miscellaneous

Pickles last weekend: http://www.finecooking.com/recipes/pickled-cauliflower-carrots-red-bell-pepper.aspx

Then made more peach-ginger jam. MMMM.

Tonight I made an herbed pork loin roast for dinner - I ground up garlic, rosemary, basil, and sage with some salt and pepper in olive oil, smeared it over the pork loin, made some shallow slashes, and rubbed it in, then roasted it. Also MMMMM.

Tentative meal plan for this week:

Monday:
Bacon
Waffles
Fruit

Tuesday:
Chicken/fish sticks
Frozen vegetables
Salad/crudites
Bread/rolls
Fruit

Wednesday:
Chicken fried steak/hamburgers
Mashed potatoes/gravy
Broccoli
Biscuits

Thursday:
Fish/shellfish
Farmers Market vegetables
French Bread

Friday:
Pizza

Saturday:
Hot dogs
Smores if the weather is good

Sunday:
Pasta
Breadsticks
Salad

canning today

Mint jelly, from the recipe in the Certo box, made from the exploding mint on the patio, and pickled peppers, made from this recipe from peppers from the garden. TMOTH planted some kind of "hot" pepper but it is NOT AT ALL hot - but I planted jalapenos, and they ARE hot. Each jar of pickles got one hot pepper :)

Crab cakes

recipe here

We had steamed crabs for our anniversary dinner, and had picked crab left over. I wound up with 5 crab cakes from what we had; we each had one for dinner and I'm freezing the rest. (We being TMOTH and me ~ no way the boys would try it.)

I mostly followed the recipe, except for the Old Bay. I just hate it. So I subbed in Zatarain's instead.