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My husband rototilled our asparagus yesterday, before the stalks have started to emerge; it is usually around June 1st before we harvest any. However, the fiddleheads are above ground now so folks who like those are picking and eating them. Tomorrow I will plant lettuce, spinach, and peas before I leave for the Maryland Sheep and Wool festival, where I hope to meet up with Skeptic again!

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I made two loaves of whole wheat-rye bread this morning. This afternoon I made Joan's recipe for Lemon Oatmeal Sugar Cookies. However, my Breville countertop oven seemed to not bake correctly, as the tops were not cooked but the bottoms were brown. It appears the top bulbs are not working. It did seem to be fine for baking the bread earlier, which is cooked through. Bread is not as fussy as cookies! And the cookies are delicious!

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We had quesadillas for dinner - leftover pork, onions, sweet red peppers, and cheddar.

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I just printed out the recipe Joan posted for Lemon Oatmeal Sugar Cookies. They look so good - I'll be making them tomorrow morning. I've been making some similar, just adding lemon and oatmeal to another recipe. Thanks, Joan, for enabling me! Lemon is a favorite flavor of mine, and oatmeal makes sugar cookies healthy, right?

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Today I made two small (7") cheesecakes, a maple and a chocolate. I'll freeze the chocolate one for next week.

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Dinner tonight was chicken thighs on the grill, along with grilled potato chunks and the last zip-lock bag of last year's asparagus. We'll have fresh asparagus from the garden in 6-8 weeks.

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I made Blueberry Pie Bars for a potluck.

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Why pick on tomatoes? What about a tariff on, say, okra? There is a large hydroponic tomato farm with year-round delicious tomatoes about one mile from my house - no tariffs there. But thinking about prepared salsa, ketchup, soups, sauces. . . . staples that most folks purchase regularly.

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I have at least one problem chipmunk - he/she will pick a cherry tomato from the deck plant, peel it, eat the insides, and stash the peel in a pot with all of its other peels! I have to keep a wire mesh cage (with a top!) over the cherry tomato plant.

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Dinner was easy tonight. I had leftovers from my meal at a Korean restaurant yesterday, so just added fresh vegetables to the stir fry and cooked some fresh rice. With the Korean barbecued short-ribs, it was a delicious meal.

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cwcdesign, about how much syrup would you want to purchase, say over the course of a year? He does wholesale, however, it's a small operation. I'll ask him when he gets home tonight. And thanks for thinking of his business - it's all through word-of-mouth!

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Tonight I made chicken alfredo and with it had a salad using greens and herbs from the newest seeding of greens. This will be my last crop from the sunroom this season; the next ones I'll plant on the deck in about 6 weeks.

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We had a stir fry for dinner tonight.

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I made chocolate chip cookies this mornng.

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We had pizza, with home-made salsa, hot sausage, mushrooms, black olives, green pepper, onions, cheddar and mozza. We'll have the leftovers tomorrow night!

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