then cooled
>> before
>> using. Darn, now I want some. ;-))
>
> No recipe but I haven't had dates in forever (way more than 20 years
> now). I remember liking to eat a mix of dates and nuts...maybe a few
> raisins too?
>
> Next grocery store trip, I'll look for a box of dates. I assume they
> would be in the aisle along with canned fruit?



They will be where the raisins, dried apricots etc. are, or even in the
produce dept, but not in the canned fruit aisle, at least in any stores that
I shop at. YMMV

Cheri

"Gary" > wrote in message ...
> Janet wrote:
>>
>> The other day I was making braised red cabbage and couldn't find the
>> sultanas, so I used chopped fresh dates instead. Good combination.
>
> Interesting. I've never used them in a recipe. Just had them plain along
> with something else. I'm thinking to eat them combined with dry roasted
> peanuts. Seriously, it's been so many years, I forget the companion to
> dates that I liked so long ago.
>
> Will be fun to try them again after forever.


My mom, and just about everyone else back then, stuffed them with some kind
of nut, almond, cashew, pecan, walnut etc., and then dusted them with
powdered sugar. I like them stuffed with the nuts, but not so much the
powdered sugar on them.

Cheri

On 2017-01-28 9:52 AM, wrote:

>>
>> Next grocery store trip, I'll look for a box of dates. I assume they
>> would be in the aisle along with canned fruit?
>
> Here they are with the fruit - you can also at this time of year buy
> the big muscat dates loose.
>
Strange but I've never been that fond of cookies or cakes that have
dates in them. Yet I used to enjoy them at xmas when Mum would buy them
in those boxes with rounded ends.
We kept the wooden lids and bases to make noisemakers - cut numerous
notches in the edges and then attach to a piece of string and whirl them
as fast as possible.

"Cheri" wrote in message news
"Gary" > wrote in message ...
> Janet wrote:
>>
>> The other day I was making braised red cabbage and couldn't find the
>> sultanas, so I used chopped fresh dates instead. Good combination.
>
> Interesting. I've never used them in a recipe. Just had them plain along
> with something else. I'm thinking to eat them combined with dry roasted
> peanuts. Seriously, it's been so many years, I forget the companion to
> dates that I liked so long ago.
>
> Will be fun to try them again after forever.


My mom, and just about everyone else back then, stuffed them with some kind
of nut, almond, cashew, pecan, walnut etc., and then dusted them with
powdered sugar. I like them stuffed with the nuts, but not so much the
powdered sugar on them.

Cheri

======================

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>http://tinyurl.com/zmnvk4yOn Sat, 28 Jan 2017 10:26:12 -0700, graham > wrote:

>On 2017-01-28 9:52 AM, wrote:
>
>>>
>>> Next grocery store trip, I'll look for a box of dates. I assume they
>>> would be in the aisle along with canned fruit?
>>
>> Here they are with the fruit - you can also at this time of year buy
>> the big muscat dates loose.
>>
>Strange but I've never been that fond of cookies or cakes that have
>dates in them. Yet I used to enjoy them at xmas when Mum would buy them
>in those boxes with rounded ends.
>We kept the wooden lids and bases to make noisemakers - cut numerous
>notches in the edges and then attach to a piece of string and whirl them
>as fast as possible.

You're getting old I can remember those boxes too, still can buy
them here but with figs in them.

"Ophelia" > wrote in message
...
> "Cheri" wrote in message news >
> "Gary" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Janet wrote:
>>>
>>> The other day I was making braised red cabbage and couldn't find the
>>> sultanas, so I used chopped fresh dates instead. Good combination.
>>
>> Interesting. I've never used them in a recipe. Just had them plain along
>> with something else. I'm thinking to eat them combined with dry roasted
>> peanuts. Seriously, it's been so many years, I forget the companion to
>> dates that I liked so long ago.
>>
>> Will be fun to try them again after forever.
>
>
> My mom, and just about everyone else back then, stuffed them with some
> kind
> of nut, almond, cashew, pecan, walnut etc., and then dusted them with
> powdered sugar. I like them stuffed with the nuts, but not so much the
> powdered sugar on them.
>
> Cheri
>
> ======================
>
> That is how they were when I was young

Yes, I think you and I are the same age, old enough to have all those great
memories!!!

Cheri

"Cheri" wrote in message news
"Ophelia" > wrote in message
...
> "Cheri" wrote in message news >
> "Gary" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Janet wrote:
>>>
>>> The other day I was making braised red cabbage and couldn't find the
>>> sultanas, so I used chopped fresh dates instead. Good combination.
>>
>> Interesting. I've never used them in a recipe. Just had them plain along
>> with something else. I'm thinking to eat them combined with dry roasted
>> peanuts. Seriously, it's been so many years, I forget the companion to
>> dates that I liked so long ago.
>>
>> Will be fun to try them again after forever.
>
>
> My mom, and just about everyone else back then, stuffed them with some
> kind
> of nut, almond, cashew, pecan, walnut etc., and then dusted them with
> powdered sugar. I like them stuffed with the nuts, but not so much the
> powdered sugar on them.
>
> Cheri
>
> ======================
>
> That is how they were when I was young

Yes, I think you and I are the same age, old enough to have all those great
memories!!!

Cheri

==

I believe so))



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On Sat, 28 Jan 2017 09:23:24 -0800, "Cheri" >
wrote:

>"Gary" > wrote in message ...
>> Janet wrote:
>>>
>>> The other day I was making braised red cabbage and couldn't find the
>>> sultanas, so I used chopped fresh dates instead. Good combination.
>>
>> Interesting. I've never used them in a recipe. Just had them plain along
>> with something else. I'm thinking to eat them combined with dry roasted
>> peanuts. Seriously, it's been so many years, I forget the companion to
>> dates that I liked so long ago.
>>
>> Will be fun to try them again after forever.
>
>
>My mom, and just about everyone else back then, stuffed them with some kind
>of nut, almond, cashew, pecan, walnut etc., and then dusted them with
>powdered sugar. I like them stuffed with the nuts, but not so much the
>powdered sugar on them.
>
>Cheri

This is one of my favorite ways to fix dates.
http://www.kokoscornerblog.com/mycor...re _dish.html
or
http://tinyurl.com/c5kwxux

They are always well received and was a required dish at our rfc
cookins'

koko

--
When you acknowledge, as you must, that there is no perfect food,
only the idea of it, then the real purpose of striving toward perfection
becomes clear; to make people happy, That's what cooking is all about
Thomas Keller: The French Laundry

On Friday, January 27, 2017 at 1:25:48 PM UTC-10, Dave Smith wrote:
> I have always liked the combination of dates and oatmeal. My grandmother
> and my mother both made wonderful oatmeal cookies that could be eaten on
> their own or, even better, as sandwich with a date filling. Once in a
> while I find date turnovers on a bakery and they are always a nice
> treat. This morning I searched for a recipe for the turnovers and
> decided to give them a try.
>
>
> I ran into few snags along the way. The recipe called for a half cup of
> unsalted butter i have a lot of that... in the freezer. It took a while
> to arrange that. Then I had to cool the batter for at least an hour.
> That was another snag because I as going out at noon and would not have
> time to finish. Not a problem. I wrapped it up, stuck it in the fridge
> and came back to it a few hours later.
>
> The cooled dough rolled out nicely. It needed a good dose of flour on
> under and over the dough. Only 15 minutes to bake. The results were
> pretty good.
>
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Date filled cookies are pretty good eats. Too bad I don't get to meet up with them very often. I don't care what you call them. You could call them mini-pizzas and they'd still be tasty.

My grandmother used to make candied dates a lot.

On 2017-01-28 12:01 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On Saturday, January 28, 2017 at 11:50:48 AM UTC-5, Gary wrote:
>> Nancy2 wrote:
>>>
>>> My mom used to make those oatmeal/date filled sandwich cookies. I
>>> have the recipe somewhere. They are really good. The cookie dough is
>>> rolled out pretty thin,mand the date filling is cooked and then cooled before
>>> using. Darn, now I want some. ;-))
>>
>> No recipe but I haven't had dates in forever (way more than 20 years
>> now). I remember liking to eat a mix of dates and nuts...maybe a few
>> raisins too?
>>
>> Next grocery store trip, I'll look for a box of dates. I assume they
>> would be in the aisle along with canned fruit?
>
> It depends on the grocery store. Mine keeps them near the produce
> department. Other stores located them in the candy aisle or with
> the baking things.

Around here they are usually in the baking goods aisle.

Nancy2 > wrote in news:2c52c1b6-347a-4908-8f15-
:

> Alan, can't you just use frozen puff pastry?
>
> N.

Certainly I could, but what I got hung up on was the use of the word
'turnover'. As Dave points out, many of the recipes use the term
'turnover' in the description but produce a folded oatmeal cookie. To me,
a turnover has always been a triangular shaped piece of puff pastry with a
fruit filling. I supose that would work just fine with a date filling.

Serendipitous side event: while Googling my little heart out trying to
resolve my insecurity about what is a turnover, I ran across a recipe for
hamentashan, the traditional Hebrew treat that is a major part, at least to
kids, of Purim, the most joyous of Jewish holidays. Hamentashan are
triangular shaped cookies with fruit fillings that show through the cookie,
as pictured on http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/d...n/hamentashen-
recipe.html. Haven't had them since I was a kid myself when Moses' wife
Zipporah gave me her recipe. A batch of those in now on my calendar.

"koko" > wrote in message
...
> On Sat, 28 Jan 2017 09:23:24 -0800, "Cheri" >
> wrote:
>
>>"Gary" > wrote in message
...
>>> Janet wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The other day I was making braised red cabbage and couldn't find the
>>>> sultanas, so I used chopped fresh dates instead. Good combination.
>>>
>>> Interesting. I've never used them in a recipe. Just had them plain along
>>> with something else. I'm thinking to eat them combined with dry roasted
>>> peanuts. Seriously, it's been so many years, I forget the companion to
>>> dates that I liked so long ago.
>>>
>>> Will be fun to try them again after forever.
>>
>>
>>My mom, and just about everyone else back then, stuffed them with some
>>kind
>>of nut, almond, cashew, pecan, walnut etc., and then dusted them with
>>powdered sugar. I like them stuffed with the nuts, but not so much the
>>powdered sugar on them.
>>
>>Cheri
>
> This is one of my favorite ways to fix dates.
> http://www.kokoscornerblog.com/mycor...re _dish.html
> or
> http://tinyurl.com/c5kwxux
>
> They are always well received and was a required dish at our rfc
> cookins'
>
> koko




I make them wrapped in bacon during the holidays, but never have stuffed
them with chorizo. I will have to try that.

Cheri

On Saturday, January 28, 2017 at 9:26:58 AM UTC-10, koko wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Jan 2017 09:23:24 -0800, "Cheri" >
> wrote:
>
> >"Gary" > wrote in message ...
> >> Janet wrote:
> >>>
> >>> The other day I was making braised red cabbage and couldn't find the
> >>> sultanas, so I used chopped fresh dates instead. Good combination.
> >>
> >> Interesting. I've never used them in a recipe. Just had them plain along
> >> with something else. I'm thinking to eat them combined with dry roasted
> >> peanuts. Seriously, it's been so many years, I forget the companion to
> >> dates that I liked so long ago.
> >>
> >> Will be fun to try them again after forever.
> >
> >
> >My mom, and just about everyone else back then, stuffed them with some kind
> >of nut, almond, cashew, pecan, walnut etc., and then dusted them with
> >powdered sugar. I like them stuffed with the nuts, but not so much the
> >powdered sugar on them.
> >
> >Cheri
>
> This is one of my favorite ways to fix dates.
> http://www.kokoscornerblog.com/mycor...re _dish.html
> or
> http://tinyurl.com/c5kwxux
>
> They are always well received and was a required dish at our rfc
> cookins'
>
> koko
>
> --
> When you acknowledge, as you must, that there is no perfect food,
> only the idea of it, then the real purpose of striving toward perfection
> becomes clear; to make people happy, That's what cooking is all about
> Thomas Keller: The French Laundry

Very interesting dish! Thanks. Here's what I had this for breakfast. The sausages are Filipino longanisa. This is a sweet sausage flavored with vinegar and garlic. Great stuff! Like chorizo, it's probably a good idea to not know what's in it.

https://www.amazon.com/photos/share/...0sNVlDfCE8MJeJ

I saw this at the same place at the mall. It made me laugh.

https://www.amazon.com/photos/share/...H7LExMNgHF6JT4

On Sat, 28 Jan 2017 17:21:19 -0800, "Cheri" >
wrote:

>"koko" > wrote in message
.. .
>> On Sat, 28 Jan 2017 09:23:24 -0800, "Cheri" >
>> wrote:
>>
>>>"Gary" > wrote in message
...
>>>> Janet wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> The other day I was making braised red cabbage and couldn't find the
>>>>> sultanas, so I used chopped fresh dates instead. Good combination.
>>>>
>>>> Interesting. I've never used them in a recipe. Just had them plain along
>>>> with something else. I'm thinking to eat them combined with dry roasted
>>>> peanuts. Seriously, it's been so many years, I forget the companion to
>>>> dates that I liked so long ago.
>>>>
>>>> Will be fun to try them again after forever.
>>>
>>>
>>>My mom, and just about everyone else back then, stuffed them with some
>>>kind
>>>of nut, almond, cashew, pecan, walnut etc., and then dusted them with
>>>powdered sugar. I like them stuffed with the nuts, but not so much the
>>>powdered sugar on them.
>>>
>>>Cheri
>>
>> This is one of my favorite ways to fix dates.
>> http://www.kokoscornerblog.com/mycor...re _dish.html
>> or
>> http://tinyurl.com/c5kwxux
>>
>> They are always well received and was a required dish at our rfc
>> cookins'
>>
>> koko
>
>
>
>
>I make them wrapped in bacon during the holidays, but never have stuffed
>them with chorizo. I will have to try that.
>
>Cheri

I hope you do, they are really deliciuos.

koko

--
When you acknowledge, as you must, that there is no perfect food,
only the idea of it, then the real purpose of striving toward perfection
becomes clear; to make people happy, That's what cooking is all about
Thomas Keller: The French Laundry

On Sat, 28 Jan 2017 17:52:22 -0800 (PST), dsi1 >
wrote:

>On Saturday, January 28, 2017 at 9:26:58 AM UTC-10, koko wrote:
>> On Sat, 28 Jan 2017 09:23:24 -0800, "Cheri" >
>> wrote:
>>
>> >"Gary" > wrote in message ...
>> >> Janet wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> The other day I was making braised red cabbage and couldn't find the
>> >>> sultanas, so I used chopped fresh dates instead. Good combination.
>> >>
>> >> Interesting. I've never used them in a recipe. Just had them plain along
>> >> with something else. I'm thinking to eat them combined with dry roasted
>> >> peanuts. Seriously, it's been so many years, I forget the companion to
>> >> dates that I liked so long ago.
>> >>
>> >> Will be fun to try them again after forever.
>> >
>> >
>> >My mom, and just about everyone else back then, stuffed them with some kind
>> >of nut, almond, cashew, pecan, walnut etc., and then dusted them with
>> >powdered sugar. I like them stuffed with the nuts, but not so much the
>> >powdered sugar on them.
>> >
>> >Cheri
>>
>> This is one of my favorite ways to fix dates.
>> http://www.kokoscornerblog.com/mycor...re _dish.html
>> or
>> http://tinyurl.com/c5kwxux
>>
>> They are always well received and was a required dish at our rfc
>> cookins'
>>
>> koko
>>
>> --
>> When you acknowledge, as you must, that there is no perfect food,
>> only the idea of it, then the real purpose of striving toward perfection
>> becomes clear; to make people happy, That's what cooking is all about
>> Thomas Keller: The French Laundry
>
>Very interesting dish! Thanks. Here's what I had this for breakfast. The sausages are Filipino longanisa. This is a sweet sausage flavored with vinegar and garlic. Great stuff! Like chorizo, it's probably a good idea to not know what's in it.
>
>https://www.amazon.com/photos/share/...0sNVlDfCE8MJeJ
>
>I saw this at the same place at the mall. It made me laugh.
>
>https://www.amazon.com/photos/share/...H7LExMNgHF6JT4

Thank you for that, it made me laugh too. I just might have to try
making something like that. ;-)

koko

--
When you acknowledge, as you must, that there is no perfect food,
only the idea of it, then the real purpose of striving toward perfection
becomes clear; to make people happy, That's what cooking is all about
Thomas Keller: The French Laundry

"Alan Holbrook" wrote in message
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Nancy2 > wrote in news:2c52c1b6-347a-4908-8f15-
:

> Alan, can't you just use frozen puff pastry?
>
> N.

Certainly I could, but what I got hung up on was the use of the word
'turnover'. As Dave points out, many of the recipes use the term
'turnover' in the description but produce a folded oatmeal cookie. To me,
a turnover has always been a triangular shaped piece of puff pastry with a
fruit filling. I supose that would work just fine with a date filling.

Serendipitous side event: while Googling my little heart out trying to
resolve my insecurity about what is a turnover, I ran across a recipe for
hamentashan, the traditional Hebrew treat that is a major part, at least to
kids, of Purim, the most joyous of Jewish holidays. Hamentashan are
triangular shaped cookies with fruit fillings that show through the cookie,
as pictured on http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/d...n/hamentashen-
recipe.html. Haven't had them since I was a kid myself when Moses' wife
Zipporah gave me her recipe. A batch of those in now on my calendar.

===

I am sure they would be better on your plate <g>



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"dsi1" wrote in message
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On Saturday, January 28, 2017 at 9:26:58 AM UTC-10, koko wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Jan 2017 09:23:24 -0800, "Cheri" >
> wrote:
>
> >"Gary" > wrote in message
> ...
> >> Janet wrote:
> >>>
> >>> The other day I was making braised red cabbage and couldn't find the
> >>> sultanas, so I used chopped fresh dates instead. Good combination.
> >>
> >> Interesting. I've never used them in a recipe. Just had them plain
> >> along
> >> with something else. I'm thinking to eat them combined with dry roasted
> >> peanuts. Seriously, it's been so many years, I forget the companion to
> >> dates that I liked so long ago.
> >>
> >> Will be fun to try them again after forever.
> >
> >
> >My mom, and just about everyone else back then, stuffed them with some
> >kind
> >of nut, almond, cashew, pecan, walnut etc., and then dusted them with
> >powdered sugar. I like them stuffed with the nuts, but not so much the
> >powdered sugar on them.
> >
> >Cheri
>
> This is one of my favorite ways to fix dates.
> http://www.kokoscornerblog.com/mycor...re _dish.html
> or
> http://tinyurl.com/c5kwxux
>
> They are always well received and was a required dish at our rfc
> cookins'
>
> koko
>
> --
> When you acknowledge, as you must, that there is no perfect food,
> only the idea of it, then the real purpose of striving toward perfection
> becomes clear; to make people happy, That's what cooking is all about
> Thomas Keller: The French Laundry

Very interesting dish! Thanks. Here's what I had this for breakfast. The
sausages are Filipino longanisa. This is a sweet sausage flavored with
vinegar and garlic. Great stuff! Like chorizo, it's probably a good idea to
not know what's in it.

https://www.amazon.com/photos/share/...0sNVlDfCE8MJeJ

I saw this at the same place at the mall. It made me laugh.

https://www.amazon.com/photos/share/...H7LExMNgHF6JT4

====

Koko's special?? Wow she is even more famous than we knew)



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On Saturday, January 28, 2017 at 6:25:26 PM UTC-10, koko wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Jan 2017 17:52:22 -0800 (PST), dsi1 <dsi1yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> >On Saturday, January 28, 2017 at 9:26:58 AM UTC-10, koko wrote:
> >> On Sat, 28 Jan 2017 09:23:24 -0800, "Cheri" >
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> >"Gary" > wrote in message ...
> >> >> Janet wrote:
> >> >>>
> >> >>> The other day I was making braised red cabbage and couldn't find the
> >> >>> sultanas, so I used chopped fresh dates instead. Good combination.
> >> >>
> >> >> Interesting. I've never used them in a recipe. Just had them plain along
> >> >> with something else. I'm thinking to eat them combined with dry roasted
> >> >> peanuts. Seriously, it's been so many years, I forget the companion to
> >> >> dates that I liked so long ago.
> >> >>
> >> >> Will be fun to try them again after forever.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >My mom, and just about everyone else back then, stuffed them with some kind
> >> >of nut, almond, cashew, pecan, walnut etc., and then dusted them with
> >> >powdered sugar. I like them stuffed with the nuts, but not so much the
> >> >powdered sugar on them.
> >> >
> >> >Cheri
> >>
> >> This is one of my favorite ways to fix dates.
> >> http://www.kokoscornerblog.com/mycor...re _dish.html
> >> or
> >> http://tinyurl.com/c5kwxux
> >>
> >> They are always well received and was a required dish at our rfc
> >> cookins'
> >>
> >> koko
> >>
> >> --
> >> When you acknowledge, as you must, that there is no perfect food,
> >> only the idea of it, then the real purpose of striving toward perfection
> >> becomes clear; to make people happy, That's what cooking is all about
> >> Thomas Keller: The French Laundry
> >
> >Very interesting dish! Thanks. Here's what I had this for breakfast. The sausages are Filipino longanisa. This is a sweet sausage flavored with vinegar and garlic. Great stuff! Like chorizo, it's probably a good idea to not know what's in it.
> >
> >https://www.amazon.com/photos/share/...0sNVlDfCE8MJeJ
> >
> >I saw this at the same place at the mall. It made me laugh.
> >
> >https://www.amazon.com/photos/share/...H7LExMNgHF6JT4
>
> Thank you for that, it made me laugh too. I just might have to try
> making something like that. ;-)
>
> koko
>
> --
> When you acknowledge, as you must, that there is no perfect food,
> only the idea of it, then the real purpose of striving toward perfection
> becomes clear; to make people happy, That's what cooking is all about
> Thomas Keller: The French Laundry

Corned beef hash on top of fried rice topped with eggs - that's a little crazy. The Vienna sausage and Spam take it over the top.

I picked up some good luck food at the Chinese stand at the mall yesterday. Jin dui and gau. Gau is an important food during the lunar new year. It is a brown steamed mochi cake with sesame seeds topped with a red date. The seeds symbolize fertility which I don't need and the red date is for luck. I picked the cake with the biggest date - we need all the luck we can get! The roast pork is not especially lucky but I always get Chinese roast pork when I see it.

https://www.amazon.com/photos/share/...502LRwIs4deenp

On Sunday, January 29, 2017 at 12:38:54 AM UTC-10, Ophelia wrote:
> "dsi1" wrote in message
> ...
>
> On Saturday, January 28, 2017 at 9:26:58 AM UTC-10, koko wrote:
> > On Sat, 28 Jan 2017 09:23:24 -0800, "Cheri" >
> > wrote:
> >
> > >"Gary" > wrote in message
> > ...
> > >> Janet wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> The other day I was making braised red cabbage and couldn't find the
> > >>> sultanas, so I used chopped fresh dates instead. Good combination.
> > >>
> > >> Interesting. I've never used them in a recipe. Just had them plain
> > >> along
> > >> with something else. I'm thinking to eat them combined with dry roasted
> > >> peanuts. Seriously, it's been so many years, I forget the companion to
> > >> dates that I liked so long ago.
> > >>
> > >> Will be fun to try them again after forever.
> > >
> > >
> > >My mom, and just about everyone else back then, stuffed them with some
> > >kind
> > >of nut, almond, cashew, pecan, walnut etc., and then dusted them with
> > >powdered sugar. I like them stuffed with the nuts, but not so much the
> > >powdered sugar on them.
> > >
> > >Cheri
> >
> > This is one of my favorite ways to fix dates.
> > http://www.kokoscornerblog.com/mycor...re _dish.html
> > or
> > http://tinyurl.com/c5kwxux
> >
> > They are always well received and was a required dish at our rfc
> > cookins'
> >
> > koko
> >
> > --
> > When you acknowledge, as you must, that there is no perfect food,
> > only the idea of it, then the real purpose of striving toward perfection
> > becomes clear; to make people happy, That's what cooking is all about
> > Thomas Keller: The French Laundry
>
> Very interesting dish! Thanks. Here's what I had this for breakfast. The
> sausages are Filipino longanisa. This is a sweet sausage flavored with
> vinegar and garlic. Great stuff! Like chorizo, it's probably a good idea to
> not know what's in it.
>
> https://www.amazon.com/photos/share/...0sNVlDfCE8MJeJ
>
> I saw this at the same place at the mall. It made me laugh.
>
> https://www.amazon.com/photos/share/...H7LExMNgHF6JT4
>
> ====
>
> Koko's special?? Wow she is even more famous than we knew)
>
>
>
> --
> http://www.helpforheroes.org.uk

This seems to be the case.

On 1/28/2017 10:48 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>
>
> In high school I used to turn over dates most every week. Then I had a
> date that I kept pretty steady. She still hangs around after 50+ years.

LOL

Jill

On 1/28/2017 12:01 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On Saturday, January 28, 2017 at 11:50:48 AM UTC-5, Gary wrote:
>> Nancy2 wrote:
>>>
>>> My mom used to make those oatmeal/date filled sandwich cookies. I
>>> have the recipe somewhere. They are really good. The cookie dough is
>>> rolled out pretty thin,mand the date filling is cooked and then cooled before
>>> using. Darn, now I want some. ;-))
>>
>> No recipe but I haven't had dates in forever (way more than 20 years
>> now). I remember liking to eat a mix of dates and nuts...maybe a few
>> raisins too?
>>
>> Next grocery store trip, I'll look for a box of dates. I assume they
>> would be in the aisle along with canned fruit?
>
> It depends on the grocery store. Mine keeps them near the produce
> department. Other stores located them in the candy aisle or with
> the baking things.
>
> Cindy Hamilton
>
Date Nut Coconut Candy

2 c. sugar
1 c. milk
1-1/2 Tbs. butter (or, as her recipe stated, butter the size of a walnut)
1 c. chopped dates
1 c. chopped walnuts
1 c. shredded coconut (the pre-sweetened stuff)
1 tsp. vanilla extract

Combine sugar, milk and butter and cook until it reaches the soft ball
stage (test in cold water, mixture will flatten but can be picked up).
Add chopped dates and cook 5 minutes longer. Add chopped walnuts,
coconut and vanilla. Beat until thick. (Grandma didn't use a mixer.
The one time I made it I didn't, either. Just a wooden spoon. It was
lots of work!)

Butter a three inch strip down a length of 6 feet of waxed paper. Spoon
the mixture along the strip. Shape with a knife into a long square
shape, about 1 inch tall. The mixture is very hot! Don't burn your
fingers. Let the candy cool, then cut into 1 inch pieces. Wrap
individual pieces piece in waxed paper.

Jill

On Friday, January 27, 2017 at 6:25:48 PM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
> I have always liked the combination of dates and oatmeal. My grandmother
> and my mother both made wonderful oatmeal cookies that could be eaten on
> their own or, even better, as sandwich with a date filling. Once in a
> while I find date turnovers on a bakery and they are always a nice
> treat. This morning I searched for a recipe for the turnovers and
> decided to give them a try.
>
>
> I ran into few snags along the way. The recipe called for a half cup of
> unsalted butter i have a lot of that... in the freezer. It took a while
> to arrange that. Then I had to cool the batter for at least an hour.
> That was another snag because I as going out at noon and would not have
> time to finish. Not a problem. I wrapped it up, stuck it in the fridge
> and came back to it a few hours later.
>
> The cooled dough rolled out nicely. It needed a good dose of flour on
> under and over the dough. Only 15 minutes to bake. The results were
> pretty good.
>
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There's a Great Grains cereal that has dates, raisins and pecans in it.