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 It's hot and sticky again today, but the past few days have been gloriously cool. Yesterday, in fact, while it rained most of the day, I baked. I baked both a chicken roast for dinner and made some new fancy "fan buns."  The recipe came from Cook's and, while we subscribe to that magazine happily, sometimes their recipes are weirdly picky. 

recipe from cooks
Image: fancy pants buns...that may be more trouble than they are worth.

But, they actually turned out EXACTLY as ADVERTIZED:
fancy buns
Image: fancy fan buns being fancy (and, as it happened tasty.)

The recipe wasn't as hard as I expected it to be, either. If people are interested, I can include it in the comments.I should note that I have a bread hook for my mixer, and so some of why this wasn't hard is that I let the machine do a lot of the work. I always hand-knead a little, but I think this would have been very messy without the dough hook.

They look like they should be like filo (or phyllo), but they taste more like pull-aparts? Very buttery, regardless. That part was a real treat. They were a very fancy addition to our chicken roast.

I made overnight stock with the remains of the chicken and I used the opportunity to also clean out my vegetable drawer of any straggling bits of kale or cabbage from previous week's CSAs. I think I even threw in a zucchini. It all cooked down lovely overnight and now I have three large jars of fresh chicken stock. Yum!

In other excitement, we have a ton of refrigerator pickles now. So many, in fact, that I had to give a few away. Yesterday we went out for a walk before the rain hit and discovered a neighbor had left a huge box of cucumbers "free" for the taking, so I grabbed a few and went home and made a few jars worth.  Then, today was CSA... and we got more pickling cucumbers.  

Speaking of, what we got this time were: Chinese long beans (yard long beans), red beets, cucumbers (pickling), cucumbers (slicing), a giant head of cauliflower, collard greens, garlic, green onions, banana peppers, and a pint of cherry tomatoes (which I already re-homed.)

csa with giant-ass cauliflower
Image: CSA as listed out above--not pictured cherry tomatoes (rehomed) and pickling cucumbers as they were legion.  

I am uncertain what I will be doing with a cauliflower larger than my head, but at least I like cauliflower?  My family will also eat it raw, with dill dip, so that is a use for SOME of it. I will have to get creative with the rest.

Banana peppers are a favorite of mine, though I tend to like them best pickled and at this point there are so many things pickling in my fridge, I'm not sure I want to add another. 

I continue to be very happy with our CSA, though I would not kill for some more variety?  I am probably alone in being very excited to open a box and discover a vegetable that I have literally never eaten before in my life. Probably there is less waste when they give us the same sorts of things that we we definitely eat, like beets, carrots, and cucumbers. 

I'm starting to get a lot of carrots in the fridge. I should probably find something interesting to do with those, too.

Otherwise, I hope you are all well and well fed!

Here is a picture of my cat, Buttercup, snoozing on the floor.

zonked out buttercup
Image: cat lips! Curling paws!



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