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Tuesday night dinner was chicken salad sandwiches on buns, and Scott also made us salads.
For too long, I have been ignoring a partial and a full bag of cranberries in the produce drawer of my refrigerator, so on Monday, I sorted through them and threw away the bad ones. I froze some and used another heaping cup to bake my oil-based Cranberry Scones. I usually mix half King Arthur AP with half of their Irish-style flour, but as I have a lot of whole wheat pastry flour, I decided to use it in a 2:1 ration to the AP flour. I also added ½ tsp. of orange extract to my usual recipe. The dough was sturdy enough that I patted it into an 8-inch circle, then cut it into triangles that I spread out on the baking sheet. I cut the baking time to 21 minutes, which was perfect.
Dinner on Monday night was leftover split pea soup and cornbread.
I baked cornbread on Saturday to go with more of the split pea soup for dinner.
That pizza does sound interesting, Mike.
We were out of cookies to have with our tea, so on Friday, I baked my healthier version of Oatmeal Scotchies. They are healthier because I use white whole wheat flour and replace the two sticks of butter with half a cup of avocado oil and 3 Tbs. water. I also add 2 Tbs. each milk powder and flax meal, and a half cup of sunflower seeds. I realize that the package of Nestles Butterscotch chips is indulgence, but hey, the cookies do have oats!
For dinner on Friday, I made Split Pea soup, using a large ham bone that I had bought and frozen a couple of months ago. Our weather has been cooler, and it is very breezy this evening, so the soup was a perfect meal, with leftovers for future dinners.
I decided to bake bread on Thursday, as Scott finished the current loaf for lunch. Although I still have a loaf of bread in the freezer, I have been wanting to try "Clay's Multigrain Sourdough Sandwich Bread," which was featured in a King Arthur catalogue and is on their website. I made a few changes by increasing the whole wheat flour and using bread flour instead of AP and replacing the sugar with honey. I also reduced the salt to ¾ tsp. I inadvertently put in too much flour, but as I have a soupier starter than most people, it came out ok. The catalogue called for it to be baked in King Arthur's stoneware loaf pan, but there is not enough dough for an 11 x 5 x 31/2-inch pan. I used an Emile Henry 8 ½ x 4 ½-inch loaf pan (greased and coated with semolina), but the loaf is small. The bread got rave reviews in the comments, so I will see what we think we I slice it tomorrow.
We had more of the roasted chicken breast and ate the rest of the vegetable stir-fry. The bok choy is rather strong, and Scott prefers that I not buy any more of it.
Now that we are done dashing west and north, my husband has been planting the garden. On Saturday, I bought a Dester Indiana tomato plant, two purple cherry tomato plants, and a red cherry tomato plant, along with a dill plant. Those are in the garden. We had four organic potatoes that were past eating, so my husband planted those. Two years ago, we got a nice potato crop; last year's did not do well. My husband also started some Dester tomatoes, but those are not large enough for transplant yet. The green beans are planted. The cucumbers for pickles are planted. In addition to the dill plant I bought, we had some volunteer from last year come up. We are also trying fairy tale pumpkin again. My husband is considering planting some Early Girls tomatoes.
The garden was a bit slowed down when we got back from our trip to the wedding in San Diego because Scott started hoeing, and the ground suddenly exploded as two larger baby bunnies and two smaller ones bounded out of a nest. Scott managed to put the two smaller ones back, but the best he could do with the larger ones was herd them away from our road on which people drive too fast. He left the garden alone for five days or so after that, then discovered that the bunnies are all gone.
Mike--The package both said "chicken breasts" on the wrapping, and "split chicken" on the sales tag. I first started seeing these conflicting labels earlier this year. Up until then, it was just labeled chicken breasts, sometimes saying "bone-in."
That sounds delicious, Skeptic. I hope that we will have local strawberries this year. Last year, was not a great strawberry year in my area.
When we went to the local grocery store yesterday, I found a package of chicken breasts, with a May 19 sell-by date, marked down $3, The package was also marked "split chicken," which I have bought before. I speculate that these are the ones cut by the trainees. So, for dinner on Wednesday, I roasted them with a bit of olive oil and a coating of Penzey's Justice seasoning. To go with the chicken, I used some of the broth I made on Monday and cooked farro in it, which I added to a stir-fry of carrots, bell pepper, celery, and some bok choy I found at the farmers market last Saturday. I added some poultry seasoning. We have leftovers for tomorrow and beyond. For dessert, I pulled out the small Chocolate Blood Orange cake I had frozen and glazed it.
There are some fine-looking dinners showing up on this thread!
Our Tuesday night dinner was the rest of the turkey-spinach loaf and a nice salad.
I placed the order yesterday morning, and it arrived today! That's fast. All items arrived in excellent condition, including the two glass jars of almond butter that were carefully wrapped. Based on the first order, I'm impressed. A lot will depend on whether they continue to offer good coupons and free shipping over a certain amount. I did not need to buy any 5-lb. bags of flour, as I am nicely stocked with whole wheat and bread flour (BRM) from my last Vitacost order, but I noted that there were no 5-lb bags of flour offered, just the smaller bags of BRM rye, cornmeal, etc. It will be a bummer if I cannot get those two flours when I need to reorder.
A regular feature of Scott's cousins' reunion is that we always have "Thanksgiving" with a turkey. When we held the reunion in October, that was seasonable, but we still had turkey and stuffing for a special meal this May. I am the only one who wants to deal with the turkey bones once the meat is removed, so we brought it back with us. On Monday, I made it into broth, adding some chicken bones that I had in the freezer.
I roasted sweet potato chunks for dinner to go with more of the turkey-spinach loaf, which we had with microwaved fresh broccoli as well.
We had moderate heat with humidity today, but we got some light rain, which cooled us down a little.
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