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I'm sorry you won't be able to enjoy this, BakerAunt. I'm taking it to Maine today, and will serve it at our Dessert Party this weekend - there will be at least 8 of us. I sub Greek yogurt for half of the sour cream, but that doesn't make it much more healthy.
Today I made a Berries and Cream Cake. It's an old recipe from 1985 that I discovered when a local newspaper had a recipe contest. I make it every year during blueberry season. It has a shortbread-type crust, pressed into a springform pan. Then a quart of fresh (or frozen) blueberries is poured on top of the crust. A custard of sour cream, egg, sugar, vanilla is poured over it all and then baked for an hour. I have no idea about the origin of it, just the housewife who submitted it to the paper. However, about 20 years later, KAF posted it as its own recipe, with no changes. I discovered today that it is no longer posted on their website. Interesting.
Pizza tonight!
Yes, Mike it is. Please put it at the top of your list -- I'd love to hear what you think of it.
I'm calling this baking, although it was cooked on the grill! I made more of the KAF Asiago Grilled Bread. I made 2 batches with plans to gift some to friends when I go to Maine tomorrow. In the first batch, 12 bread rounds, I used cheddar cheese and some Penzey spices: Foxpoint, and when I ran out of that, Sandwich Sprinkles. In the second batch, I used parmesan and fresh herbs snipped from the planter on the deck. I also experimented with using AP and bread flour, or all AP. Of course, the AP is softer, less chewy than the one with bread flour. All bread flour is too chewy for me, almost tough. But approximately 2 cups of AP and 1 cup of bread flour is my favorite.
Our dinner was the bread rounds we grilled earlier - split and filled with tuna salad for my husband and chicken slices for me. We also had cherry tomatoes which I salvaged after chasing off the chipmunk which has been eating all of them from the pot on the deck.
We use tick spray every time we work outside. Keep pants tucked into socks. Spray clothing also. Ticks, and Lyme disease, have become a major problem in VT, partly because due to the warming climate they over-winter here. We check our bodies for ticks when we come inside, and shower. I keep tweezers handy for picking them off myself. And we treat our pets, also.
BakerAunt, you might want to look at Carhart clothing, which is tough, "workmen's" type clothing, and made of several different weights of fabric. It's on the expensive side, but my husband wears it all the time, working in the woods and yard. Tractor Supply might also carry heavy weight work clothing. I recall many, many years ago when I was pregnant, searching for heavy-duty maternity clothing for when I was picking all kinds of berries in the northern VT fields and forests!
BakerAunt, we don't do anything special to protect our hands or arms. We do thoroughly cut back old canes in the fall, and try to maintain our patch so the plants each have ample space. We also have metal garden posts on both sides of the patch, with wires strung about 2 and 4 ft off the ground to help contain the bushes. The patch is therefore contained and spacious, and is about 50 ft by 5 ft. We pick very carefully! When I cut the canes down to the ground in the fall, I do so slowly and carefully, wearing heavy gloves, long sleeves, and a turtle neck to prevent the earwigs from falling down my neck.
I wonder if you can find sturdy, rubbery, or leathery, gardening gloves and cut off the ends of the fingers? It would need to be rubbery/leathery so they would not fray after they're cut.
We've just started picking blackberies. Our blueberries are done, and we picked only about 4-5 pints this year, as we lost over 90% of the crop to the killing frost in May. Blueberry season is over for many of the-pick-your-own and regular farms due to the blueberry maggot (Rhagoletis mendax) infestations caused by the extremely rainy weather we've had. Many farms in the area have lost all their crops - fruit, vegetables, hay - due to the floods 2 weeks ago.
We had grilled salmon, steamed zucchini and summer squash, and rice.
I made 2 loaves of pumpernickel bread today, and used 2 slices for a patty melt.
I roasted a sheet pan dinner with sliced chicken and kale sausages, yellow summer squash, zucchini, broccoli, carrots, orange sweet pepper, and onion. I didn't use any seasonings, there was enough from the sausage. We have plenty leftover for another meal. We also had steamed green, yellow, and purple beans from a deck planter.
I picked green, yellow, and purple stringless beans today, our first real crop of the season, except for cherry tomatoes. It is 89* and going up.
Our dinner tonight was tuna sandwiches on maple-whole wheat bread, with lettuce and cherry tomatoes from the deck planters.
My husband makes raspberry liqueur every year, I'll suggest he make blackberry this year also. Sorry, BakerAunt, I can't help you -- we never deseed blackberries. I can't wait for pie - and I do not like pie! -- only blackberry pie.
I had to water plants today, the first time all summer except for when I started seeds or transplanted seedlings. I did not water the in-ground plants or berry bushes, but only the things in planters/pots on the deck, which dry out faster. We've had three days in a row of sunshine and upper 80s, with 90 predicted for Friday. Even the areas that were flooded 2 weeks ago are starting to dry out, although it will be months before most of the damaged roads and bridges will be open to traffic.
I've had a lot of cherry tomatoes, Sweet 100s, fall off the vine this year also. I've always had most cherry varieties fall off prematurely until I discovered these.
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