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We moved to Denver (Longmont) two years ago and I find that I need to make adjustments to many baking recipes. Normal recipes are OK, but I find that everything is a little flat and dense. I know the request was for a Kindle book, but I *highly* recommend the Pie In the Sky book by Susan Purdy. She demonstrates how there's not a one size fits all solution to fixing recipes and everything I've made from the book is great.

I and my family are big fans of the breakfast bar recipe in the Nigella Express book. Oats, nuts, dried cranberry, coconut, condensed milk. Certainly not diet food, but they *really* stick with you.

I agree with see. If you know them pretty well, it can be a kind gesture. We try to clean up pretty well before a babysitter comes, but the kitchen usually gets the door closed. We don't have a dishwasher and one night a pretty good friend babysat for us who knows what a pain doing dishes is for us. When we came home she had done all of our dishes. Yes, I was a little embarrassed, but incredibly grateful. I knew she was doing it to help us.