Good evening! Just finished half-way watching 'The Bachlorette' - such a silly show and I really think it is scripted! But just fun escape! I said half-way
because dinner was ready just before it started, ate, then had to clean up - even though Travis did a lot of it -- but I wanted it really fixed! My computer is so messed up again - everytime I hit the enter key it pops up asking for a suddenlink password and I am not on Suddenlink - my blog is on joncarole.com??? Any ideas?
Tonight I cooked a pork loin that I had started marinating at lunch today. Ok - has anyone else had this problem? I have had two double ovens and both of them have not cooked properly in the bottom oven. They cook slower and it is very frustrating! Yesterday I tried cooking Sour dough bread in it and it took twice as long and the little pork loin that I cooked should have taken 27 minutes to reach 165 degrees and I'm not sure if I ever got it there! I am so disappointed!!
We also had fresh corn - grown in our own little garden - and a pea salad I invented because I wanted to use up the fresh tomatoes, sour dough bread toasted that had garlic, jalapeno pepper and cheese, fresh tomatoes, Noonday onions and cantalope! Now honestly - I did not eat the bread or pea salad - just don't want the calories! Thank goodness - these wonderful vegetables and fruits do not have any fat and not many calories --- otherwise summertime would be a tragedy to people who care how many calories they intake!
There are so many things you can do with fresh corn. Boil it and eat it off the cob or boil it and cut it off like my dad always did, or cut it off and make a wonderful creamed corn, or one of my favorites - shuck the corn - soak it in water for about 15 minutes and then put it on the grill and cook until tender and turning brown. It pulls the sugar out and is delicious.
Have you ever started to make a dish without a recipe - but knowing what it is suppose to have. Well this person who loves to tell someone how to cook - did that yesterday. We had some wonderful fresh peaches and my idea was to take about four of them and make a peach pie. Good idea - but with cling peaches, you don't get enough peach to make a good peach pie,so I decided to add about a cup of blueberries. I cut the peaches off, added the blueberries, added a cup of sugar, 1/3 cup flour and dash of salt and about 1 cup water. Put them on the stove and started to cook. Then I thought "why didn't I put the sugar, salt, and water on the stove, start it to boil, add the peaches and cook for a little while, add the blueberries, and then either add the flour or better yet about 3 tablespoons cornstarch to cold water, stir well and then slowly stir into the fruit and let it thicken. So simple and I knew that but I had just made a berry cobbler that you did what I did - but you know what Travis said it was good and ate two pieces that evening. So all was not lost - but it could have been prettier - with the fruit showing up better! Oh well!
I have several recipes to share - but it is so late, back is so hurting, so - I am going to wish you a good night with this: "Have a great day and remember - God has told us: "...He who created you, O Isreal, "Fear not for, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine." If He said this to Isreal, He is also saying this to each of us! He knows our name! God bless you -- do something good for someone that can't do it for themselves!
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