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  • in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of August 4, 2024? #43526
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      Joan--My mother was a big fan of cold pizza for breakfast! Your pizza looks wonderful, and I approve of ALL the toppings!

      I made minestrone on Wednesday for lunch for today and into the week. I have not made it in ages and had forgotten how good it is, especially with fresh green beans from our garden.

      For dinner, I made chicken salad from the rest of the roasted chicken breast meat. We had it on the buns I baked yesterday, along with more of the green bean, cherry tomato, and feta salad.

      in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of August 4, 2024? #43520
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        We had used up all the sandwich buns in the freezer, so on Tuesday, I baked another batch of the Whole Wheat/Rye/Semolina buns.

        Follow-up on the Oatmeal Scotchies: My version is very good, but I do miss that buttery taste and texture. I would still bake the revised version, as it at least gives the butterscotch taste.

        in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of August 4, 2024? #43519
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          You are lucky, Joan! While I have access to a small weekly farmers market, it is often hit or miss as to what I will find there.

          Dinner tonight was ham sandwiches on freshly baked buns with green bean, cherry tomato, and feta salad.

          in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of August 4, 2024? #43509
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            Stay safe, Joan.

            For dinner on Monday, I made that green bean, cherry tomato, and feta salad yet again. We had it with an ear of corn each and more leftover roasted chicken breast. I like these easy summer meals.

            in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of August 4, 2024? #43506
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              I hope that Joan and CWCdesign are doing ok with the storms moving into Georgia.

              Ever since Joan baked the Oatmeal Scotchies cookies, I have been wondering if I could develop a healthier version that I could eat occasionally. I needed a distraction on Monday, and we were going to be out of cookies after today, so I checked and found a half bag of Nestles butterscotch chips in the second refrigerator that have been there since before I gave up saturated fat in butter and chips, which I think was four years ago. I tasted one, and it was fine. (I suspect they will never go bad.) I worked out a recipe, with avocado oil and water replacing the butter and baked a half recipe this afternoon. I will allow them to rest overnight, with the idea that, as with cakes, the flavor will develop during the rest. If we like them, I will post the re-worked recipe.

              The chips give them about 1.45 g saturated fat per cookie. There is a bit of additional saturated fat from the egg, avocado oil, and sunflower kernels, but as these ingredients also contain healthy fats and nutrients, I did not include them in the overall tally.

              in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of August 4, 2024? #43498
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                Joan--I hope you get a chance to try it!

                Dinner on Sunday was ham sandwiches on WW/Rye/Semolina buns (the last from the freezer), an ear of sweet corn each, and the rest of the green bean salad.

                in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of July 28, 2024? #43488
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                  Saturday night's dinner was easy: leftover roasted chicken breast, leftover green bean salad, and an ear of sweet corn each--the first for us this season--which we bought at this morning's farmers market.

                  in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of July 28, 2024? #43478
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                    I made green beans, cherry tomato, and feta salad again on Friday. We also had ham sandwiches. I forgot to thaw the black-eyed peas for the salad, but my oven was warm from baking, so I moved them to a dish and let them thaw that way. I also forgot to thaw the buns for the sandwiches, but I set them on the counter, then moved them to the still warm oven to finish thawing.

                    in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of July 28, 2024? #43477
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                      Your coffee cake is beautiful, Joan, and I'm sure it is delicious!

                      I used my adaptation of the King Arthur recipe for Rye Blueberry Bars to make Rye Blackberry Chia Jam bars. They came out very well.

                      in reply to: 2024 Gardening #43465
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                        Sometimes, it depends on if a freeze hits at the wrong time, or if it is a very hard freeze. About five years ago, orchards in Michigan lost peach trees to the polar vortex. In my area, there were some years that a honey vendor's trees had peaches, and I was always a willing customer for her organic "ugly" peaches, but she did not have the fruit every year. She has not been to the market since the summer of 2019.

                        I miss making peach jam.

                        That's a neat story about how you got your peach tree, Len. My grandmother's house had a pear tree, and I vaguely recall my grandmother saying that my grandfather had planted it. When researching family at newspapers.com, I found a story about his bringing back cuttings from Arkansas. That story pointed to the tree's origins. It was struck by lightning and died around the time my grandmother passed away.

                        in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of July 28, 2024? #43464
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                          I'm glad you and Diane are safe, Mike. My husband reports that in the week since he was at his larger woodlands, a cottonwood tree across the road came down. It was already cleared away, with a new utility pole replacing the one it took out. It also broke some of our fence. I am happy that it did not hit the black raspberry patch, as I want more berries next year!

                          Thursday was a busy cooking day. I made yogurt. I made another frittata for lunch. I made and canned the final batch of blackberry jam. For dinner, I roasted bone-in chicken breasts, which we had with the rest of the green bean, tomato, and feta salad I made yesterday.

                          Thanks to Mike for suggesting checking the canning lids. I found three defective ones--the inner sealing part. These came with the jars. I threw two away. One had slight damage around the edge, but not enough to prevent sealing, so I tried it on a small jar and it sealed. Ball needs to do better quality control.

                          in reply to: 2024 Gardening #43458
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                            I envy your 3 freezers, Chocomouse. I'm trying to figure out how to add a small chest freezer to complement our two refrigerators with freezers. That said, your priorities are straight: a fourth freezer for berries!

                            in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of July 28, 2024? #43454
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                              I made and canned another batch of blackberry jam on Wednesday afternoon. I had intended to do it in the morning, but a rainstorm caused a delay.

                              For dinner, I used a pound of green beans from our garden to make our favorite summer salad with cherry tomatoes (from the farmers market, as ours are not yet ready), black-eyed peas, green onion, halved black olives, a wonderful dressing, and sprinkled over individual servings, crumbled feta and toasted almonds. This salad will be on our menu for as long as we have green beans. We had it with ham sandwiches.

                              in reply to: 2024 Gardening #43449
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                                My husband harvested our first cherry tomatoes today--or rather, they came off in his hand. They are not yet ripe but will finish ripening on the porch. We have a lot of green tomatoes, so at some point we should have a good amount for cooking and making sauce for the freezer.

                                So far, we only have one honey nut squash. The plants are much slower than last year,

                                in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of July 28, 2024? #43441
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                                  I baked an 8 x 8-inch blueberry streusel coffee cake on Tuesday. I used the countertop oven, and since I was using glass and convection, lowered the temperature from 375 to 350 F. Although it baked through, I could see on the bottom that it was browner where the dish was over the elements. I may not do a cake in a glass dish in that oven again.

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