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Eggs Benedict: When Life Gives You Eggs
Two of my hens are laying regularly again finally, with the third just getting over her broodiness. They’ll likely slow down for the winter but I had 18 eggs in the fridge after gathering the two new ones today! I hard-boiled up a few and decided to make Eggs Benedict for dinner. I used the…
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September Cooking and Gardening
I have been cooking, but much of it has been in terms of canning and freezing and drying. And it’s a whirlwind on the weekends and I forget to take pictures. Yesterday I had friends for dinner. I marinated a flank steak in my mom’s standby flank steak marinade with olive oil, lemon juice, garlic…
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Midweek Entertaining and A Chicken and Bees Talk
We had some family friends with younger kids over for dinner tonight. The mom brought salad and dessert (brownies and watermelon, perfect in my book!) and I made chicken cutlets, pasta and a zucchini casserole. I didn’t expect the younger crowd to get into the casserole but I’ve got lots of zucchini so that’s what…
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Plum Jam from Italian Plums aka Prune Plums
Using up the last of the plums that I picked over the weekend. These are a yellow fleshed plum, oval in shape. I think they’re called Italian Plums or Prune Plums. Lovely to eat fresh, good dried–and now we’ll find out about jam! I started with this, because I had no pectin. I left the…
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Preserving the Bounty of the Garden
The garden is coming in strong finally now that we have some hot weather. It’s been a wacky year weather wise here. My pickling cucumbers are not giving me as much fruit as in past years, but still enough to play with some pickles. I’ve dried various summer squash. That’s a new one for me.…