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I'm a firm believer that one can never have too many squash!
Our weather doldrums continue, although we did get some good rain late Monday afternoon. For dinner, I made "Stove-Top Barbecued Chicken," a recipe from Jane Brody's Good Food Book, so that I did not need to turn on the oven. I follow her recipe, except that I use dried onion and delete ½ tsp. chili powder in deference to my husband. We had it with a mixture of brown and wild rice and microwaved fresh broccoli.
I made muddled mashed potatoes on Sunday to go with leftover pork tenderloin. We also had microwaved frozen peas. I pulled out my last little apple barley Bundt cake from the freezer for us to have for dessert. It has been in the low eighties here the past few days, but the humidity is high. I am thankful for leftovers and a stash of frozen baked goods.
That sounds very good, Kimbob.
We had the last of the pizza and a nice salad. So far, we can get good greens at the farmers market.
I also made yogurt today.
Your garden is looking great, Len! Ours went in late. A deer ate the top off of the plant I bought at last week's farmers market that my husband had planted in a grow bag. It's on the side of the house, so outside of the fence. He plans to put some Deer Out on it, which is what he uses for his trees.
I was also underwhelmed by this list of kitchen gadgets. I think it was compiled by an influencer who gets financial rewards. That is one reason I unsubscribed from the Serious Eats newsletter: too much selling of gadgets. I do like having a kitchen scale, but so far, the one I bought at Ross nearly 20 years ago is doing well. I tried a scale with a larger weighing area from King Arthur over ten years ago and hated it, as it had no toggle on top for going from grams to English weights (it was on the underside of the scale!), then the batteries leaked, and it was gone. I've stuck with the small scale ever since, although as Mike has mentioned, sometimes I have to put the bowl on something on the platform in order to be able to read it.
I do have some silicone lids, but those are for temporary covering or microwaving. They do not seal well enough to keep smells out of the refrigerator.
Thursday's dinner was leftover roasted potato chunks, more of the pork tenderloin, microwaved fresh broccoli, and applesauce from the freezer.
When you mention your tomato sandwiches Joan, I find myself eagerly anticipating tomato season here, which given the weather we have had, and also getting our own tomatoes in late, is not going to happen for a while.
Skeptic--I made my quiche in a 9-inch, deep dish, Emile Henry pie dish. I cut it into six slices and have a slice of toast with it. I used five eggs rather than four, because I had some smaller ones from the farmers market. I think it is the best quiche I've made using this recipe, which I try to bake once a year when asparagus is in season. I seem to be more of a "bit of sweet" person at breakfast, so usually I prefer eggs at lunch.
I had the first slice of my Asparagus Goat Cheese Quiche for lunch today. It is the best I have made.
For dinner, we each had a slice of leftover sourdough pan pizza and a nice salad featuring cherry tomatoes from the farmers market.
When we were at the local grocery store yesterday for our weekly shopping trip, I found pork tenderloin at a good price, so on Wednesday, I made Maple-Glazed Pork Tenderloin for dinner, and halved roasted baby potatoes. We were going to have a salad, but we had a family phone call, so we had microwaved frozen peas instead.
I baked an Asparagus Goat Cheese Quiche on Wednesday. It was going to be done too late for lunch, as it needed to rest for an hour or two after coming out of the oven. My husband is not fond of quiche, nor does he care for asparagus, so it is now refrigerated, and I will begin eating it for lunch tomorrow, although I have not ruled it out as breakfast food.
Sourdough pan pizza!
I baked a doubled recipe of my Scottish Oatcakes recipe on Tuesday. Doubling it did not cause any baking issues. I cut these with a 2-inch biscuit cutter, with a yield of 31. We like having these at teatime with a bit of my homemade jam spread on them.
For Tuesday night's dinner, I made Sourdough Pan Pizza. The crust came out very well, in part because the starter has been fed twice in less than a week. I am also getting better at adjusting the recipe to the Ankarsrum.
On Monday, I baked Whole Wheat Sourdough Crackers from dough that I made last week.
Monday night's dinner was the rest of the potato salad and chicken thighs, along with microwaved frozen peas.
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