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Made baked shrimp with steamed broccoli over rice noodles with lo mein sauce for John for dinner last night. Unfortunately he still is not up to all that and had eggs at about 5 pm and the last of the smooch at 9 pm. I made golden pineapple rice with sushi rice and added the broccoli stems and some lo mein sauce. Tonight I am going to saute yellow and green squash with onion then use the leftover tomorrow to make a casserole for lunch.

Happy anniversary @liamsaunt!! Looks like you are enjoying your time on the cape. Yesterday was simple for me - a small macaroni and cheese with a small green salad. John has a bunch of stuff for him to choose from - pasta with roasted shrimp, smooch, chicken soup. He can eat whatever appeals to him at the time. Tonight is going to be a western sandwich for me.

Butter lettuces, peppadews, olives, croutons and some chopped up anitipasto that I found in the dairy as a "manager's special". I've been looking for and buying this lately as it gives me the best bang for my buck. John does not eat any of those "fatty meats". OK....not much, more veg and just enough for a good lunch.

Oh, great. Thanks, guys...now I am craving sage breakfast sausage the way my Pop liked them. Slow cooked so they got nice and crusty. We would have them on Sundays after church with waffles and maple syrup. I'll skip the waffle but bring on the syrup.

@liamsaunt I want these so much

Back from field work. All I want is a shower and to put my feet up but first have to take care of the shrimps I had thawed in the fridge the other day - shells off and deveined. Roasted them then cooked off pasta to which I added olives, capers, roasted peppers and olive oil along with some of my friend, Joyce's, home grown oregano. I keep them separate in the fridge - John can combine to reheat and if I want to east the pasta I don't have to deal with the shrimp taste. We also have a kind of chicken cottage pie(chicken, carrots, peas, onion, gravy) as John is craving mash so I make it and figure out where to use it so he gets the most calories with the littlest gut problems.

Baked pollock fillet crusted with gluten free bread crumbs on gluten free bread with butter lettuce and homemade tartar sauce for Johnnybird as we were checking the bluebird trail on post(Picatinny Arsenal). I ate just before we left and will eat later - I hate to eat in the field.

Please don't judge. John wanted something "easy" ie familiar. He gets up and eats "breakfast:" around noon, lunch around 5, dinner around 10 and stuff in between. I cook in batches and he only wants certain things - shrimp and pasta, smooch (bison, pasta and tomatoes), chicken noodle soup - and make sure everything is gluten free. His favorite thing when up in Poughkeepsie - filet o' fish. OK some pollack baked, tasty tots, sauteed zucchini, homemade tartar sauce. Also used some chicken and gravy, carrots, peas and a topping of mashed potatoes for a casserole he can nosh on. Tomorrow making Italian style shrimp and pasta with olive oil, olives, and capers for him. Other stuff for him will be more chicken soup and potatoes to make eggy potatoes for his breakfast and potato salad to add into snacks.

my mom's birthday was 17 June. On the East end of Long Island it was stawberry time. For the family celebration we always went and picked them at Tuttle's then brought them home, hulled and processed them ... some for shortcake, some for jam. We always made an angel food cake for Aunt Honey then the biscuits from the Bisquick box with no sugar added. Chopped strawberries macerated with some sugar. No topping. I just ate strawberries.

Start a stock without setting a timer for myself when I am downstairs doing other chores. I now need to replace a non-stick stock pot. Husband was upstairs but in the bedroom sleeping.

Maybe someone needs to try this book out tomorrow: https://theexperimentpublishing.com/catalogs/spring-2020/the-tinned-fish-cookbook/

We braved the local Home Despot on Thursday. John picked out 3 cherry tomato plants for the kitchen garden - 2 red, 1 yellow. I grabbed 2 sweet and 1 Thai basil pot. Have thyme and tarragon and got all into the ground when we got home. All I have to buy in a bit sre some scallions or chives for the green goddess dressing.

Getting warm around here so ..... made 4 bean salad salad that is marinating at room temp for another hour or so a small Greek salad I use these salads as well as coleslaw and macaroni salad, peppadews and pickled jalapenos on my lunch salads. Top with some green goddess dressing or catalina and croutons and it isjust right for me.

Did my first D'artagnan order a week or so ago. Last night some of the tasso ham buddied up with a chicken breast to make gumbo. Served over white rice. I was happy.😁

Might be a turr from Newfoundland. I'd eat it.

Ohhh.... my mm always crusted our flounder with cornflake crumbs ….then fried them in bacon fat and Crisco. Yum...…..topped with Worster sauce NOT tartar.

Thank you, thank you, thank you. If Johnnybird ever gets home we are planning some afternoons of birding. Going to have to put our South Carolina roadtrip on hold till next year and probably the cousin's weekend on Shelter Island but we can enjoy those little trips that bring us joy!!!

I second that emoji!!!

Made a cabbage/vegetable soup the other day - savoy cabbage, scallions, carrots, potatoes - trying to use up the bits and bobs in the veg drawer. Made a mushroom stock then added some red miso to it and it was really quite good; not too salty but just enough to assert itself with the veg. Had a bowl with some swirl rye bread with butter and cheese to round it out. Just enough!!

When you are in a meditation meeting at 8 am and all you can think about are ramen or corned bee f has with hash browns and eggs scrambled hard and your stomach won't stop rumbling - you make sure you have a little something before hand.

Oh, yeah. First time I had that was when the staff at Texarkana Public Library threw me a goodbye party when we moved north. And those meatballs were frozen. I have an old friend who would not make the weenies that way but with ketchup and Jim Beam.

That's fancy pants food, woman. As someone who DID live in a trailer park in Hooks, TX may I remind you about beanie weenies? Weenies in a combination of grape jelly and chili sauce?

Went to my community garden plot last night with the intention of using the communal rototiller, but it's apparently not back from its spring tuneup yet. So I dug a perimeter around my plot(s) - actually three adjoining 8' X 8' plots - since you generally need to do that after tilling anyway. Also, it gave me a chance to take a look at the soil. It seems decent...reasonably rich and friable, even after spring rains and a couple of years' disuse and compaction. Sounds like Newfoundland has stayed with you all this time. I had been trying to harden off my thyme and tarragon. They will go out to day (about 68F; around 20 C) maybe tomorrow afternoon but there is a forcast for up to 3" of snow here Friday night into Saturday. This is why when we moved here we were told not to plant anything until after 15 May.....

today was the "Venture out to buy stuff day" From the husband Ginger beer as the one I bought 2 weeks ago was not acceptable , Goslings (course he forgot to buy the Saranac brewed last weekend when he was up in Poughkeepsie).

not everyone has AC. If it is too hot/humid I hide in the basement with the dehumidifiers on. luckily it is supposed to be in the low 60s for the next week or so … definitely soup weather here.