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Our Sunday dinner was Turkey Zucchini Meat Loaf with Peach-Dijon Glaze and a Penzey's quinoa salad recipe that calls for corn and lima beans. I'm actually posting this note while the turkey loaf is in the oven, but it will be true in another half hour!
Len, I showed the pictures to my husband. His first degree was in forestry, and he still works with lots of trees in our woods, planting, protecting from deer, sometimes taking them down. He said that the area looks dead, which is why the bark would be peeling. It may be some kind of disease that peach trees get, caused by a fungus.
My husband just moved his two citrus trees, one grown from a tangerine seed and the other from a blood orange seed, outside for the summer. We doubt they will ever have fruit, but they are getting rather large.
I baked Bittersweet Blackberry Brownies on Saturday night using more of the frozen blackberry puree I made last summer.
For dinner on Saturday, I made black-eyed peas with brown rice, ham from the freezer, yellow bell pepper, chopped celery, kale, dried onion, and thyme. The weather is still cool, with a high in the upper 60s today, but that will change by Monday.
What a beautiful pie, Joan!
I baked Blackberry Jam Oatmeal bars on Friday. With a bonus son here, we are going through desserts fast!
I roasted six chicken thighs for dinner on Friday. We had the chicken with leftover potato salad from Monday and a green salad with spinach, cherry tomatoes, and carrots.
We finished last night's pork stir-fry and had some of the chicken and farro stir-fry from earlier.
Thanks for the tick removal tip, Joan. These are really small ticks. My doctor said that they are particularly adept at getting into hair and moving out onto the body from there. Scott and I are now nervous about any itch at all.
I have decided that the Doxycycline I'm taking for ten days is, for me, best taken with some kind snack. However, I have engineered my baking to boost calcium to prevent bone loss. I went back through my baking notebooks to find recipes where I can leave out the milk or powdered milk, so that I can have a snack to go with the medication. That gave me two baking projects for Wednesday.
The first one was a rye raisin bread. I had a recipe from Food & Wine that I made once before by baking it in the bread bowl I bought from King Arthur. However, I thought about the KABC recipe for "Everything Bagel Pumpernickel Bread," which is really easy and comes together fast, with almost no kneading. The ingredients are almost the same, except that the F&W recipe uses more whole rye flour, a bit more water, and more salt, and does not use any oil. So, I decided to use the technique of the "Everything Bagel Pumpernickel Bread," with the ingredients for the F&W bread, although I did add a tablespoon of avocado oil. I also adopted the shaping and the baking time from the KABC recipe. The loaf came out very well, and I am looking forward to slicing and sampling it tomorrow.
The other recipe I selected was "Baked Pumpkin Spice Doughnuts with Maple Glaze," which is my favorite baked pumpkin doughnut. While I sometimes just sprinkle them with Penzey's Cinnamon Sugar, I decided the weather is cool enough to do the glaze. As Scott and son also like them, the dozen doughnuts will not last long.
I made a pork stir-fry with soba noodles for dinner on Wednesday, using the leftover pork from earlier this week and the deglazing from it, along with carrots, celery, three colors of mini-bell peppers, green onion, and the rest of the Bok Choy that I bought at the farmers market. Other than the cutting and slicing, the meal comes together quickly.
We had leftover soup for dinner tonight. It was good not to have to cook because I had an "emergency" doctor's appointment this afternoon. See details under member news.
Wow! A lot of baking is going on. On Tuesday, I baked blueberry cobbler, a favorite of my elder bonus son. I also made dough for more Whole Wheat Sourdough Cheese Crackers.
We do not usually do anything special for Memorial Day, but I made our favorite potato salad today. I made a change in that instead of boiling the potatoes, I steamed them. I think that it improved taste and texture, and I will make that change permanent.
I bought a pound of hamburger at the farmers market on Saturday, and my elder bonus son grilled hamburgers for us. (My husband has many skills, but grilling is not one of them.) I had four buns in the freezer (Len's recipe), so I pulled them out. Our charcoal "grill" is a very old, low to the ground one that belonged to Scott's parents. I think that we last used it two years ago.
I baked Spiced Rye Ginger Cookies (a KABC recipe) on Sunday. My only two changes are to halve the salt and add a tablespoon of milk powder. I rolled them in a combination of white, red, and blue coarse sugar from King Arthur, which does not sell the colored coarse, sparkling sugars anymore, just the white.
For dinner on Sunday, I roasted two bone-in chicken breasts and made a farro-vegetable stir-fry with carrots, celery, green onion, yellow bell pepper, mushrooms, and spinach. I had meant to grab the kale and did not realize until I had washed it that I had the bag of spinach from the farmers market instead. Any green works in stir-fry, and we are enjoying the ones coming to the market.
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