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I baked two loaves of spelt bread this morning.

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I spent most of the day processing a 5 gallon pail of green and red peppers from the garden. So for dinner I pulled a package of leftover lasagna and some dinner rolls from the freezer and made a green salad.

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Today I played around making Danish pastries for the first time ever. I used a lightly sweetened cream cheese for the base filling, and topped half of them with blueberries and lemon zest, and the other half with slices of plum and fresh thyme. They turned out pretty good.

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We had apples and breakfast sausages seasoned with maple sugar and cinnamon and baked, with cole slaw and maple corn bread.

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That's a great looking loaf of bread, Joan! It will make a great breakfast toast.

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Today I baked English muffins, and an upside-down plum cake.

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We had BLTs for dinner, probably our last for this season as the nights are cold, in the low 50s, and the tomatoes are ripening slowly and not looking so good. I've made 16 quarts of sauce, and tomorrow will make a bucket of tomatoes into salsa, probably yielding around 8 pints. Sorry you didn't get a great crop of tomatoes, BakerAunt. Tomatoes are the only thing that did well in our garden this year - except for lettuce/greens and beans on the deck.

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Our dinner tonight was grilled salmon and corn on the cob, and fresh green beans. This morning I made tomato-basil soup from about 2 pounds of cherry tomatoes and a dozen Early Girl tomatoes. We'll eat some of it for dinner tomorrow night and I'll freeze the remainder.

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Today I made 3 blueberry braids, each about 16" long. The filling was lightly sweetened cream cheese and lemon oil, topped with frozen blueberries. They are delicious, and two are now in the freezer.

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For my dinner tonight, I had a bowl of Greek vanilla yogurt with a generous handful of frozen blueberries added to it.

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BakerAunt, I'm sitting here looking at 8 bread books. I do have a couple of favorite recipes among them, but I seem to always grab a printed sheet of my reliable favorites. I guess that's OK -- I know the recipe works, some with my comments/changes, and I can count on having delicious bread. I'm much more apt to try new and different main dishes, sides, salads.

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Happy Birthday, Mike! What a great birthday dinner choice!

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Joan, I really love blueberries even more when they are combined with lemon flavoring. My favorite is the KAF Lemon Juice Powder; I think it is even more flavorful than lemon oil or zest. I'll be making raspberry muffins in another week or so, and will use oatmeal in those.

BakerAunt, when I was searching recipes for peaches a few weeks ago, I noticed that bakers seemed to be adamant for or against removing the peels. I left mine on, as many people said the peels disappear into the batter and you don't even know you are eating them. I was wondering about peels on or off for a pie, and now I know! Thanks for telling us!

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This morning I made Blueberry Lemon Muffins, using the recipe I have developed over the years. The berries came from the 10 bushes I planted next to the garden in 1986. This year I picked about 15 quarts. I will also be picking in Maine next week and expect to get 11 pounds. Need I mention how much I love blueberries? Joan, I could eat your muffins, too!

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On Labor Day, my daughter hosted the annual family corn roast, for which I made a bean salad. I also mixed up a batch of Gael's Saturday Focaccia (KAF) and transported to her kitchen where I "supervised" her husband learning about the characteristics of risen and ready to use dough. We sprinkled the oiled top with The Works. It came out perfectly!

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