Skeptic, you must be getting some of the smoke at your place, too. I can smell it in the air here, but we're sort of on the edge of "OK not OK". I'm very sensitive to smoke and will be happy when it clears out. The weather folks keep pushing that time-line ahead, but hopefully by the weekend. My plants definitely need some sun!
I love making the baked pancakes - it's so much easier than scooping and flipping them on the griddle. It's the same recipe, same flavor, same texture.
Wednesday dinner was baked blueberry pancakes and sausages.
I made a pasta dish with rigatoni, bite size chunks of red pepper and onions and slices of Italian sausage in a tomato sauce with chopped onion, pepper, and celery that was frozen from last summer. I also got out sweet pepper focaccia from the freezer. I've been in Maine for the past week, and this was easy and perfect for such a gray, drizzly, chilly day. Plus, we have leftovers for later in the week.
We had grilled chicken thighs with asparagus and the last of a couple of leftover salads.
I baked Orange Fig and Pecan muffins, with some adaptations. I used dried figs which I soaked for several hours to soften. And I substituted pecan meal for chopped pecans.
I made an asparagus frittata to take to my Book Club meeting tonight.
Tonight was clean out all the leftovers from the fridge, so we had cole slaw, bean salad, cowboy caviar, and broccoli salad. We might have to eat leftover leftovers tomorrow night!
We had quesedillas, made with thin sliced leftover pork chops, chopped onion and bell pepper, leftover Cowboy Caviar, and shredded cheddar, in fajita shells.
I just put dough for lemon-lime oatmeal cookies into the fridge to chill for a couple of hours.
Dinner this Friday night was grilled boneless pork chops, asparagus, corn and bean salad (aka Cowboy Caviar), and the grilled asiago rounds.
BakerAunt, I love asparagus also!! But the season is quickly coming to an end. I will be making an asparagus frittata to take to my Book Club meeting next week, and hoping to have enough asparagus still to pick for my trip to Maine at the end of the week.
We grilled more Asiago Rounds tonight.
We had pizza tonight also; perfectly cooked, so crispy on the bottom and edge, soft and fluffy in the center. I used my home-made salsa as the sauce, with mushrooms, black olives, sliced red bell pepper and onion, spicy Italian ground sausage, cheddar and mozzarella. I also put some spicy hot pizza topping mix into the dough. Your pizza looks great, Len, but I'm just not hungry right now.
Some chuckles for today: We are feeding a number of birds, including a very friendly Baltimore Oriole. He sits on the handle of our door to the deck, and pecks on the glass. He does this only when my husband is sitting at the dining room table. That is because my husband is the one who puts out a cut in half orange and refills a small dish of grape jelly early every morning. When the food is gone, that bird is telling him he wants refills, now!
Wednesday dinner was taco salads.
There is another possible solution to the seed-eating chipmunk -- and that is to start the seeds indoors and then transplant when they are a couple inches tall. I think I would try that, along with making cages to cover the seeds in the garden.
