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I made spaghetti squash lasagna for dinner on Monday. I used our tomatoes to make the sauce and red bell pepper and spaghetti squash from the farmers market. We now have a full house, since my younger bonus son, his wife, and the two little ones arrived before dinner. We devoured the entire casserole!
Thanks, Joan. This house has not had this many people laughing together in it for a long time. It feels so good.
With two more people here, the rest of the lemon oatmeal cookies vanished quickly, so on Sunday afternoon, I baked Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies.
For Sunday night dinner, I made Vegetable and Shrimp Primavera Pasta, using fettuccine by rifting off of a recipe that appeared in the magazine that United Healthcare used to send to plan members. It used asparagus, which is not in season. I used chopped yellow and green zucchini, a red bell pepper, a bit of green onion, garlic, and halved cherry tomatoes from our plants. I tossed the shrimp in 2 tablespoons of lemon juice and let it rest for 20 minutes before adding it to the vegetables just before I added the pasta. Two of us added freshly grated black pepper to our servings: the other two eschewed it.
Those look dangerous, Mike! My favorite kind!
I posted some weeks back about the recipe for Rory's Scones from King Arthur's last incarnation of The Baking Sheet. I baked these again today for Sunday breakfast. This time I used half whole wheat pastry flour instead of half whole wheat flour, and it makes for a lighter butter-less scone. I also added a tablespoon of canola oil, which I whisked into the buttermilk. It was easy to shape the dough on a well-floured piece of parchment, that I could then use for baking. I cut the 9 x 6-inch rectangle into 24 pieces and baked them for 20 minutes, turning halfway through. I like these tweaks and will continue to use them. We had them at breakfast with homemade peach and blackberry jams and apple butter. Leftovers will provide breakfast for tomorrow.
I made chicken salad for dinner on Saturday, which we had on four Whole Wheat/Rye/Semolina Buns from the freezer. It was a fast dinner, after a round trip to Indianapolis to pick up my bonus daughter and her fiancé. That was around five hours of driving, made longer due to the highway around Kokomo being closed on our side, so we had to drive through Kokomo on the way down but were able to drive around it on the way home.
Joan--My husband saw the picture of your pound cake and said, "That was so good!"
We had Oven Crisp Fish and Chips and Dill Tartar Sauce, along with frozen mixed vegetables for dinner on Friday. Scott and I have been cleaning for the last few days, as his daughter and her fiancé are arriving tomorrow, and on Monday, his younger son, his wife, and their two little ones will arrive for the week. We have not yet tried hosting two groups here at the same time, so we will see how it works. It will be the first time that we have seen the youngest grandson, born in February.
I roasted a chicken on Thursday, which we bought at a good price at the local grocery on Tuesday. I think that they sometimes sell rotisserie ready chickens that they end up not roasting. We had it with the remainder of the stir-fry. It was a busy day for us, as we decided to re-arrange an area of our living room that has never looked right. That also meant removing Annie's favorite chair, which was not in good condition, and that has caused her some anxiety, as she does not like change, and on top of that, we were running the vacuum cleaner. The new area looks great, and Annie has been consoled with some chicken. We are trying to get her to adopt a different chair, but right now, she is ignoring it, so I moved her mat next to the desk.
I forgot to add that I made more refrigerator dill pickles on Wednesday. Our dill is gone from the garden, but we froze a bunch of it to use.
Thanks, Mike. That's helpful.
That is yummy, Joan! I like those meals that go another night.
Our dinner on Wednesday was the last two pork chops, the rest of the zucchini stir-fry, and a new stir-fry of brown and wild rice (from the earlier batch of rice) that I added to sauteed red bell pepper and green onion, then broccoli florets and a cup of chicken broth (Penzey's chicken base, as I did not have a small amount available). There is enough of the stir-fry to have with tomorrow's dinner.
On Tuesday, I baked a Braided Apple Filling loaf. I used my cinnamon roll dough and filling that I froze nearly two years ago. I had a lot of filling and enough was left over that I used the dough that I cut off at the corners to make a mini-braided loaf. I have a baking mat that I bought from King Arthur that has the instructions on how to do a filled bread (also on how to do a six-strand braided bread), but I also looked at the Braided Lemon Bread recipe that they have. I baked the loaves at 350 F, which works better for an oil based rather than a butter based filled loaf. The little loaf was done in about 20 minutes. The larger loaf, toward the back of the oven was done after 25 minutes. I cut the little one in half while it was still warm and had it for tea, leaving the other half for Scott when he got back from the woods to have with his tea. We also each had a slice for dessert. I am pleased that the filling, made with regular Clear Jel held up over the two years. I still have another, larger container of filling to use in sweet rolls.
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We had the leftover pork chops and vegetable stir-fry for dinner on Tuesday.
Well, some critter did hollow out the rinds, so some animal appears to have deigned to eat it.
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