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Summer Squash Casserole with Breadcrumbs
We went down to the farmer’s market this morning. The girls want a dog. (Our local shelter exhibits some of the available ones each Saturday.) I wanted produce. Some gorgeous baby summer squash caught my eye and I bought a mix of yellow crookneck, zucchini, and another lighter green one.
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Marinara Sauce Redux
Again with the tomatoes… This time I started with a recipe from Feed Your Family Fast, Healthy Meals on $10 a Day but roughly tripled it. The colander of tomatoes had been staring at me for a couple of days and more appear daily on the plants! I’ll say up front that it came out…
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Pasta or Pizza Sauce with Fresh Tomatoes
I’ve made this before with canned diced tomatoes but not yet fresh. I’m just at the simmering point as I write this and have already added a bit of water. I think alot of the juices ran off the cutting board when I was dicing them. The garden is loaded with Romas right now so…
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Black Bean Mole
I did NOT soak the beans, just rinsed them and then covered with water and cooked about 2 hours, plus the 30 minutes at the end so don’t be put off if it’s early afternoon and you decide to try these. I used them as a starter course but they’d make an excellent dinner with…
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Salmon with Peach-Tomato Salsa
I set out tonight with the memory of the delicious salmon dinner my brother and sister-in-law prepared for us up in Washington state last week. We’d gone to Pike’s Market in Seattle and picked up some fresh wild salmon for dinner. My brother created a foil “tray” with a lip slightly larger than the salmon…