My Saturday Six

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dawnnys

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1-Packed all the jams, jellies, and pickled-whatevers in the cupboard in the cellar. I'm done! We have a nice supply for the winter though, and friends and family got some goodies too. Also packed away my pans and jars for now.

2-Cleaning the kitchen

3-Uncluttering the kitchen (believe me, it needs de-cluttering)

4-Cleaning the kitchen again

5-Deciding whether or not to go to the Applefest near here. Always so many people. Always the same thing.

6-This a.m. went on a scavenger hunt for a Bundt cake and found lots of interesting kitchen items at the local thrift shop. I bought an electric fondue pot (for dh's 70's b'day party later in the month), a bun pan, also bought that BunDT pan, a half-size fancy tube pan for making a shorter cake (maybe it's a jello mold, but it's a cake pan now), a flip-in-half-and-squeeze lemon squeezer, and a really pretty pearl pin. I'm happy!

 
Oh, I've missed these...

1. Making nakladany hermelin tomorrow for a launch party my friend and I are doing for DailyLit projects on Wednesday.

2. To buy the jars for the hermelin (cheese marinated in herbs, red pepper strips, etc.), I'm taking a water taxi to the Ikea in Brooklyn. (Yes, there are probably jars somewhere in Manhattan, but if you can take a boat, why not?!) smileys/wink.gif

3. Need to stock up on wine for a friend arriving Wednesday for a visit. Now I wish I'd made a note of what we had when she was here last time. Fess up if you keep a notebook like that, because I think it's genius.

4. Cannot find canned pumpkin (not pumpkin pie mix) anywhere. smileys/frown.gif

5. Why aren't Herbes de Provence sold in stores other than high-end food-art stores, in the U.S.?

6. I read tonight that Tony Bourdain, at a NY Times Talks event, referred to Alice Waters as "Pol Pot in a muumuu," and I have to confess that I snickered...

 
Erin I just saw a bottle in the Goya section at a supermarket around here...

Let me know if you want to pick some up for you, I can drop them off by your office next week if you like (and sneak in a coffee?)

 
Let's see - I'll play today....

1) I'm simmering smoked ham hocks for a stock for Portuguese Bean Soup, even though it's probably 90º outside.

2) I just had a frozen brownie - the King Arthur On the Fence brownies. I think I like them better frozen than fresh! I wonder what other food you can say that about smileys/smile.gif

3) I found some Honey Crisp apples at the store for the first time this season. Had to buy some, even at $2.99 a pound.

4) Got two homegrown local avocados ripening on the counter. These are HUGE - one is 1 lb 13 oz., the other is 1 lb 4 oz. I love having friends with avocado trees!

5) Bought some truffle salt at Williams-Sonoma today. O.M.G. Crazy expensive, but sooooooo worth it!!!

6) I'm dying for a slice of homemade apple pie, but it's too hot to bake here. The trade winds were supposed to come back today (it's been gone for the last week), but it didn't. Sure hope it comes tomorrow to cool us off so I can bake!

 
Sat six!

Enjoyed the cool weather this morning with coffee outside before my Zumba class.

Lunch was leftover chili topped with some cubed avos, chopped tomatoes, cilantro and queso fresco. Onions for DH. Last of the hatch tortillas with some queso fresco inside. mmmmm

Skyped with my sweet grandbaby who got two teeth this week!

Went in search of almond flour (found it at OUR HEB store) for the plum cake I want to make tomorrow. Wish I could go apple picking with my sister in Markham, VA this week.

Going nuts with a cricket in the house. Cats aren't interested and it keeps moving around. AARRGGHHH

Brined two chicken breasts to grill tomorrow with the last of the fresh corn on the cob. I've got a couple of gorgeous heritage tomatoes and some basil (with the rain it is growing everywhere!)

 
Sandi, we can pick Honey Crisp apples here for about 80 cents a lb, but our

avocados have been running $1.99 each, lately.

 
Pick your own? I want one of those farms here - any fruit!

80 cents for Honey Crisps? Grr - it never gets that low here. I was talking to the produce guy about the Honey Crisp apples - he said they usually cost an arm and a leg, but today it was just an arm. Cute.

I also saw a Jazz apple - don't remember seeing those before. Gotta google - are they good?

 
My Sunday Six

1) Had brunch with DH which was strongly influenced by our stay in France: I had a cup of spicy tisane with chevre and plum preserves on top and a melon salad on the side. *LOL*

2) I'm picking my last tomatoes from my dearly beloved Green House today. Will make tomato sauce.

3) Have to search the net for a good recipe for tomato sauce.

4) We went to an apple farm yesterday and bought 10 pounds of apples. I'm baking apple cake today.

5) I know I need to de-clutter my kitchen like DawnNYS did yesterday. I'm just not sure I have it in me to do it today smileys/bigsmile.gif

6) I bought a zucchini for no reason earlier this week. If I can't come up with something better, I'll make zucchini bread.

 
My sister told me about the Jazz apples, she loved them.

I tried to get the co op to buy some but it was a no go. I will have to wait and see if they hit our markets.

 
My Sunday Six

1. I am craving/making chicken soup today. I made some yesterday and it is all gone.

2. I will be making a nice pot roast dinner tonight which will make my family very happy. With the leftovers, beef barley soup tomorrow.

3. We had a nice fire in our fireplace last night. It makes the unreasonably unseasonably cold weather we are having bearable.

4. I will be visiting my sister and her family this week and I can't wait to see everyone.

5. I am in the cooking/baking mood today which makes me very happy.

6. And the best one of all is that I came up with an idea for a new business at the Farmer's Market for next spring. I think it is a winning idea, but I can't share it yet. As soon as I get it all worked out, I will. YAY!!!

 
My Sunday Six

- I'm finally starting to feel human after having the flu /virus thing for 11 days, yesterday I only spent half the day in bed! Today my voice is sounding like a girl again, yipee!

- A friend came by yesterday bearing gifts: a jar of homemade Russian pickles - they are not very vinegary, I will have to get her recipe for y'all, wasn't there some pickle discussions a while back? She also brought a huge jar of chicken soup and she made me eat a very large bowlfull. It was heaven, had celeryroot, which I love, onion, porcini, celery, carrot and barley. Nothing like a bowl of love! She also brought a small terrine of kutlyeti, her chicken cutlets, little patties of chicken ground with sweet onion, carrot and milk soaked bread. Kutlyeti are the best thing on earth! They were still warm, ahhh... Sadly they're all gone now, I haven't had an appetite but I ate 2 immediately and by the time she went home they were all gone. smileys/bigsmile.gif

- I'm convinced that dill is one of the best herbs out there. I mean, really, it's good on everything. It was in the soup and the pickles, I love it on tomato soup too, on potatoes, fish, chicken, lamb, goat cheese, mushrooms....

- I'm hoping to cook something today, besides eating my soup-gift. I have several apples and figs and wonder if I can do something with them, perhaps not together. I may just cook down the figs as i'm out of fig jam and that's a sad thing. One basket of figs should make a nice pot for the fridge. For the apples, I have half a can of Dulce de leche left (the rest I confess to eating with ice cream!), so I'm thinking of using some puff paste from the freezer and doing little turnovers or perhaps my favorite apple cake and swirling in the caramel??I hear on Twitter and elsewhere people are making pies with apples and the Dulce, but I don't have enough apples, or butter for that matter to make a tarte dough.

- Since I haven't shopped in a while, the state of commestibles in the produce bin is low, but I do have a basket of mushrooms, herbs, onion, a russet and a Yukon potato, 2 stalks of celery, those teardrop shaped cherry tomatoes and some sugar peas. Sounds like something can be done with them for a modest Sunday dinner, pasta perhaps? Please let me know if something comes to mind.

- Monday we are expecting the remnants of the typhoon that hit Taipei etc to hit here, rain is forecasted and the high/low temperatures are the same: 60/60 how weird is that! I have to go the bank and TJ's to stock up before the rain starts! I can't wait for rain, sounds so cozy, doesn't it? It's crockpot weather so I think I'll splurge on a pot roast!

Wishing you a great Sunday!

 
Thanks, Sandra--I should look near home; we have a place with row after row of Goya....

...but yes, let's get together for coffee--and thanks for the offer. smileys/smile.gif (Less schleppage, I think, if I try the market near us first. Good idea, though--I hadn't thought to look in the Goya aisle!)

 
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