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Lobster and white wine sauce over zucchini noodles. Tomato, watermelon and feta salad. Sam's had 8-to-10 ounce tails on sale for $19.99 a pound, so I bought a couple.Boiled, taken from the shell, cut in chunks. Observation: Zucchini noodles do not play well with white wine sauce. Lobster, however, plays very well with it indeed. Salad had a honey-citrus-balsamic dressing I make by the pint and keep in the fridge. It was the last of my current jar. Must make some more.

Tomatoes, raspberry rolls (!) (like cinnamon rolls, except with raspberry jam instead of butter/sugar/cinnamon), a weird sort of squash that has a firmer texture than zucchini or yellow squash, that I thought would be good to spiralize, purple hulled peas (in the basket, barely visible) that I'll shell and freeze, eggs, sausage, yellow squash to blanch and freeze.

Such great meals. Baselerd, that ramen is a thing of beauty; and Liuzhou, I would love to sample that spaghetti with Jinhua ham. I presume the ham is similar to jamon Iberico, or proscuitto? Another traditional Southern dinner here; Meat loaf, purple hulled peas, potato salad, squash sauteed with onions. No photo. I was lazy.

Interesting. I have a recipe for fish cakes, using fish poached in white wine and made in the style of crab cakes, that I want to try. The corn is a natural, but I would never have thought of hearts of palm, either. Filing that away for future reference....

Short ribs, which will go in for a 48-hour cook with a marinade of gochujang, brown sugar, soy sauce and sesame oil. Think I'll finish them on the grill Saturday night. Edited to correct typo.

I commend to any of you list-makers who don't do a pre-printed one, the smartphone app "Out of Milk." it will divide your list into sections (dairy, produce, etc.), keep up with things you frequently buy, and allow several family members to log in so the kids can put ice cream and Twinkies on Mom or Dad's list. It'll also calculate per-unit price (ounce or serving). Handy little free app, as long as I'm certain my battery-gobbling phone is charged when I go to the store.

My first "zoodles," my spiralizer having arrived earlier this week. (I love Amazon Prime.). These were in a lemon cream sauce with some corn and a handfull of roasted, frozen cherry tomatoes, and topped with a lemon-butter tilapia filet. Daughter and I agreed we could have done without the lemon either in the sauce or on the fish, but in general, highly approved of the zoodles. I foresee many zoodles in our future.

Hard to beat! (although some bacon would not go amiss....)

It was actually supposed to be a squash casserole, but I got too much liquid in it. I cut the squash in chunks and steamed it soft; mashed it with a potato masher. Added half-and-half, grated cheese, cracker crumbs and an egg. Stirred it up and baked it. Too much half and half or not enough cracker crumbs, but it turned out creamier than usual. What I get for not measuring anything. Shelby, you got to be envious of my early tomatoes....now I'm envious of your Silver Queen corn. Fingers crossed I can buy some when I'm in North GA later this month.

Nothing exceptional, but a good, old-fashioned Southern dinner. Chicken and dressing (shredded chicken baked into dressing), canned cranberry sauce, braised green beans, creamed squash.

Enjoyed the stay on the Island. Safe travels to y'all!

The recipe is on Food.com, so I have no idea how old it may be -- I would presume not terribly old. My oven is a conventional one, and in fact, cooks lower than the temp on the dial; I have to set it up a little higher than the called-for temp. I don't think it should have made any difference that I was roasting a chicken beside it, should it?

It's a mimosa without orange juice and fizz. Perfectly acceptable.

Still too stinkin' hot to do much cooking, so -- Chicken salad with grapes, almonds and water chestnuts (foreground), accompanied by a warmed over piece of tomato/corn pie that fell apart, but still tasted fine, and pineapple.

Got an early start, before it got too hot, and made New Best Recipes' Sandwich Bread. There are tomatoes waiting!

I would note that Crystal Shawanda is performing tonight. She's great. Y'all ought to go.

Thanks!

Franci, that strawberry pistachio dessert is simply gorgeous. I have lots of fresh peaches, so I made a peach kuchen. Very good, although the recipe called for baking an hour at 350, and this was after about 45 minutes. Slightly overcooked.

Thanks! Didn't mean to make you go to any trouble. They are lovely clams, and I can only imagine how good they taste. Would love a bowl of clams right now! Yum. Must look for the Julia recipe. Love cucumbers and dill together, but don't think I've ever had a cooked cucumber. Yesterday, I put together what may have been the best flight of imagination I've ever done in the kitchen. After the less-than-stellar experience with the tomato pudding, I was still jonesing for a tomato dish. I recalled a tomato pie, went looking for the recipe, read it, and walked into my kitchen and found corn I needed to do something with. I sliced assorted tomatoes, lightly salted them, and put them on a rack to dry. One layer went into a partially baked pie crust; sprinkled bacon lardons on top of that. I topped that with a deconstructed Mexican street corn -- kernels sliced off three ears, stirred in a mixture of Greek yogurt, ancho chile powder, cumin, onion powder; layered that over the tomatoes and bacon. Repeated the layers, and then added a layer of the cherry and grape tomatoes. Topped the whole thing with a mixture of mayonnaise, grated cheddar, queso fresca (which I'd meant to put in with the corn but forgot) and cream, and for good measure, sprinkled more queso fresco on top. Baked at 350 for about 45 minutes. Heavenly! (edited to remove extraneous photo)

I would love a recipe for kimchee potato salad. I have met very few potato salads I didn't iike.

What about the ubiquitous "green stuff" and "pink stuff"? Jell-O based salads with cool whip and/or cottage cheese and/or sour cream and assorted fruit and nuts stirred in? Another standard church pot-luck item. One reason church pot-lucks still make me feel about 8. Which I assuredly am not.

The honey vanilla seems smooth to me (the brown sugar cinnamon does not, which is due to the graininess of the brown sugar, which is a reason I don't like it). You can email them and ask for a sample and they'd likely ship you one. They have sample jars they send to prospective retailers. (Edited to close parentheses.)

Not being much of a maker of confections, I don't often post in this forum, though I do lurk to admire others' works of art. But my daughter, the Pinterest queen, found a "pin" for Rice Krispy Treat "starfish" she wanted me to make for my grandson's "beach party" birthday. One makes the standard Rice Krispy treat, rolled out thinner than common on a cookie sheet, and cuts into star shapes. Then one frosts them (I used a commercially prepared caramel frosting), and dips in graham cracker crumbs, pressing to be certain the crumbs completely cover and adhere to the frosting. Then one puts "eyes" (little candy buttons) on them. Wish I had a photo of the finished product. They were kinda cute. And I got to eat the trimmings.

Please allow me to get in a shameless plug here for a new product -- Nut Butter Nation, an all-natural, non-GMO peanut butter in traditional and flavored versions. May be acquired here. Disclaimer: This is my daughter and son-in-law's startup, which is based in Nashville, TN, and going great guns at this moment. Sorry if the blatant commercialism of my promotion of it isn't proper -- please remove the post if that's the case! But FWIW, while I don't care for the dark chocolate or the brown sugar, the honey vanilla is Da Bomb!

This one? A staple of every church pot-luck I ever attended in my life (and I attended a LOT of 'em!). Always the first dessert to go, though it was a close race with the pecan pie.