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RiversideLen.I've returned home from a little 3-day "vacation" in the hospital - ready to bake! So I made Lemon-Oatmeal Sugar cookies. I've scooped them and they are chilling in the fridge. We have a new freezer, so I am gradually moving goods to the new one. The new freezer is smaller than the old one, so it's a bit of a challenge to organize everything, although I Know it will fit.
Chocomouse I hope you're ok with your mini vacation and enjoy your new freezer.
Today I had a sausage dog and my side was a chocolate dipped cone from Dairy Queen... what could get better 🙂
I made and canned four 8-oz jars of de-seeded blackberry jam on Wednesday. It may not be an abundant blackberry season unless we get rain soon. I am hoping for the predicted storms on Friday afternoon. The berries are smaller this year, and I needed nearly two quarts to get that batch, but the flavor is exceptionally good.
For dinner, we had salmon patties with mixed salad greens on top in Oat Wheat Sandwich Buns. We were too lazy to do more of a vegetable than that, and there was not enough lettuce for a salad. We had a high of 93 today.
Glad you are back from "vacation" Chocomouse.
Those kind of 'vacations' are never much fun. Glad you're home.
I had two online meetings this evening so I just had a quick sandwich.
I had a salad with some sliced beef on it, and two small cherry plums. (They're sweeter than regular plums.)
I had a tomato sandwich and chocolate pudding.
I made yogurt on Thursday.
For dinner, we had leftover stove top barbecued chicken and brown rice, and I sauteed more zucchini chunks. I'm delighted to have found a way to get my husband to eat more zucchini, other than in baked items or mixed into soups or stir-fries.
We had a very hot day in the mid-90s, and we also have heavy haze from the wildfires in Canada and Minnesota.
We had hamburgers and chips at my friends today.
I had a hamburger, mashed potato and broccoli.
I made coleslaw on Friday, using a cabbage that I bought a couple of weeks ago at the farmers market. I accidentally added too much cider vinegar, so I had to balance it out with the sugar, so the coleslaw is a bit sweeter than it would be. We had it with the rest of the salmon patties on buns tonight.
The smoky air finally dissipated in the afternoon, but it will likely return. We did get rain this afternoon, so that should help the blackberries.
We had Chicago dogs from a take-out place tonight.
Roasted veggies I bought at the farmers market today -- zucchini, white Japanese eggplant, shimeji mushrooms, onion, garlic, rosemary, olive oil, fig balsamic vinegar. The house smells wonderful!
Made pesto yesterday.
I'm making a pork loin sous vide today. I cut off the fat and the chain and will use it for something like lard or suet for the birds.
That sounds really good, Kimbob.
We had more coleslaw, along with the rest of the stovetop barbecued chicken and brown/wild rice. we had thunderstorms in the afternoon, and it is cooling down to more normal temperatures.
The pork loin came out great, I coated it with some mustard and then rubbed a mixture of salt, pepper, mustard powder and thyme on it. I also put a little orange juice in the sous vide bag.
We both had a little with supper (tuna melt), but the majority of it will be thin sliced for sandwiches, salads, omelets, etc.
