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Aug 5, 2015 – One of those days that I just didn’t pick up the camera until it was too late in the day to be creative.

I had planned to do some motorcycle riding this week, and be outside a lot more than I have been on this week off work. The weather didn’t cooperate, but I don’t begrudge it; we need the cool weather and the rain. Instead I’ve turned my attention to inside and been enjoying doing some baking, some organizing, some tidying, and a bit of reading.

During a foray into the pantry a small jar of homemade BBQ sauce inspired me for dinner. That little jar, combined with a package of thawed chicken breasts in the fridge, initiated a batch of dough and a dash to the market for a red onion, some cilantro, some smoked cheddar, and a chunk of fresh mozzarella. Mmmmm, crispy dough, smoky cheddar, sweet red onion, spicy BBQ sauce, gooey cheese, tender chicken. Yes, that was delicious.

And for dessert?

All those berries at the produce market have been going into jars lately, it was time to switch it up with a free-form tart. Mostly blueberries, but there were a few raspberries and strawberries hanging about, so in they went too. The zest of a lemon to give it some zip, and fold and tuck a rustic crust around it all. Brush with egg, sprinkle with sugar, and into the oven to let all that sweet goodness meld together into a sticky something out of this world dessert.

Even though I didn’t look around with an eye for a photo at all today, I was busy doing other yummy things. Today was taken up with reading cookbooks, making pastry dough, making a big batch of pizza dough to divide and freeze for later, doing the same for some bake-later blueberry lemon scones, and adding some shelves and reorganizing in the pantry (Someday it will be a custom build in there, but for now…. making the best of standard shelving).

So in the end a shot of a home baked BBQ chicken pizza was about all that I could muster with the camera (the galette photo just didn’t turn out when I went back to look at it). Even though the photos are nothing special, the tangible results were delicious!