My Saturday Six

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dawnnys

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- Lemon pancakes/crepes for breakfast, with sour creme, sprinkled with a little sugar

- Making lavender-lemon-mint tea from backyard ingredients

- Planted some jalapeno seedlings this a.m.

- Sweet and spicy Asian turkey breast in the crockpot tonight, over noodles

- Planning to work on a Creative Memories album tomorrow - supposed to rain here

- Orange stir-fried shrimp for Sunday dinner

(Dull, eh?)

 
I actually had a pretty good & productive Saturday!

I've been so out of it lately that everything is just out of sorts so it was a big thing for me to get it so pulled together today - feels great!!! It was DH's birthday. I was asking him last night about what all his mother fixed when he was a kid & decided I would fix fried chicken with mashed potatoes & gravy. He decided he ALSO wanted venison burgers. So...

Gave the kitchen a pretty deep clean (except oven & fridge) & laid out the venison.
Went to the farmer's market - barely got there before they closed & this sweet little Cambodian farmer LOADED me up because I bought one bunch of (3) HUGE daikon(I just wanted one) and one bunch of (4) small kolrabi - $5. He gave me two of each.
Went to Costco and the grocery to round out the other items needed.
Unloaded & put away the groceries and got most of my prep done prior to my stepsons arriving.
Got the meal done, ate, got things cleaned up pretty quickly & finally sat down about 8:45. One dog on the back of the chair I'm in & the other on the ottoman at my feet.

Maybe I am getting back my mojo after almost six months of having the 'blahs'.

Oh silly as it is, for about the second or third time, one of my reviews on Yelp was chosen as featured review - sort of feel like I have been 'published'.

 
Spent 3 days making life size guitar cake for my 13 yr. old grandson.

I have a good picture but now can't find the instructions you sent me to put it up on the site.
The cake was fine - I did 2 layers with chocolate frosting inbetween and around sides of cake. Made fairly realistic "guitar color" for top. Did the neck with black frosting and used
white piping for 3 strings and thin rice noodles for the other (his strings are white and translucent). Used white chocolate chips for upper top and found some great white round candy pops for knobs on side. Total 5 cakes.
It was a big hit - it Fortunately I also made Cathy's oven baked chicken from an earlier thread this week so I had some food to eat inbetween tasting cakes and frosting. The chicken
was great too.

 
Glad you are feeling better and happy b-day to dh! I am not familiar w/ Yelp. Can you link?

 
Sounds adorable, Elaine. The following is a link for putting the picture(s) directly in

a post.

If you want to post a link to a picture (not actually IN the post, but at Photobucket), you just go to photobucket.com, upload a picture from your computer, then copy the command in the "direct link" option. Come back to Eat.at and paste that link in the "image URL" box at the bottom, here.

'Would love to see the guitar cake!

http://eat.at/swap/forum25/119_To_add_pictures_to_your_post_using_HTML

 
My six

1. Had my best day at the market yesterday.

2. Ordered a cookbook from Amazon called "Muffin Tin Chef: 101 Savory Snacks, Adorable Appetizers, Enticing Entrees and Delicious Desserts". The recipes sound good. It is a "look inside" option and there were some tasty looking recipes that are low carb.

3. I came across a recipe for baking No Knead bread in the crockpot. I want to give it a try.
http://www.artisanbreadinfive.com

4. I made a batch of crispy pickled jalapenos. They turned out great. The biggest jalapenos I have ever seen.

5. We are going to have a bumper crop of fruit this year; apples, pears, plums, peaches, nectarines, and crabapples. I need to figure out something to make with the crabapples.

6. Waiting to hear if I am going to be cooking at the antique store. The health department has pretty much nixed it unless I cater in. Not exactly what I want to do again. We'll see.

http://www.amazon.com/Muffin-Tin-Chef-Appetizers-Delicious/dp/161243052X/bakingsheet-20/

 
Weekend projects.....

Sat nite dinner at a friend's house for his mom. I was requested to bring cookies so I made:

*oatmeal raisin (my own version of salty oats based on a recipe from Sara Foster-they are always requested)
*sinckerdoodles with cardamom i/o cinnamon from Dori Greenspan's site, I love cardamom but was not in love with these cookies
*peanut butter cup cookies (I had let a box of TJs mini PB cups almost melt in my car, so I just cut them into chocolate chip sized pieces and stirred them into the cookies)
*a granola, coconut, white chocolate cookie.
All were fussed over and well received.

Sun nite backyard BBQ at my house with a few friends who all brought a dish, YEAH! thank you! The weather could not have been more perfect, sunny, a little breeze so no bugs and not hot. I made:

*cedar planked salmon with a mustard brown sugar glaze, this turned out great, we are grilling novices so DH went on line and read up all about how to do it. It was actually quite easy. Only thing I think we could have done better is to make sure the coals are really, really hot.
*jerk chicken with mango salsa; I think our lack of grilling skills made this a mediocre dish but the salsa was very good
*mojitoes with all the georgous mint that is abundent in the herb garden right now
*black raspberry semifreddo torte from Gourmet July 2000. All summer I puree berries for jam, left over puree gets frozen and used in this torte. I use 1C berry puree in the recipe then simmer a second cup down, add a bit of simple syrup and drizzle over each piece then top with a mixture of fresh berries from the farmers market. Lot's of groaning over this smileys/smile.gif
*coconut pie because of our recent thread about coconut pies. Pie was from Sara Foster and was good but I still want to try the one from Cooks that was in the thread.

Good cooking weekend!

 
Good to know, Barbara. I found two recipes that sound kind of good.

One is apple pie filling and the other a crab apple jalapeno jelly recipe. I think that would be tasty and make great gifts. Which recipe do you use for the jelly? Thanks!

 
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