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That pizza looks wonderful, Joan. I can even smell it! All my favorite ingredients.
I made burger buns today.
Tonight we grilled chicken thighs, and had asparagus and green salad with them.
My latest planting on the deck of green beans looks more like pole beans than bush beans -they are (before the series of thunder storms and downpour we got this afternoon) about 6 feet tall! It doesn't really matter, as long as they produce beans to eat. Our cucumber in the hanging pot are done - my husband forgot to water them when I was in Maine last week. Plenty of green tomatoes on the plants in our in-ground garden, but not sign of red. No broccoli, cabbage, one small cauliflower. No peppers. Plenty of spaghetti squash, a few delicata and butternut. No zucchini, no summer squash. A few peppers, not ripe yet. It's a terrible growing season again this year. Temps 95-96 the first month after planting; no rain, although I did water. The berries are wonderful -- I think I've picked about 10 quarts of blueberries so far, many more to pick; and my husband is picking 3-4 quarts of blackberries every other day now. I was in Maine most of last week/weekend, so no picking, watering, weeding, or trimming then. I may have to buy a 4th freezer just for all the berries.
Dinner tonight was grilled (during a thunderstorm) was grilled salmon, corn on the cob grilled in the husks, and a tossed salad.
I made 2 loaves of KAF's recipe for oatmeal whole wheat bread, subbing buttermilk for the water. As usual, they rose about 4 inches above the pans. I have to bake on the very lowest rack of my countertop oven or the tops will burn onto the elements.
We had planned to have salmon and corn on the cob but my husband has a terrible cold and has been asleep most of the day; we'll have the salmon tomorrow. I sliced up some of the cold grilled Greek chicken thigh I brought back from Mane for a sandwich on sourdough bread my grand-daughter made earlier today. I'm thrilled that she is wanting to bake and cook! This was her second loaf of sourdough, and her slashing is better than mine will ever be.
I've just arrived back home from a week in Maine, and didn't really feel like cooking. So I fixed breakfast sausages and blueberry pancakes with maple syrup. There's plenty left for a couple of breakfasts, also.
We had shrimp, squash, fennel-apple slaw, and cucumbers for dinner. We are receiving a box of fresh produce every week, part of a program for the elderly in our area. Our garden is not producing well yet, due to extreme weather conditions of dry, then heat, then downpours/flooding, etc so we are excited to get fresh food from the organization that we often donate our excess produce to. This week among the goodies in the box was a zucchini-type squash, a costata romanesque, which is new to me. I cooked it like regular summer squash: sliced, drizzled with olive oil, and roasted - delicious. Also in the box was a fennel bulb and some apples, with a recipe included, so I made that: a fennel-apple slaw, with oil and vinegar. This is not exactly like that TV show where contestants are given a surprise box of weird foods to cook, but I'm having fun with it.
I made a batch of muffin dough, and put some last year's frozen raspberries in half and fresh blueberries in the other half. I also made 4 dozen orange-ginger cookies, using candied orange peel I made last spring. I scooped and froze some of the dough, maybe another 2 dozen.
Tonight we had chicken and potatoes roasted on the grill, with a green salad.
My sister's booth is Ellen's 1/2 Pint Farm and we are located in Barn 26, the first one after you enter through the main gate. Please stop by and introduce yourself, kimbob. I look forward to chatting with Skeptic every year in Maryland, and would love to meet up with you in NY.
I've been making and freezing cookies for a couple of weeks now. I should have waited! Great idea to add coconut to the choc chip oatmeal cookies, Joan. And I do like BLJ's molasses cookie recipe. Hmmm. I've made Lemon, Chocolate with M & M's, and Maple. Next up is dough with Tang and candied orange peel.
We had salads for dinner: seafood, potato, bean, along with a little leftover cole slaw and Italian pasta salad. Finally, the heat and humidity broke today, with a high in the mid 80s and humidity around 75%. We'll sleep with the windows open and no ac for the first time in weeks.
Dinner tonight was grilled boneless pork chops, beet greens with tiny baby beets, and roasted summer squash and zucchini.
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