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I found a recipe for a Harvest Salad that I ate for several days - red leaf lettuce, romaine, finely chopped Brussels sprouts, red grapes, avocado, nuts, blue cheese and vinaigrette - sometimes it amazes me how you'll see ingredients you like in a recipe and have to try it - such a simple combination in the right proportions and you wonder why you didn't think of it?

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Yesterday I made a Chocolate Eclipse Cake to take to some friends' house for dinner.

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Last night I made Ina Garten’s Lemon Chicken Breast’s - delicious but next time I’d use smaller breasts and remember to broil to crisp up the skin. I served them with green beans and basmati rice.

For dessert I made tiramisu (our guest’s all time favorite dessert) and I used the recipe I got from a cooking class I took with Nancy Verde Barr back in the 80’s. I hadn’t made it in eons because I always worry about using raw eggs. I bought a dozen Davidson’s pasteurized raw eggs and they worked just fine. One interesting note. Back then the recipe called for mixing ricotta with heavy cream because mascarpone was so hard to find. It was as delicious as I remembered. Worth slipping off my diet for.

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So far this week, I've made chicken salad with a rotisserie chicken breast and half whole milk Greek yogurt/half Mayo, stirred fried veggies and then the next night I added in a pound of Cooke chicken sausage. Last night I tried a recipe for a Chinese potsticker soup from foodnetwork that is definitely a keeper. I've been thinking about sea scallops since they're on sale, but maybe not tonight.

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BakerAunt's post reminded me that one of the bloggers I follow preps her sQuash in the slow cooker

Easiest Way to Cook a Butternut Squash: Slow-Cooker Butternut Squash:

Italiancook, most supermarket chains and probably Walmart now carry fresh ginger and fennel - are you able to shop at either of those?

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Italiancook here's one that I just got from Food and Wine made with roasted halves. I think I'm going to try it when it cools down a little - still way too hot for soup. The ginger sounds good
http://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/gingered-butternut-squash-soup-spicy-pecan-cream?xid=NL_DAILY100217&utm_source=foodandwine.com&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily&utm_content=2017100214PM

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Italiancook, you could do that but then you'd have to figure out a way to roast all those other ingredients - onions, apples, St to infuse the squash with those flavors.

I prefer to roast the halves myself but the flavor is really good roasted this way.

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Thanks Mike and BakerAunt for the link and information. You both confirmed what I thought and after all KAF uses a best by date. It's frustrating when that date is only a few months after you buy it. I now keep all my flour in the freezer since I just am not baking as much as I used too. Maybe some day I can bake more again.

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Italiancook, this is my favorite butternut squash soup
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/roasted-butternut-squash-soup-and-curry-condiments-recipe-1972725

It has a great texture, velvety and smooth

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I wonder if that is where Mr Bezos came up with the name for the company?

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This week I made slow cooker Buffalo chicken to serve over roasted cauliflower, a baked glazed salmon with green beans & red peppers. We were disappointed in the glaze - it used stevia which made it taste synthetic and it was thin - need to find a better glaze recipe. I also made sheet pan fajitas and last night Will and I shared cooking duties. I made burgers in the broiler folding Mark Bittman's directions - it was a great alternative to grilling in windy drizzle. He made sautéed shredded zucchini, grilled onions and a special sauce he makes. He and his friend had buns and bacon; I did not. The burgers also had guacamole- very decadent.

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Yay, Joey! Glad to see you made it in. Always sending prayers to you and DH.

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Darinna Allen of Ballymaloe uses cream in her Irish scone recipe.

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I made the sheet pan sausage and vegetables and a bowl of mixed berries.

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Happy Anniversary Mike and Mrs Mike! That is a wonderful milestone.

We returned last night, full power and water was restored Friday night and Internet yesterday. They had allowed people to return on Thursday but told everyone not to shower, flush unless necessary, do wash or run dishwashers and use the sink as little as possible - half the sewer lifts were still down county wide. So there were idiots who decided to open car washes (mine posted a notice they would be closed until everything was operational) and power wash their houses!! Needless to say the system started backing up and they had to shut the water off.

It's amazing how much clean up has been done. We arrived at dusk and the piles of debris reminded of the snowbanks left by the plows after a huge snowstorm. Fortunately we had no flooding but the is a giant tree branch that misse my sliding door by an inch and cattycornered my grill without touching it. We have seen some mega trees down and the lagoons are full and some over flowing. We were lucky that Matthew took out so many trees last year or the tree damage would have been much worse. Despite the hard work that was done by my little community to take down iffy trees this year (the arborist had come the week before Matthew to start tagging trees) - it was over a hundred - 3 trees still came down across one of the roadways.

I think the breadth of the storm really hit home when we were driving down 95 and between Ridgeland and Hardeeville, there were flooded fields stretching back I don't know how for on the west side of the highway - the median was pretty full too.

All in all, very glad to be home and in excellent condition. The resort is tentatively scheduled to reopen on Wednesday- it will be nice to get back to work.

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