What are you Cooking the Week of July 7, 2024?

[BakerAunt]

Our Friday night dinner was leftover black-eyed peas with rice and ham.

I was sorting through our washed berries and was disappointed that we appear to have gotten a lot of over ripe ones, although we picked in the area to which we were directed. I froze eight 4-cup bags today and will sort the rest tomorrow. I will need to figure out what recipe might work for the marginal ones.

[chocomouse]

Our dinner last night was a ham steak with fresh green beans and a summer squash. My husband is eating the leftover raspberry jam bars for his before bed snack.

[Mike Nolan]

BA, Cook's Illustrated has a recipe for a blueberry galette made with rough/quick puff pastry that might be a good use for those slightly over-ripe berries.

This link seems to work today, but with CI you never know:

https://www.americastestkitchen.com/cooksillustrated/articles/8168-how-to-make-a-blueberry-galette

Another possibility is a clafoutis, which is easier to make. Another link that may or may not work in the future.

https://www.epicurious.com/expert-advice/how-to-make-clafoutis-with-any-kind-of-fruit-article

I think clafoutis are similar to Dutch babies, just thicker:

https://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-make-a-dutch-baby-pancake-227629

I've sometimes wondered whether the batter for a Dutch baby could be frozen, I'm pretty sure the pancake itself could be.

[BakerAunt]

Thanks, Mike. I saw your post after I used the 2 1/4 cups of marginal blueberries to make Blueberry Chia Seed jam, using a recipe at Kitchn:

https://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-make-easy-chia-jam-with-any-fruit-222310

I used 4 Tbs. of sugar and just 1 Tbs. lemon juice; indeed, the lemon juice seemed a bit strong, which is why I added more sugar. I increased the chia seed to 2 Tbs. and 2 tsp. I will let it rest in the refrigerator for a day or so. My plan is to try it with the Oat Jam bars recipe.

[Joan Simpson]

I had a hotdog with sauerkraut and yogurt.

[chocomouse]

Our dinner was ribs, with potato salad and orzo-spinach salad.

[Mike Nolan]

We had the 2nd half of the lahvosh pizza tonight.

[BakerAunt]

For dinner tonight, we had leftover roasted chicken breast. I also roasted more potato chunks and small carrots tossed in olive oil. We microwaved a few green beans--the first to be ready from our garden.

[RiversideLen]

I made pork loin chops, pasta and green beans and carrot.

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