Breakfast/Brunch, Desserts, Sweet Snacks

Gravenstein Apple Turnovers

Breakfast on the go with these *handy* Gravenstein Apple Turnovers. OK, they don’t have to be Gravenstein Apples, any baking apple will do, but I went apple pickin’ recently and picked this type. Convenient breakfast if you’re headed out of the house (not that I personally do that much these days, but you know… if real life were actually real life these days). Very easy and straight forward as it uses store-bought puff pastry.
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Dinner, Lunch, Soups

Salmon Shrimp and Lobster Stew

I’m never sure when something is a “chowder” or when it has become a “stew”. I suspect that it is actually a bit arbitrary, so while I would normally call this a chowder, I’m going with stew this time. Loaded with salmon, jumbo shrimp, lots (!!!) of Maine lobster, plus potatoes, carrots and peas. Yeah, the peas are a little out of the ordinary. Because as Sunday dinner as the temperature begins to cool in Autumn!
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Cookies, Sweet Snacks

Spiced Peach Swirl Cookies

I had intended to make rugulach. But then last night, just before I rolled up the rolls here, I found myself uninspired and frankly, a bit lazy. And I couldn’t find my ruler — and if you know me, I can’t cut a straight line if I tried. So, instead, I rolled the rugulach dough into logs, with the jam spread in the inside, and baked these Spiced Peach Swirl Cookies up this morning. Turned out it was a pretty nice compromise.
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Lunch, Sandwiches/Paninis

Open-faced Maine Crabmeat Melt

Lunch! I don’t normally show off my lunch — heck, most of the time, I skip lunch altogether — but today, for the CSPS Cook/Bake-a-Long Seafood Week, I made these awesome Open-face Crabmeat Melts with a fresh tomato from my garden (the only really big tomato that really did well, though I did grow hundreds of cherry tomatoes). The crabmeat was from Maine, but any fresh crabmeat will do. Now I ate too much and could really use a nap! 🙂
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