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On Saturday. I made broth from the bones of the Easter chicken. I then used the broth to make soup with ground turkey, sliced carrots, celery, and mushrooms, chopped mini-bell peppers in red, yellow, and orange, dried onion, 1 Tbs Penzey's Ozark seasoning, and Bob's Red Mill mix of brown and red lentils, split green and yellow peas, and barley. After it simmered, I sauteed kale in olive oil, then stirred it into the pot.
Scott helped with the soup by slicing the mushrooms for me. I fell in town today, due to a new handicapped sidewalk corner that on its upper side had a sloping curb. I had stopped to tie my shoe on the regular curb, as I have often done in the past, then without realizing it, stepped on the unexpectedly slanted part and pitched forward onto the regular sidewalk. The lower parts of my hands got the major force, although I skinned the left knee and slightly abraded the other. My chin also hit the pavement, and all I could think was, "Oh, really? No one was around, so I got up and went on to the farmers market, then the thrift store, and CVS. I know from other falls I have taken in the past that eventually, but not right away, my body would inform me of what damage was done. I came home, did two loads of laundry, baked cookies, sat at the computer, and then both hands were in pain, rather like arthritis, perhaps. However, the left one, particularly the wrist is in worse shape. I cannot put any pressure on it, but it is fine when kept stationary in a certain position. I managed to cut up most of the vegetables for the soup, opting to slice the carrots and celery. However, I asked for Scott's help with the mushrooms, because pressing to hold it stable with the left hand was difficult. I have iced it and will do so again. I'm hoping it will clear up in a couple of days.
I made Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies after lunch and used a cup of peanut butter chips. I got three dozen, so that should hold us for a while.
I baked the Butterscotch Apple Sweet Rolls on Friday morning and had two for breakfast. They came out very well. The apple filling is still tasty, so the Winesaps are a good substitution when I cannot get the Rubenettes, although I can taste a difference. I went ahead and made another batch of the filling to freeze.
On Friday afternoon, I made another batch of the filling for Butterscotch Apple Sweet Rolls and froze it.
For dinner, I made Crispy Oven Fish and Chips with Dill Tartar Sauce, which we had with fresh microwaved broccoli.
We did our big shopping trip to the county seat this morning, where we also got our Covid boosters. In the afternoon, I made dough for Whole Wheat Sourdough Cheese Crackers.
After dinner, I made dough for Butterscotch Apple Sweet Rolls. I spread the dough with the apple filling I made two days ago, then rolled up the dough, cut it, and put the slices in a greased glass dish and covered them with saran. I will let them rise overnight and bake them in the morning. I used the Ankarsrum for mixing, and I had to add an additional 2 Tbs. of buttermilk. Next time, I may hold back a quarter cup of the AP flour, or else use ½ cup of water at the start.
Len, I sometimes think that I should keep a list of what is in the freezer so that I do a better job of rotating items.
Tonight, we had chicken salad sandwiches again, with spinach on the buns I baked yesterday. I had some baby raw carrots as well.
I baked Whole Wheat/Rye/Semolina buns (adaptation of Len's great recipe) on Wednesday so that we could have chicken salad sandwiches for dinner.
On Wednesday, I made Caramelized Squash and Lentil Soup, using Daniela Galarza's recipe that I first tried about a month ago. I used a butternut squash, the last of my winter squash hoard. I had some for lunch and will have the rest at lunch during the rest of the week.
For dinner, I made Chicken salad to have on the buns I baked today.
Let us know, Kimbob. My though is that it should work like buttermilk.
Joan--Have a wonderful trip and enjoy that sweet little great-granddaughter!
I made yogurt on Tuesday. I also made apple filling for Butterscotch Apple Sweet Rolls, which I plan to bake in a few days. I used eight small Winesap apples. My apples have kept well in the garage, where we keep the temperature in the upper 30s to low 40s, but I need to use them up. I usually make the filling with Rubenette apples, but those were only available briefly in the fall, and I am not sure that vendor will continue having them, so I want to see if the Winesaps will work in their place.
Glad to hear that Will is taking such good care of you, CWCdesign.
Monday night's dinner was leftover roast chicken and dressing, more of the applesauce, and a very nice green salad.
Picaridin also protects against chigger mite bites. I was able to avoid them last year when I picked blackberries. Note: it's not the chiggers, it's their mites that are the problem.
That's exactly what happened to me last week, Kimbob. I found the tick while showering. I finished up my antibiotics last Tuesday. From now on, I go into the woods doused in Picaridin, which works very well. (CWCdesign told me about it.) I got mine from REI.
We had an unconventional Easter dinner of roast chicken, Pepperidge Farm Dressing (Blue Bag, of course), and microwaved fresh broccoli, applesauce from the freezer, with more apple cake for dessert, as well as an Easter Egg York peppermint patty.
Oh, and the UCLA women won the basketball championship! This Bruin is quite happy about that.
We had the last of the pork loin slices for dinner on Saturday. I roasted potato chunks to go with them, and we also had microwaved frozen mixed vegetables.
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