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I Don't Think a Restaurant Could Do it Better

July 20th, 2012 at 01:53 am

Tonight's dinner was fantastic. I absolutely love it when a super easy meal comes together so superbly. Grilled pork chops, corn on the cob, drop biscuits with homemade jam, just a few blackberries from the garden and broccoli/cauliflower/yellow summer squash. And freshly squeezed lemonade from scratch. I had originally planned to make daikon medallions for the low carb veg, but the daikon was extraordinarily limp when I went shopping and I wasn't going to buy it when it was not firm and crisp. Fortunately there was plenty of broccoli and cauliflower on hand.

There was just so much flavor in the meal that everyone was more than satisfied and we just kept saying things like MMMmmm and that was good, etc., during the whole meal. Not bad for boiling a couple of things and throwing something else on the George Foreman grill. The most complicated thing was making the biscuits and that's just four ingredients. Takes me less than five minutes to mix it and drop them onto the cookie sheet.

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I picked two pints of blackberries today. In two or three more days I should have enough in the freezer to make jam.

DH has been home since midnight on Tuesday and let's just say the strawberry jam level is getting very low. The pint was almost full when he got home. To be fair he is not the only one eating it, but it is less than 1/4 full now. Good thing I have several more jars, but I need to make some other flavors quick before he plows through it all.

I still haven't made my apricot jam, but I plan to do that soon. Maybe tonight.

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I don't think I am going to get as many tomatoes as I had hoped for by the end of the season, but there is a sustainable farm that grows really good ones in my county and I think it might be well worth it to buy a couple of bushels from them if I need to.

Posted in Meal Planning, Sustainable Living | 4 Comments »

4 Responses to “I Don't Think a Restaurant Could Do it Better”

  1. mamasita Says:
    July 20th, 2012 at 11:49 am 1342784975
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    The meal sounds delicious! I have also been discovering that meals at home are tasting better than many at restaurants.

    My tomato production for the year thus far is: 2 Frown To be fair, I probably needed to add more soil and work a little harder at the container. Now I fear it's too late!

  2. patientsaver Says:
    July 20th, 2012 at 12:21 pm 1342786870
    1342786870

    Here in Zone 6 Connecticut, you always have to wait a really long time for ripe tomatoes, but once they begin, it's like a faucet that can't be turned off.

    Here it is mid-July and still just had a few cherry tomatoes. Lots of green ones, just not ripe.

  3. ceejay74 Says:
    July 20th, 2012 at 02:24 pm 1342794241
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    I like how you report your weekly meal plan and your meals. Maybe I'll start doing that as well. I have done various similar things on this site -- I photographed my dinner every day for about 7 months and posted it, and I tracked my grocery spending itemized by meal for about a month -- but that was just too time-consuming. We do our meal plan and grocery list electronically in Google docs, so it would be quick and easy to paste it onto my blog.

  4. rob62521 Says:
    July 20th, 2012 at 03:33 pm 1342798386
    1342798386

    Your meal sounds wonderful. Like mamaista, I'm finding meals at home are better than restaurants. I think it is because many restaurants are cutting back on using cheaper ingredients to keep their prices the same.

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