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No cooking here, just had to warm up all the odds and ends of leftovers!

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I made 2 loaves of Harvest Grains bread.

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Joan, enjoy dinner with your son's family -- a no cooking vacation for you.

Our dinner was Greek chicken thighs, roasted brussels sprouts and green beans, and rice. When I am in Maine with my sister, we always shop at our preferred little "yuppie" market; I buy these marinated chicken thighs to grill and bring home extras to freeze for later. And tonight was 'later'!

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We're still on the border of 5a - 5b, we haven't moved. But we're on the Connecticut River, which separates VT and NH, and any large body of water will moderate the temperatures. For example, when our temperature is around 35*, it might be 32* or colder at our sugarhouse, which is 8 miles away, all uphill. So our garden area here at our house, has a longer growing season.

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I love using digital coupons! I can go to their (whoever) website at home, at my leisure, and select (click on) the coupons I will use. When the cashier runs those particular items through the scanner, the coupon deduction is done automatically. You do have to make sure you are buying the correct product, such as a 15 oz box, not the 20 oz box, for example. I find the grocery store staff are not able to make corrections, because the company that manages the system is usually on the other side of the country. What that has to do with it, I don't know! But I love not having to cut coupons and remember to take them shopping with me.

I'm pretty careful about sharing information, but I assume they already have access to most of it. And sometimes I will receive special "selected just for you" coupons, which are for things I buy often and are not posted publicly. If a company sends me an email requesting information, (e.g. my physical address) I do not respond. Rather, I go to their website and look at my account and then add the info - if I want them to have it.

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Joan, I'm so excited for you!! Have a wonderful time!

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We had Cottage (aka Shepherd's Pie) Pie for dinner -- made with corn, ground beef, and mashed potato with garlic. Technically, when made with lamb instead of beef, it is Shepherd's Pie.

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We had ham and cheese omelets with English muffins for dinner.

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In Vermont, it is illegal to trap and remove animals, even though they may be destroying agricultural products. However, many people do. Last night one of our cameras taped a possum crossing our property -- dragging a large bush caught on its tail. We'd seen a tape earlier when it didn't have a hitch-hiker riding with it. I had read something about that not long ago, but cannot find the article now. This is not a brush-tail possum; they don't live this far north. Years ago, when farmers used horses to plow, animals that made holes and tunnels were always shot, as a horse might step in a hole, break a leg, and need to be put down.

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We had the leftover chicken casserole from last week. I picked spinach from the deck planter and made a salad with store-bought cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, and onion. I think we can get one more meal of spinach. The snow from last Thursday's storm has finally melted.

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A local farmer from Colombia is producing regeneratively grown flint corn to make his arepas for a couple of years now. Currently, he sells his arepas from a food truck and is partnered with a market farm about a mile down the road from my house. But he has interesting, big plans for the future. https://www.moonandstarsvt.org/arepa-project

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Today I baked 2 loaves of whole wheat oatmeal bread and also made cheesecake. It is chocolate graham crust, baked and spread with raspberry jam. The filling is chocolate, to which I added a couple tablespoons of Torani raspberry syrup. I also swirled the rest of the jam into the filling. I have always greased the springform pans, but the recipe I used for the making the crust said not to grease it. So I did not. But the crust is stuck to the pan pretty tight! From now on I will spray the pans. I used two 7-inch springform pans, as usual, and one slides perfectly into a gallon zip-lock bag to go into the freezer.

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Dinner tonight was a casserole of spinach, mushrooms, chicken breasts, and mozzarella cheese. With it we had leftover roasted veggies from Wednesday night.

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I'm searching for an old recipe, from the 70s, called Dutch Apple Pie, I believe. It used a can of Dutch apple pie filling, which had raisins in it. but is no longer on the grocery shelves. There was no crust. It was more like a custard. This "pie" was baked in a casserole (I used the old blue flowered Pyrex deep dish about 6" square). It was delicious. But I cannot find my recipe in my old-fashioned recipe box. Has anyone here made this or have anything similar? I'd appreciate help locating this, thanks.

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I made hamburger buns today.

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