Bruce’s Birthday Dinner

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Dinner Party Menu from June 29, 2025

Appetizers

Charred Shishito Peppers from the Garden

Salad

Greek Tomato, Cucumber, and Pepper Salad from the Garden

Dinner

Boilded Corn

Roasted Potatoes

Grilled Porterhouse Steak with Lemon Pepper Butter

Dessert   

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11 thoughts on “Bruce’s Birthday Dinner”

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    1. Bruce said to tell you thank you!

      We’re getting lots of great tomatoes! We have a medium bowl full of cherry tomatoes in the kitchen right now and about six large tomatoes. I used three large tomatoes to make salsa last night. Everything was from our garden except for the salt, pepper, and lemon.

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  3. The tomatoes look delicious! Growing up on a farm benefitted your retirement years. By the way, we were not a complete working farm as my parents owned a business and other things but we boarded horses, we had chickens, a bull who got loose regularly and we had a vegetable garden and some chickens and goats running around in the mountains of NY. We have been thinking of a small vegetable garden in containers in our side yard.

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    1. It did! We grew a huge garden when I was growing up. 1 to 5 acres of vegetables. I hated the long rows of okra. I’d be so itchy after picking it.

      I love our raised beds. They are working really well for me.

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      2. The garden fed my grandmother, two aunts, my parents, me, and my sisters. It also fed three other aunts who didn’t live with us. They’d come to help with planting and harvesting. Dad let them take what they wanted. Anything that we didn’t put away, we sold at the farmers’ market. Mom put me in charge of sales when I was about 6 or 7. She told me what the price per pound was and I didn’t know you were supposed to haggle. I always insisted on full price!

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I am a retired software solutions architect. I have been married to my husband, Bruce, for over forty years. We have a 12-pound dog, Nox, who we love dearly. She has been with us since 2009. We went full-time RVing for 3.5 years and saw much of the United States. We bought a ranch house on a hill in the middle of five acres. We are working on creating our homestead. I love cooking and enjoy sharing recipes. I am also an artist and I’ll share my current projects. Reading is my favorite hobby.