Amy - I live in CT too (you're in MA?), our tomato plants are growing like a jungle, lots of fruit but nothing ripening! Told DH I had a recipe for green tomato pickles but he didn't think that sounded good. We planted Sweet 100's and Early Girls. Plus a couple of butternut squash (hope those do well) and lots of lettuce hoping for a salad garden. The lettuce I started from seed at Mem Day is about an inch tall, the seedlings I got for free from nursery a month ago just got very tall and have started to flower, hardly any leaves so I haven't picked - we've been eating grocery store salad all summer! We have wild blueberries and blackberries, about 2 cups of each all summer long (blueberry bushes are growing well since we've cleared around them, but hardly any fruit - not enough sun). We're going to try transplanting some of the ones that are far back in the woods to sunnier spots along edge of lawn, maybe we'll get more next year. I'm making blueberry buckle (my grandma's recipe) for reunion this weekend, probably make a blackberry crumble tonight. I'd love to get recipe for raspberry chocolate jam so when the rest ripen I can try that. My dad gave me a couple huge (as long as my forearm) zucchini, I made 2 batches of bread/muffins on Friday, threw another 3-4 cups of shredded zuch in the freezer for later - might make more this w/e while I have the oven going for buckle. Made stuffed peppers last night, but with grocery store peppers. We had some of my dad's green beans too. Kids don't eat them, so we won't plant them. It's been a bad year up here - haven't checked farmer's markets (usually more $$, at least in the 2 affluent towns near us - I'll have to check more modest town on Friday). But grocery stores haven't even had very good prices. Corn just now getting knee high (a month late!), and *some* people have started 2nd cutting of hay, but not us (we just did 1st cutting 4th of July, other people were even later). Too much rain, no sun for all of June.

I mentioned this stamp awhile back (I searched back 15 pages and couldn't find the thread). It's amazing, isn't it?

Sheila - The recipe I used is linked in my original post. The only change I made after the beta test version is that I strained the fresh raspberries before combining with the seedless jam. I found the seeds detracted from the smooth decadence of the torte. I do not bake often, but did not find the torte to be difficult.

If I’m sick, I want Campbell’s tomato soup, Nabisco saltine crackers, and a real Coke. Other than that, if I’m needing comfort almost anything creamy will do. 🙋🏻‍♀️ Another La Madeleine lover here! When I can calorically afford it, my favorite lunch is a chicken salad croissant with Strawberries Romanov for dessert. Ten or more years ago, they had a wonderful breakfast/brunch dish that was like potatoes au gratin with ham in it. It also had a large clove of garlic baked in the middle. I always just ate around the garlic. I took DD and a couple of her sorority sisters there for breakfast before they hit the road back to school. One of the girls ate the garlic in her dish. What a surprise!