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Tonight we had boneless skinless chicken thighs on the smoker, with our first of the season corn on the cob (not from my garden, I don't grow it), green and yellow beans, and zucchini. I'm leaving tomorrow for two weeks, and hoping my husband will pick enough of the veggies to keep them coming.
I love the flavor of lemon, and usually prefer a very strong lemon taste. That's why I like KAF's lemon juice powder, and often end up doubling it in their recipes. I haven't figured out yet what proportions to use when I sub it in place of lemon oil or extract or juice/zest. I skip the vanilla called for in many recipes. I never use it in recipes that also use other strong flavors, like lemon, orange, chocolate.... However, I think the success of some recipes is all due to the vanilla, and without the vanilla, you wouldn't bother to make it again.
Today I tried another recipe for cinnamon roll cake. The last one I made was not so great, it was so tender it just fell apart. I'm hoping this one will be good enough to use as a quick and easy to make sweet treat for a gathering instead of making a true cinnamon roll yeast recipe.
So true.
Not much of anything happening in my kitchen this week. It's now two days in the 90s, very humid, and more tomorrow. I put together a trifle using half a lemon sheet pan cake I had in the freezer; I just had to sprinkle the cake pieces with raspberry cordial, and add layers of lemon pudding (sugar free, instant), blueberries, blackberries, and strawberries, and whipped cream.
The Wagyu cattle being raised on a farm near here are grass-fed, as are most of the local beef animals. Interesting that in a recent survey of favorite french fries served in the Upper Valley, The Worthy Burger placed among the top restaurants. They cook their fries in Wagyu tallow!
We had chicken thighs on the smoker, with leftover tortellini-veggie salad, sliced zucchini, and green beans from our garden. Finally!
Mike, I would think not! But he was inside the electric fence, and sprayed outward-- no veggies outside the fence, just grass. I would not eat anything that I suspected had been sprayed. The odor dissipated after an hour or so
That does sound good, BakerAunt! Last night I made pizza, and today I fixed a tortellini and veggie salad.
I spent a week in Maine and came home eager to get back in the kitchen. I made a loaf of sandwich bread using KAF's Harvest Grains; a batch of oatmeal cookies with coconut, walnuts, chocolate chips, and craisins; and today I made a blueberry "cake" that is more like a cheesecake than a flour cake, although a pretty bad cheesecake. I got the recipe out of the local newspaper about 30 years ago, but I see now that the recipe is in KAF's recipes, called "Berries and Cream Cake". It is very good, quick and easy to make, and uses up two quarts of berries. I'm going to try it with raspberries when our fall crop is ripe.
Gardening is not progressing so well. We ate 2 tomatoes - delicious! We are picking blueberries and blackberries. We now have an electric fence around all the veggies, and we have a video of a skunk getting zapped, "getting even" by spraying the wire, but thus getting zapped again, and finally running out the same way he came in. We have 2 very small zucchinis and 2 very small summer squashes now, quite a few small, green bell peppers, and 5 cabbages. I've bought zucchini for the first time in my life. We've had 1/4 inch of rain so far today and it is supposed to rain for the next 24 hours; that would help a lot.
Has anyone tried Wagyu beef? I don't know if it is grass-fed or not; a farm near here is now raising the Japanese beef and selling to local meat markets. They say the marbling is 20%, compared to more typical beef that is 8%, and it is higher in Omega 3 and 6. The price is also higher!! $43 a pound for strip steak that is typically $18-$23/lb, and $10 for hamburg that is typically around $5.50. It will be a while before I buy that.
I made Wheat-Oat-Flax Buns -- our new go-to bun recipe.
Not much cooking happening with this heat, but we have rain and storms predicted for every day next week, starting after midnight tonight. Tonight we had burgers on the grill, and yesterday morning before the temps went up I made salads: pasta-veggies, seafood, cole slaw, tossed green salad, and olive rolls from the freezer.
I made blueberry muffins and added a tablespoon of lemon juice powder and sprinkled the tops with crystalized sugar before baking.
Chicken thighs on the grill, with the last of the broccoli salad, a Greek style salad with tomatoes, cukes, and onion, and a green salad from the garden.
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