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I've just arrived back home from a week in Maine, and didn't really feel like cooking. So I fixed breakfast sausages and blueberry pancakes with maple syrup. There's plenty left for a couple of breakfasts, also.
We had shrimp, squash, fennel-apple slaw, and cucumbers for dinner. We are receiving a box of fresh produce every week, part of a program for the elderly in our area. Our garden is not producing well yet, due to extreme weather conditions of dry, then heat, then downpours/flooding, etc so we are excited to get fresh food from the organization that we often donate our excess produce to. This week among the goodies in the box was a zucchini-type squash, a costata romanesque, which is new to me. I cooked it like regular summer squash: sliced, drizzled with olive oil, and roasted - delicious. Also in the box was a fennel bulb and some apples, with a recipe included, so I made that: a fennel-apple slaw, with oil and vinegar. This is not exactly like that TV show where contestants are given a surprise box of weird foods to cook, but I'm having fun with it.
I made a batch of muffin dough, and put some last year's frozen raspberries in half and fresh blueberries in the other half. I also made 4 dozen orange-ginger cookies, using candied orange peel I made last spring. I scooped and froze some of the dough, maybe another 2 dozen.
Tonight we had chicken and potatoes roasted on the grill, with a green salad.
My sister's booth is Ellen's 1/2 Pint Farm and we are located in Barn 26, the first one after you enter through the main gate. Please stop by and introduce yourself, kimbob. I look forward to chatting with Skeptic every year in Maryland, and would love to meet up with you in NY.
I've been making and freezing cookies for a couple of weeks now. I should have waited! Great idea to add coconut to the choc chip oatmeal cookies, Joan. And I do like BLJ's molasses cookie recipe. Hmmm. I've made Lemon, Chocolate with M & M's, and Maple. Next up is dough with Tang and candied orange peel.
We had salads for dinner: seafood, potato, bean, along with a little leftover cole slaw and Italian pasta salad. Finally, the heat and humidity broke today, with a high in the mid 80s and humidity around 75%. We'll sleep with the windows open and no ac for the first time in weeks.
Dinner tonight was grilled boneless pork chops, beet greens with tiny baby beets, and roasted summer squash and zucchini.
Tonight we had grilled kielbasa, peppers, and onions on buns, hot, spicy mustard.
Our dinner tonight was grilled salmon with a maple glaze, green beans and a cucumber from the deck, and cole slaw.
I picked a quart and a half of blueberries this morning, for a total now of 5 quarts. I used one quart to make the Berries and Cream Cake. I got the recipe originally, back in 1986, from a recipe contest a local newspaper held every summer. King Arthur now has it posted on their website.
I made lemon-oatmeal sugar cookies and a focaccia with garlic and cheese powder plus sprinkled with The Works.
Our dinner was ribs, with potato salad and orzo-spinach salad.
Our dinner last night was a ham steak with fresh green beans and a summer squash. My husband is eating the leftover raspberry jam bars for his before bed snack.
BakerAunt, great that you picked so many berries! The berries on my 10 bushes are just now getting ripe enough to pick, so I got one quart the day before yesterday. After last year's late frost killed most of the buds, I'm really looking forward to a good crop this summer. I go to a pick-your-own farm in Maine in the fall when the berries are on sale. At that time, their 11 pound boxes, which are $65 each, are buy 2 get 1 free.
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