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Tonight I made Connemara Broth from Simon Pearce's cookbook. It's become one of my favorite recipes - bacon, potatoes, cabbage, canned tomatoes, chicken broth. I now have dinners for the next 3 nights before I go to Vero Beach on Thursday to see my brother and SIL for a few days. Whatever I have left after dinner on Wednesday, I'll freeze (even if the potatoes get mushy).
On Thursday, I tried warming some of the salmon meatballs in the microwave with a little bit of butter on each and a damp paper towel to try to steam them. It didn't work - they were still really dry. So last night I turned them into a salmon salad (like a tuna salad) with celery, mayo, yogurt and Dijon mustard. Definitely better and I won't waste all the salmon - I think I'll find a different recipe next time
I made some salmon meatballs from an NYT recipe - reading the comments it seems like mine were the only ones that were a little dry - easy enough to adjust next time - I may freeze some of them - the recipe used canned salmon. I made a veggie slaw to go them.
I made my adaptation of the harvest grains bread and used some 6-grain blend with the harvest grains - way better flavor. It's not rising quite as much as I'd like and I'm going to tinker around the edges of my recipe. It was risen nicely when I took it out of the bread machine - lots of gluten strands, but it was very sticky as I tried to make my loaves. I may have overproofed it a little, but the texture's OK.
Last night I pulled some buffalo chicken from the freezer and had it with green beans. Tonight I had the chicken and beans on repeat and added some ranch dressing.
Tonight I had peanut butter toast with honey on Irish Oatmeal bread. I told my sons I was channeling their dad - comfort food - it's been a very long day
I had tuna salad, arugula and a piece of toast (Mrs Cindy's Irish Oatmeal Bread)
Sunday I made a half batch of curried butternut squash soup and had some with cheese and crackers
I'm envious of your kayak trip, BA. Soon I'll be able to do that again
I roasted some Brussels sprouts and added a sliced shallot and a thinly sliced chicken sausage to add some protein. I have enough for dinner tomorrow
I'll have to get some of the 6-grain mix - I noticed a difference in my Irish Oatmeal bread. Since KABC offered me free shipping on my next order I can get that and some orange oil too.
Tonight I decided to use some of the IKEA meatballs I'd gotten for the freezer prior to my surgery - obviously we never used them. Had them with noodles and roasted broccoli and I have enough for a few more meals.
I know BA, I'm always critical of my own cooking.
Re: orange oil - I went to the health food store and yes he had orange oil, but it turns out it's orange oil and safflower oil from Frontier Co-op and of course safflower oil is the first ingredient - I bought it anyway just in case. I'm sure I'll find something to use it for.
My orange juice is all in the freezer for when I get some proper orange oil
I made a loaf of Mrs Cindy's Irish Oatmeal Bread that I have tweaked a little bit - I'm very pleased how it came out.
A much better result than the KAF Brownies I made on Friday night - I got started and had to run out to get chocolate chips. Then Will called me in the middle and I couldn't run the mixer while I was talking with him. Then I started rushing and didn't cook the butter sugar mixture long enough to completely melt the sugar. The final kicker was I forgot to make myself a note to shorten the cook time on my oven. Just a tad too long. My friends were happy and the brownies are OK. They took most of them home and I put a few in the freezer
I had placed an order for other things at King Arthur right before we had this discussion 🙄 we have Home Goods and TJMaxx on the mainland and like you I save up for bigger trips - don't need anything else right now, so I'll probably order online
I had to go to HT today - I looked for orange oil, but they didn't have any - they did have "pure" orange extract - it had sugar in it. Needless to say, I didn't buy it.
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