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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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Summer Marinara Sauce for Eggplant & Zucchini Parmesan
The two of us living here right now LOVE Eggplant Parmesan and I usually do something similar to this eggplant Parmesan recipe. I’ve also made zucchini Parmesan. The first time I made that by just frying the zucchini but not breading them first and it definitely lacked a little something, although it was still good.…
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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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Marian Burros Plum Cake a la Chowhound
My Italian plum tree was totally full of fruit. They’ve been dropping on the lawn faster than I could eat them so this morning I went out and nearly stripped the tree bare. Not sure how many pounds but a huge basketful. Last year, I got almost no plums so I am intent on enjoying…