I'm making tiramisu today, using the sponge cake recipe from the King Arthur Flour cookbook, and Lavender Soap's mascarpone topping recipe.Last week, our friend, Carol, gave us some concord grapes. The harvest wasn't great this year, but there was enough to attempt a juice recipe I saw in Mother Earth News. Since we'd run out of quart jars from canning 80+ jars of tomatoes, I had to make do with other jars we still had left. But, aren't they cuuute? Egassner might recognize the smaller jars as the ones she'd canned tuna in (very yummy tuna it was too!).
Here's the recipe by Suzanne Mullins of Charlottesville, VA:Measure 2 cups of whole stemmed grapes into a quart jar.
Add 1 cup of sugar (more or less to taste)
Fill the container with boiling water.
Process it for 10 minutes in a water-bath canner.
6 weeks later, strain out the liquid, dilute this concentrate by half with water, and you'll have 2 quarts of ready-to-drink grape juice.
Speaking of cuuute, here are the teens (ds#1 is the hunched one to the left...egads that kid has bad posture) doing the biology lab - thanks, Meg for passing along your lab stuff and your knowledge!!! - that I'm running for them this year.
On Friday when dh had a late day, I made anchovy pizzas for dinner (using the dough recipe from Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day), and I also made bleu cheese dressing for the salad made with lettuces and greens from our garden. This is a bleu cheese dressing recipe from dh's mom that I've never tried before. It turned out really well! Here it is, in the little blue bowl that used to belong to my dear MIL, and the recipe in her own handwriting:
As for the giveaway, the prize will be this handmade (by moi!) bone-motif ceramic bead. But, you'll have to come back mid-week for details. Yes, I'm a tease.
"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be." ~ Douglas Adams
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The blue cheese and its sweet little bowl with the handwritten recipe made me think about my Mom. XOXO
Bleu cheese recipe please! Thanks. And I can't wait for it to cool down here so I can start making soup and baking again too. sigh... soon I hope...
Wow, you are so busy cooking!
Aw, look at the lab. In your kitchen! Hopefully any residue left on the island was tasty. ;)
What a cute bowl. I'm waiting with bated breath for the giveaway.
What a tease you are!! That bowl is adorable....Count me in~ looking forward to details.
homemade pizza sounds good, guess I need to pull out that book, since we have it! And the homemade bleu cheese dressing sounds heavenly.
Well look at you cooking away! Ummm...can you please deliver some of those cookies to me (and Quincy)? Quincy would so love for a visit from you (with the cookies). Lol! I LOVE concord grapes. My favorite jelly has always been concord but I can never find it anywhere. It's weird. Oh and that reminds me, I really NEED to get that Artisan Bread book. I am terrible at making breads but this book is screaming at me to try one more time. Lol!
Hope you guys had a great weekend!
xoxo
Michelle and the kids
Allison, awww, your mom sounded as wonderful as my MIL was. Hugs!
Grace, you got it: it'll be today's post. :)
Wendy, LOL! I'd not want to lick any of the chemicals they used in that lab (Bromothymol blue and iodine) off the island...that's why I cover it with newsprint before they do their lab.
Wendy and Carrie, I do hope you know that the bowl is not the giveaway prize! =) I can't give away this inheritance.
Carrie, I'm so rotten sometimes, eh? LOL!
Suds, I kept going back to the Mother Earth News article with the recipe from that book and decided that I should get the book for the other tips and recipes it offers. :)
Michelle, the cookies are gone! I'm raising teenagers here...no food ever lasts long. Quincy will have to move in with me if he hopes to have any. ;) You should try making your own Concord grape jelly! It's very easy to do. Hugs back!
Anchovy Pizza????
My mothers fav pizza was anchovy. Gave her hives because she was allergic but she loved it anyway. LOL!
Me no anchovies please. LOL!
Woops, I MEANT the bead. My mind has been mixing up a lot of words lately for some reason!
Last week, I referred to my kitty, Shiva, as "shitty".
He was not amused.
Michelle_Pixie, anchovies give you good doses of vitamin D! =) We're lucky we're not allergic.
Wendy, *grin* And calling Shiva "shitty" is hilarious! Cats are never amused; that gives them their charm. ;D
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