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| It's been a quiet month here. |
Changing Seasons Outside My Kitchen Door
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Early morning, first day of Autumn from my kitchen door.
A very cool rainy day after a long warm spell. |
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Later, we had more sun, but the leaves are turning.
The weather now is nice, and more sunshine is predicted. |
Grilling
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Autumn evenings are lovely, but it now gets dark rather early for outdoor dining,
and soon it will be dark early and maybe too chilly for outdoor cooking.
On the table: Len's old iPhone. He has now upgraded to the newly-released version. |
Cooking and Eating At Home |
| Duck eggs. Big but they taste pretty much like normal eggs. |
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| The table set for four of us! |
We were at home for the entire month of September, and we cooked and ate almost every meal at home. My sister and brother-in-law visited us for a few days. Once during their visit, we got some take-out sandwiches, cider, and donuts to eat as a picnic at the Dexter Cider Mill — otherwise we ate at home. I didn't take pics at the cider mill this year, as it's always the same, but here are last year's photos:
Cider and Donuts.
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| Homemade tomato and pumpkin soup in the refrigerator. |
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Another refrigerator scene: chicken and roast vegetables in my
vintage CorningWare casserole which I received as a wedding present. |
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| Cauliflower cheese, browned in the toaster oven. |
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| Local tomatoes are becoming hard to find. |
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| Len continues to bake many kinds of bread, all wonderful. |
What passes for excitement in my neighborhood?
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| A huge tree fell a few blocks from here during one of the beginning-of-autumn storms. |
Blog post and photos © 2021 mae sander.
Your food looks tasty, and that corningware looks just like mine :) So many of us have it that it was a FB meme at one point: "How many of your parents have these"? And my daughter said, "Mine!" :)
ReplyDeleteLooks like a fun and tasty month. Love that your guy bakes homemade bread!
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing these photographs, it looks to have been a good month.
ReplyDeleteFood looks tasty, love the cauliflower cheese and the home-made bread.
Happy October wishes.
All the best Jan
OMGosh, Mae. I want that cauliflower cheese. It looks wonderful. Of course, I would like some of Len's bread and maybe some of his grilling, too. I love how you set your table for four. I love eclectic.
ReplyDeleteHopefully no one was hurt when the tree feel. Your CorningWare looks like it's served you well for many years. Shabbat Shalom Mae.
ReplyDeleteYes, the darkness hits me the most.
ReplyDeleteIngo went to get local pumpkin. After that crap "summer" it was so awful it ended in the compost bin.
Nice casserole.
Hmmmm!!!! You cooked the cauliflower, salt, pepper, cheese and then mini-oven? Or how? How long?
It looks yummy! Recipe, please?
Wow, some tree!
To IRIS: Cauliflower cheese is a British favorite, in which par-boiled cauliflower is baked in a cheese sauce with a topping of cheese and crumbs. Here's a recipe from the BBC (classic English!!) which is how I made it but with a another melting cheese:
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Len is such a talented baker! I love his bread.
ReplyDeleteI'm an avid bread baker, too. I've had the best results with baking in a cast-iron pot. Your husband's bread looks great.
ReplyDeleteThere was a huge tree down here on one of our town's main streets after the small hurricane that came through a couple of weeks ago.
We took one overnight trip in September and are heading to Montreal today for a quick overnight visit with family, the first in 18 months.
ReplyDeleteWe mostly ate at home also. I did have a couple of food court lunches after the proof of vaccination rule kicked in.
It's been getting down to about 48 in the evening here, making it more difficult to eat outside. That homemade tomato and pumpkin soup sounds really interesting and tasty.
ReplyDeleteOur days are getting longer so thinking about eating outside.
ReplyDeleteYour cauliflower cheese looks delicious!
Wow, that is one massive tree. Have a great October!
ReplyDeleteMmm I could just smell the wonderful smells, esp the grilling while looking at your pictures.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for visiting my blog!
Tee from @twogirlsandtheirbookishlife
I'm coming to your house to eat. Wow everything looks so good and that bread. Your oven is a bit bigger than mine. I really enjoyed this post.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing a bit of your life with us Mae.
ReplyDeleteI loved seeing your food and kitchen in context Mae. It's a larger glimpse into your life. Cauliflower cheese was always a favorite of my mother's and grandmother's, I need to consider making it as the cauliflower in my garden is ready to harvest. That tree is enormous! It must have been a very heavy storm. I love the sight of that rain, sigh...jealousy.
ReplyDeletewow that is one huge tree that fell! looks like lots of delicious food at your place Mae. We have done more cooking over covid than ever before. and gained a bit of avoir dupois :-) Thanks for your interesting IMK post. How nice to have a baking hubby. Mine cooks but doesn't bake:)
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till next time
sherry x
oh yes we had that exact same corning ware dish! sold it on ebay.
ReplyDeleteThat was an enormous tree! We've had a few taken down in the last few months as a safety concern. The bread baking is always nice to see and hear about. I haven't ever had the pleasure of eating duck eggs...mmmmm.
ReplyDeleteChanging seasons indeed. i do love the shot of the table from above.
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