From the Kitchen: October 2009 Archives

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I have my annual Fall cold. I have been blaming my stepson for sharing his with me, but I discovered that my niece has the same cold, and she was with us for an afternoon. On top of that, I've been exposed to the swine flu, so I have spent the past two weeks pretty close to home. I chose not to go to exercise because I felt it would be wrong to share the swine flu with the senior citizens in the class. I hope to get back to exercise next week, before all my muscles turn to jello!

It's supposed to be almost 70 degrees today. It's sunny, and will be the last of the sunny days this week. We have rain forecast from this evening through Saturday. I should do a little work in the gardens, to move us through preparation for winter. My dear sis, Frankie, has done most of the work in the herb garden. I need to work at the front of the house, and in the long driveway gardens where the peonies grow.

Dear Husband was able to bring the boat home safely last weekend. Other than being swamped by a huge wave as he motored south to the yacht yard, it was a relatively uneventful trip. I suspect that he did better without my help than he does with it. He's been offloading anything that would freeze, and winterizing the motor and bilges. Poor guy. Seven months and he'll be back on the water!

Zucchini bread and pumpkin muffins are the only things I've baked so far. I'd like to make a carrot cake, and some pumpkin bread, and maybe some zucchini bread to freeze. I love the scent of fall seasonings. Cinnamon must be my all time favorite flavor!

I've managed to enter my Mother's checkbook onto Quicken, but I realized yesterday that the program sees it as my property, rather than a separate account. I need to see if there is any way to sequester that data so that I can run reports, or I'll have more work to do at tax time. Darn it all!

And that's about all the news that's fit to print. I hope you are all having a good Fall!

Dinner

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Avery Island Deviled Shrimp
Rice
Thin Fresh Whole Green Beans, Steamed
Fresh Pineapple and Giant Red Raspberries

When I was in college I bought my first cookbook. It was a Betty Crocker picture cookbook, and one of the recipes was Avery Island Deviled Shrimp. I have not cooked every recipe in that cookbook, but I'm really glad I tried this one. The shrimp is lightly breaded and browned (part olive oil/part butter) while you make a sauce of onions and garlic sauteed in butter, consomme, steak sauce, mustard and lemon juice. The shrimp is served over a bed of rice, with the sauce ladled over the shrimp. It turns out this is one of my husband's favorite meals. It seems it's the sauce that does it for him, and we now make the sauce to serve on other meals. The fresh fruit was just the perfect ending to the meal.

Today was gorgeous! I spent the entire day at home in my quilt studio. The windows were washed yesterday and the view was of a perfect Fall day. I was working at the sewing machine, piecing blocks for a quilt top, mentally planning putting the gardens to bed in the next few weeks.

Dinner has put a nice cap to that day.

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