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For breakfast on Sunday, I made my favorite Blueberry Oatmeal Muffins, which used up the rest of the five pounds of berries that I bought at the farmers market a few weeks ago.
While the muffins were baking, I mixed up Icelandic Rye Bread, a recipe which appeared in the latest King Arthur catalog. I had hoped that the "cocktail" bread pan, of which I have a set, would work for the recipe. As it turns out, there is significant difference between a 12.5 x 2.75 x 2.5 pan like mine and the 13.75 x 2.5 x 2.75 pan that USA now makes and King Arthur sells. A certain amount of batter escaped over the sides and onto the pan and the oven floor, despite being weighted down. I was able to get the batter off the oven floor before it burned on, and the pan needed a good soak to clean it. The Icelandic Rye Bread is interesting. I had Lyle's Golden Syrup (I think it was picked up at T.J. Maxx at one time), so I used that instead of the combination of honey and molasses that King Arthur substitutes. I like the bread, but my husband and I find it too sweet. If I were to bake it again, after having first acquired the correct pan size--I would cut back the syrup from 2/3 to ½ cup. We used slices for open face chicken salad sandwiches, and it drowned out the dill, which is usually foremost, and to some extent, the green onion. I can see why people would like it with an assertive topping.
I did my baking in the early morning with windows open and the vent fan to get the heat out. Although we had pop up showers throughout the day, the humidity made it feel hotter than I would expect just looking at the cloudiness.
We've had rain, off and on, with pop up showers throughout today. Humidity makes it seem hotter than it is.
On Saturday, I found some wonderful peaches from Michigan at the farmers market, so I bought a bag of thirteen for $12. It was the same vendor from whom I had bought the blueberries a few weeks ago, so I trusted the peaches would be good, and they are. On Sunday afternoon, I use seven to make peach jam, which I canned, for a total of four 8 oz. jars and one 4 oz. jar. I will either bake or just eat the other peaches, but I like to have at least one batch of peach jam, and we do not always get good peaches at the farmers market.
For dinner, I used the rest of the roast chicken (the breast meat) to make chicken salad for open face sandwiches on the Icelandic Rye Bread I baked this morning.
Yes, I should have held some of the batter back. At least, when I saw the overflow, I put a piece of parchment paper on the rack beneath the rack on which the bread was baking. By that time, no more was coming out. I also at that time used a spatula to remove the clumps of dough on the oven floor, so that clean-up was not too bad. I soaked the pan after removing the bread, since most of what oozed out stuck to the pan. However, I first pried some of it off the pan and put the large glob into the convection oven to finish baking. We snacked on that this afternoon.
For details about the bread itself, see this week's baking thread.
Well, apparently, King Arthur maximized it for pan size, so I have some oven run over in spite of weighing down the pan. Live and learn--and clean the oven. What I wish that I had done is put some of the batter in a mini-loaf pan to bake alongside the larger loaf. If I decide the recipe is worth repeating, I will do that next time or relent and buy yet another pan. Apparently, the longer size is now standard for USA pans.
Thanks, Mike. I'll give it a try and report back.
I baked five small loaves of wholegrain pumpkin bread on Saturday. I will freeze at least three for dessert emergencies. The recipe is the one posted here at Nebraska Kitchen.
I made chicken broth on Saturday by boiling up the bones from the chicken I roasted earlier in the week, as well as bones save from roasted bone-in chicken breasts.
We had an easy meal of leftovers on Saturday of roasted chicken, the rest of the green beans, cherry tomato, and feta salad, and the leftover roasted sweet potato chunks.
We had leftover stir-fry for Friday's dinner.
Beautiful, Joan!
I had planned to re-heat the stir-fry for dinner on Thursday, but it is a cooler, rainy day, and I had picked up a marked down chicken at the grocery on Tuesday, so I roasted it for dinner. I also roasted sweet potato chunks tossed in olive oil. Dinner was completed by leftover green bean, cherry tomatoes, and feta salad.
On Thursday, I baked oatcakes. As I live with a snackasaurus, a single recipe of 17 does not last very long, so while the first batch was baking, I made up a second. Although I just could have doubled the recipe in the first place, I have a system for rolling out the dough on the same sheet of parchment on which I bake the cookies. I also thought it would be easier to make sure that all ingredients were combined if I did two single recipes. I had two oatcakes for teatime, with a dab of strawberry jam on the second one.
I made stir-fry for dinner on Wednesday using soba noodles and leftover pork from last night, along with the pan de-glazing. Vegetables were celery, red bell pepper, mushrooms, broccoli, and snow peas from our garden. We did not have much of a snow pea crop this year, but we accumulated enough for about a hand full.
I cooked a pot of black-eyed peas on Tuesday and froze four 8 oz. containers. I used another 8 oz. to make Green Bean, Cherry Tomato, and Feta salad again for dinner. I used multi-colored cherry tomatoes from the farmers market, which made for a beautiful presentation. My husband pan cooked some pork to go with it.
For lunch today, I had some of the pasta-vegetable salad that I made last week. It came out very well, which does not always happen when I improvise.
We had leftover hamburger stroganoff over mixed brown and wild rice, along with microwaved green beans from our garden.
After dinner on Monday night, I made a pasta salad that I will eat for lunches the rest of this week. I wanted to use up another jar of that zucchini relish that I made last fall that was unimpressive. I cooked 255 g of Trottole 3 color pasta. I combined the juice from the relish with an oil and vinegar dressing that I made, which has been sitting in the refrigerator since lettuce and spinach became unavailable at the farmers market due to the heat wave we had a while back. After tasting the dressing, I added some maple syrup and a bit of Dijon mustard. For vegetables, in addition to the zucchini relish, I used chopped red onion, a chopped long red bell pepper, sliced celery, thinly sliced carrot, a cucumber that is a variation of an English cucumber, and cherry tomatoes from our garden. I will see what it tastes like tomorrow at lunch.
We were out of cookies. I wanted something sweet with my tea, so on Monday afternoon, I made oil-based blueberry scones. The lemon that I had in the refrigerator had gone bad, so I used 1/8 tsp of lime oil instead of lemon zest and out of lemon oil. The flavor is a little strong in the scone that I ate today. I hope that it will be less intense tomorrow when I have one for breakfast.
I also made dough for Whole Wheat Sourdough Cheese Crackers this afternoon. I will bake those at the end of the week.
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