NEW August hits and misses (678 views)

Excellent

• Blueberry jam – BA

• Lemon curd – Fine Cooking – super easy

• Zucchini and leek soup – It’s all easy – liked it cold with 1 cup water and 3 T olive oil – made 3 servings

• Summer squash pizza – SK blog – toast the breadcrumbs. Dough is hard to work with

• Zucchini fritters – SK blog – used light sour cream

• Middle eastern herb and garlic chicken – NY Times - used sumac as suggested, and subbed dried oregano. Liked the sauce from zucchini fritters better

• Blueberry muffins – SK – baked for 22 minutes, used 1/2 a teaspoon of turbinado sugar, and 3/4 cup of sour cream weighed 170 g. Would add vanilla next time

• Lemon zucchini bread – two peas -

used 1/2 white whole wheat flour, 1/2 cup more zucchini, 1/4 cup less sugar, and 1/2 the glaze. It baked in 45 minutes. I also made mini-loaves which baked in 32 minutes.

• Leek toasts –SK - so surprisingly good –

• Blueberry crumb cake – SK – loved

• Tomato and goat cheese tart – MS – super easy and delicious



Very good

Skillet cornbread – Chowhound -

Blueberry caprese salad – Floating Kitchen blog -

Basil and spinach pesto - It’s all easy

Caesar salad dressing - Orangette



Not for us

• Zucchini shrimp scampi – SO bland -

• Peanut butter chocolate chip cookie dough blizzard



Tried and true



Tomato, peach, and burrata salad

Corn salad – BC

roasted cauliflower – Fine Cooking

pesto shrimp - www.onceuponachef.com/2014/06...to-shrimp.html

Lemon thyme grilled chicken breasts – NY Times -

Grilled peach, blueberry, and goat cheese arugula salad – Two peas and their pod -

Burst tomato galette with corn and zucchini – SK – subbed ¼ cup of flour with whole wheat flour.