What are you Cooking the Week of July 27, 2025?

[BakerAunt]

A little cooking comic relief:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/comics/rhymes-with-orange-by-hilary-price-and-rina-piccolo/ss-AA1Ju4uD?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=688a7fe5bb59483db11ddc02c88093a7&ei=19

[cwcdesign]

Your dinner sounds delicious BA!

I had chicken salad with greens and tomato (camparis are the best I can do at Harris Teeter) and a slice of toast.

I love the cartoon - as few bowls as possible for me😜

[Joan Simpson]

Your salad with green beans and feta sounds so good BakerAunt. Tonight I made chicken tenders in the air fryer with cucumbers and a onion I sautéed on top of the stove. I liked the cartoon too, few bowls for me too.

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[RiversideLen]

Your dinner looks wonderful, Joan. A very attractive dinner plate too!

Fewer bowls for me too, in fact make them paper bowls if I can!

Yesterday I made pizza with leftover pork tenderloin. I'm trying to perfect my method in the toaster oven. After I formed the crust on a parchment circle, I shredded some parm on it and baked it on the pizza pan for 3 minutes, this time using the middle shelf. That fully melted the parm. Then I removed the parchment and applied the toppings. Returned it to the oven, middle shelf, for 12 minutes. It came out pretty good, the bottom of the crust was golden. I think this is it.

The crust was 40% white whole wheat and 30% each of semolina and bread flour. I used milk instead of water, a dollop of honey and a splash of olive oil.

I was able to make it perfectly round because I formed it entirely by hand, no rolling pin involved. Sometimes you get lucky.

I have dough for one more pizza, maybe tomorrow.

For tonight I will make a stir fry with the rest of the pork tenderloin, green beans, sugar snap peas, carrot and mushrooms. Probably will have it over rice.

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[BakerAunt]

Your dinner looks great, as always Joan.

Len's pizza also looks good. Interesting that you shaped it by hand. I find these days that I am less and less likely to reach for a rolling pin when shaping dough for pizza, sweet rolls, or bread. I primarily save the rolling pin for crackers and pie crust.

I made another jar of refrigerator dill pickles on Thursday. This jar uses pickling cucumbers and dill, both from our garden. We will let them rest in the refrigerator for two days before we start eating them.

For dinner tonight, we had more of the green bean salad, and we finished the chicken salad, which we had as open-faced sandwiches on the Maple Oat buns that I baked today.

[BakerAunt]

Scott and I went back out to the meadow area in our woodlands and picked blackberries for two hours on Friday morning. Due to the drought we had last month, the blackberries are not as abundant as they were last year, but we still picked four quarts. I hope to go out once more on Sunday. After lunch, I began deseeding blackberries, starting with the ones from our last outing and ones I picked on our terrace. Once I had two four-cup containers, I did another 12 oz. and froze those for later use in my blackberry brownie recipe. Then I made a batch of jam before dinner, which yielded three half-pint and one 4 oz. jar. After dinner, I made the second batch, which yielded four half-pint jars. I heard all the jars seal, which is a glorious sound.

In between my jam making sessions, I made Turkey-Zucchini Loaf with Peach-Dijon Glaze for dinner. I used a golden arrow, which is the yellow zucchini squash, and I grated the whole one in, as it was getting old. Scott really liked the flavor, and it is a milder one than the green zucchini. We had the meat loaf with the rest of the green bean salad and a maple-oat roll. I am tired but looking forward to more jam making tomorrow.

[navlys]

BA do you put your jam in a water bath?

[Joan Simpson]

Len your pizza looks great I'm ready for pizza sometime soon.

I'm going to a friends down the road poker game and we're having pulled pork he's smoking a Boston butt, I've got baked beans in the oven to go with that.

[BakerAunt]

Hi, Navlys--Yes, I do a water bath for the jam. That is ten minutes at boiling, then turn off the heat, remove the lid and allow to rest for 5 minutes before removing from the water bath onto a towel on the counter to rest. I check the seals the next day.

Joan--I am beginning to think that poker is secondary to food at your poker games, which suggests that you all have your priorities straight!

[BakerAunt]

I had good intentions, but I decided to take the day off on Saturday from jam making. For dinner we had more of the Turkey-Zucchini Loaf with our first sweet corn of the season from the farmers market. It was wonderful.

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