What are You Cooking the Week of August 3, 2025?

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August 3, 2025 at 8:19 pm #46943
BakerAunt
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Scott and I picked more blackberries on Sunday morning. In the afternoon, I de-seeded blackberries from our previous picking. I froze two containers of 12 oz. of the pulpy puree to use in future blackberry brownie recipes. I then made two batches of blackberry jam, with four half-pints in each batch.

For dinner, we had the rest of the turkey-zucchini loaf and more sweet corn on the cob.

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August 4, 2025 at 7:57 pm #46945
BakerAunt
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For dinner on Monday, I roasted six chicken thighs. Scott skinned them for me, then I rubbed the tops with a bit of low-fat mayonnaise, then dipped them in ¾ cup of toasted panko mixed with 1 tsp. Smokey Paprika and ½ tsp. onion powder. We had the roasted chicken with the last two ears of sweet corn and some microwaved frozen peas.
August 4, 2025 at 8:12 pm #46947
Joan Simpson
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I had a grilled cheese sandwich with chicken soup.
August 5, 2025 at 12:12 pm #46948
navlys
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We had shrimp baked with tomatoes and feta cheese. Tonight will be sauteed steak with shallots and peppers rolled in a flour tortilla with cole slaw on the side. (I am out of onions).

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August 5, 2025 at 1:21 pm #46949
Joan Simpson
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I'm having chili from the freezer.
August 5, 2025 at 6:41 pm #46950
chocomouse
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Dinner tonight was grilled chicken with zucchini and yellow squash, green beans, and marinated cucumbers.
August 5, 2025 at 7:59 pm #46954
BakerAunt
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We did our big shopping run to a nearby small city on Tuesday, where we also had other errands to run. After lunch, we did our usual local shopping trip. In the afternoon, I made peach jam, using Michigan peaches that I bought at the farmers market last Saturday. I ended up with four half-pints and one 4 oz. jar, as well as some in a jar in the refrigerator. I am not certain how well it set, as the jam in the refrigerated jar is runny. I will see what the canned jars look like tomorrow. I was glad that we had leftover chicken for dinner tonight along with microwaved broccoli and more sweet corn, the latter a gift from our neighbors to the north who have a farm. They said that raccoons got their first planting, but this second one escaped the marauders.
August 5, 2025 at 8:02 pm #46956
cwcdesign
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I had tabbouleh that I made Sunday for the week. I put it in half a whole wheat pita with lettuce - just right for all this heat - not as bad as last week, but still really hot.

This time I wrote down my proportions as I had combined two different recipes and I'm happy with my adaptation.
August 6, 2025 at 10:09 am #46961
Mike Nolan
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I've got about 6 pounds of tomatoes (mostly small ones) so I think I'm going to try to make a batch of tomato relish with them later today.
August 6, 2025 at 11:13 am #46962
BakerAunt
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Note on Wednesday: the peach jam is a bit runny. Next time, I will increase the cooking time on the jam maker by 2 minutes if I have particularly juicy peaches. The only drawback to the Ball jam maker is that increasing the default cooking time must be done in advance; it is not possible to add time at the end.
August 6, 2025 at 5:46 pm #46963
Joan Simpson
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I had fish sticks on a hotdog bun with homemade tartar sauce.
August 6, 2025 at 6:20 pm #46965
BakerAunt
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Wednesday night dinner was the rest of the chicken thighs, more sweet corn, and microwaved frozen peas.
August 6, 2025 at 7:24 pm #46969
Mike Nolan
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We had hot dogs on the buns I baked today.
August 6, 2025 at 9:50 pm #46973
Mike Nolan
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I have a small batch of tomato relish on tonight, about 4 pounds of skinned tomatoes, 3 large onions, 4 bell peppers, 3 cups of vinegar, 3/4 cup of sugar and 1 1/2 tablespoons of salt.
August 7, 2025 at 3:39 pm #46980
Joan Simpson
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I had left over pizza from my friends.
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