What are you Cooking the Week of July 6, 2025?

[BakerAunt]

We had a busy day, so we re-ran last night's stir-fry.

[RiversideLen]

I had an Italian sausage sandwich with sweet peppers and a large salad.

[Mike Nolan]

We had burgers on the grill. I'm almost out of the low-carb buns I got at Aldi and I haven't seen the there lately. I've tried a few other low-carb buns, was not impressed with them. I may have to go back to trying to make an acceptable keto-friendly bun again. (Haven't tried them with Carbalose yet.)

I'm making a batch of custard for me tonight (not the low-carb version.)

[BakerAunt]

I hope all went well with your dental surgery, Mike.

Scott and I went to our local blueberry farm on Friday. We arrived before 8 a.m. and left with twenty pounds of blueberries at 10:30. Tonight, I will wash them and spread them on paper-towel lined trays to dry overnight before I freeze most of them.

I made my last batch of black raspberry jam and got five half-pint jars. I heard at least four pings, so I know that most sealed.

I roasted six chicken thighs for dinner. We each had one with the remainder of the potato salad. Chicken has been more expensive lately, but Kroger had a package of ten on sale for $1.29 per pound when we shopped yesterday. I froze four for later.

I also made yogurt.

[Joan Simpson]

Coleslaw for the fish fry tonight. This was a precut slaw I was gifted so I chopped it finer with my processor and added the rest. of ingredients.

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[chocomouse]

I'm so jealous, Baker Aunt! The blueberry U-Pick my sister and I go to in Maine is not opening this summer; I know there are plenty of others, but this place is special. I don't understand - they're closed for "financial reasons" and not sure if they will open next summer or not. Well, the berries are on the bushes, and they are surely not going to make any money letting them fall to the ground! My own 10 bushes are not loaded with berries this year. I did see a bear walking around the back yard this morning, checking out the blueberries, raspberries, and apple trees - so there is hope.

[BakerAunt]

That is so sad, Chocomouse. We have been going to this place for nearly twenty years. It was sold to new owners five years ago, but the owners were careful about the couple to whom they sold it, and so far, they are committed to keeping it and are doing booming business. Is the place only a U-pick, or does it also do commercial blueberries? I ask because I read that the blueberry business is highly dependent on Canada, in that the blueberries are grown in the U.S. but processed in Canada before coming back. (I think this was in a Marketplace email. I wish that I could recall the details more clearly. With the tariff-stuff, a lot of integrated industries will have problems.

Our dinner tonight was leftover stir-fry. I did not cook at all today, but I did bag and freeze thirteen 4-cup bags of blueberries.

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