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Early this morning before the temps rose into the 90s, I made two salads for dinner. First was rotini with ham, cheddar, onion, red bell pepper with Italian dressing. The second was orzo with baby spinach from the deck, orange bell peppers, black olives, and feta cheese with Ranch dressing. Delicious, and no work in the heat of the day. We have leftovers for another night.
In spite of the 96* heat, I made a chicken casserole today. It starts with a layer of sauteed onions, spinach, and mushrooms, then chicken breasts (I slice them in half horizontally to decrease the cooking time) and topped with mozzarella cheese. We have leftovers for another night.
Leftovers here.
That's nice that Diane is recovering quickly!
Our dinner was grilled salmon, veggie slaw, and potato salad. It was a working day with my husband and son taking down the cracked retaining wall behind the garage and house; they have a little more work to do with the excavator and then the backhoe for the rest of the re-landscaping. A miserable job in 97* with high humidity.
Our beet greens on the deck are ready to eat. Lettuce is doing its thing - growing and growing. The green beans should be ready in a day or two, and I started a 2nd crop today. The snow peas are over - they are a cool season crop. Tomatoes and peppers are coming along, but they are still small. It's been a crazy season: very hot, then rain, and more rain, cool, nights in the 40s and 50s; the poor plants don't know what to do. Finally, this week, we have dry, sunny days with temps in the mid 70s to the mid 80s. Perfect gardening weather. All the berries are looking great - a huge crop this year throughout Vermont. And the skunks are enjoying the Japanese beetle grubs, which should turn into beetles and fly soon.
Last night we had salmon patties on burger buns, with veggies on the side. I used some dill-zucchini relish I made last summer mixed with mayo to make tartar sauce.
We grilled chicken thighs and ate broccoli and winter squash from the freezer.
We had chili and dinner rolls, both from the freezer. The temperature did not rise out of the low 50s all day, but we used the heat pump to warm it up to the mid-60s inside.
Those look yummy, Joan. I have also not baked cinnamon rolls for a long time, but now you've reminded me how good they are - thanks! My husband thanks you too!
Yesterday I baked 2 loaves of pumpernickel bread. Today I made a carrot cake, but still need to make the cream cheese frosting for it.
Tonight we had leftover lasagna and a green salad.
Dinner tonight was ribs and potatoes, cooked on the grill, and asparagus and green salad. Included in the salad were the first of the snow peas that I'm growing in a hanging basket on the deck.
I made lasagna for dinner, and there is plenty leftover for the freezer. I pulled the last three garlic knots from the freezer also. I planned a salad, but it has rained every 10 minutes here for the last 3 days! We've received over 3 inches this past week. But we did not get any of the tornados that were warned. Joan, we had upper 90s for three days last week, and now we've had the rain. The next 3 days are predicted to be nice - sunny and cooler.
I'm not 100% sold on the peas in a hanging basket idea! I planted late, and peas should be planted very early, when it's still too cold for most plants; they will survive a light frost. Germination was excellent, we'll see about actual product. All the berry crops seem to be wonderful in Vermont this year. I have blossoms on the beans, and will start a 2nd crop whenever this constant rain of the few days stops. I have quite a few tiny tomatoes on my Sweet 100 cherry tomatoes, and quite a few little peppers on my New Ace peppers. I'm not sure how the Early Girls are doing, except the plants themselves are big and healthy. We had 4 days last week with temps 96-98* and very little rain for the past few weeks; in Vermont, we usually (used to) get maybe four days in the 90s spread out over the entire summer! Our plants suffered, even with regular deep watering.
Mike, if your raspberries were cut back last fall, they should be putting up new canes by now; ours are about 2 feet tall. We have 50ft of them that we mow down each fall, and they are ready to pick about the end of July; they continue to produce until frost. If you let last fall's new canes grow up, they will produce berries this summer, usually early-mid July in Vermont.
I sort of agree with Diane! I do not like spaghetti squash, not as a squash. I love it as fake, low-carb pasta! I treat it like spaghetti noodles - use marinara, pizza sauce/ingredients, alfredo sauce with veggies; most anything you would serve on pasta is also delicious on spaghetti squash.
I never staked my potatoes; they didn't grow tall stems such as tomatoes, peas, etc. I've never seen on any of the gardening blogs I read that gardeners are staking them. I just hoed up dirt around the stem of the plant, without disturbing the dirt that is just above the actual potatoe(s). I no longer grow potatoes.
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