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He’s just rubbing the fact that Hal will never fire him in our faces at this point.

That looks a lot like a Trenton-style tomato pie to me. I thought a Philadelphia tomato pie was more like a sfincione, but I’m not 100% certain.

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Limonene @limonene.bsky.social · 15h

My research didn’t really prepare me for how big a $15 blueberry bush could be or how 3 would fit in the car, especially when one of my less salubrious traits is choosing the largest, most vigorous-looking whatever when they’re all the same price (I am a downright menace on a Christmas-tree lot).

Rows and rows of potted blueberry bushes in front of a barn. The sky is blue with puffy white clouds and a sprinkler is running. The bushes closest to the camera are about 5 feet tall, and the further ones are around 3 feet tall.

2 more blocks of potted blueberry bushes, some that are 3-4 feet tall and others that are over 5 feet tall. At the far right, there are potted blackberries and a dolphin statue

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Limonene @limonene.bsky.social · 23h

I would actively seek out the cheddar scalloped potato ones; unfortunately, having worked with concentrated turkey flavor has ruined all turkey for me (not because there’s anything objectionable in it, but because I can’t un-smell the sulfur notes—passion fruit was similarly ruined).

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Limonene @limonene.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It’s been so long since I’ve been in this part of South Jersey that I had almost forgotten how pretty the Pine Barrens can be.

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Limonene @limonene.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

He offers Duke, Bluecrop, and Elliott, which all should be just fine! However, I am guessing that I don’t necessarily want irrefutable proof of what political beliefs a South Jersey landowner who calls himself “Blueberry Bill” holds, which is a danger of going to Hammonton in person.

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Limonene @limonene.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I’m trying to pick out blueberry bushes before it’s too late to get them in the ground and there sure are a lot? My first thought was to get older varieties like Rubel that are more like native bushes, but I am also tempted to throw up my hands and get the 3 kinds a guy named “Blueberry Bill” sells.

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Limonene @limonene.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

You can’t go wrong with cream cheese frosting, but chocolate ganache frosting comes in at a close second for me.

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Limonene @limonene.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I am really enjoying the new Bundt pan I treated myself to!

A golden brown Bundt cake in the form of a laurel wreath. The vanilla cake really shows off the leaves.

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Eric Stephen @ericstephen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

mound visit but no hook for crochet

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KD Casey — Read Breakout Year Today! @kdcaseywrites.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

the only thing that can stop men from Massachusetts (the red sox) are other, more spiteful men from Massachusetts (rice, schlittler)

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Limonene @limonene.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Anecdotally, the combination of Sudafed/naproxen/coffee I take for weather headaches also helps my joints, but a heating pad also really helps. My arthritis is autoimmune, though.

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Limonene @limonene.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

As someone who is trying to dodge a family history of hearing loss, I love the ear protection on the lads!

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Limonene @limonene.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

While my expansive “try a new recipe every month in 2026” resolution has been great fun, I think 2027 might have to be The Year of “No.”

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Limonene @limonene.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The reservoir is also plastic (but doesn’t get hot) and it’s not programmable either, but grad school taught me that I cannot be trusted with a whole pot of coffee at a time, and there aren’t a lot of non-Keurig single-serve coffeemakers out there.

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Limonene @limonene.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’ve seen people modding their Moccamasters to remove plastic from the pathway of the hot water, but that’s not really an economical solution either (I splurged on a Cup One, but haven’t gotten around to changing out the brew basket).

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Limonene @limonene.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

That sounds delicious! Now I wish I bought the freeze-dried strawberries that Costco had on sale last week! I do have some spray-dried cherry juice powder; maybe I’ll experiment with that.

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Limonene @limonene.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Both salsas are delicious, and are making me feel a little better about not having canned anything so far this year. The salsa verde is tangy enough for me without any lime juice, so a safe canning recipe for my tomatillos would probably be unbearably sour (I will freeze what I can’t eat, instead).

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Limonene @limonene.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

For my September new-recipe resolution, I tried two salsas, using homegrown tomatillos, tomatoes, and jalapeños: Salsa Verde con Jalapeño y Comino from Pati Jinich’s new book La Frontera, and @smittenkitchen.bsky.social 3-ingredient salsa (I did add onion to both recipes).

Green and smaller green-and-purple tomatillos, garlic cloves, 2 stemmed and halved jalapeño peppers and half an onion arrayed on a baking sheet for broiling

Halved plum tomatoes, 2 onion quarters, 2 stemmed and halved jalapeños (one red and ripe, one green) and garlic cloves on a baking sheet.

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Limonene @limonene.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“Well, I asked the AI and it told me what I want to do is just fine!” feels pretty lousy as a response to a reasoned explanation of why something is not a great idea, actually.

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Limonene @limonene.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

That’s really lovely, and it’s such a good feeling to win at yarn chicken.

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Limonene @limonene.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

One of my pumpkin vines just put out 2 baby pumpkins and the squirrels took a big chomp out of both of them! Otherwise, I have 3 pumpkins total on one of my 4 plants and 0 pumpkins on the other 3.

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Limonene @limonene.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I might get some ripe Habanada peppers before the first frost, after all! I’m glad that plant and the jalapeño are thriving because my 2 poblanos did absolutely nothing this year.

A closeup of a slightly pointy light yellow green pepper beginning to blush orange. This plant is so loaded with peppers that I had to lean it on a wire rack to keep it from falling over.

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Limonene @limonene.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This feels like when I learned that the Outerbridge Crossing (the southernmost bridge between NJ and Staten Island) was named for Eugenius Harvey Outerbridge, the first Port Authority chairman.

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Limonene @limonene.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I was! That particular meal was a splurge while I was up visiting during grad school, though.

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Limonene @limonene.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This was years and years ago and the place is long gone, but Craigie on Main (it was in the space that used to be the even-longer-gone La Groceria) when we were undergrads.

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Limonene @limonene.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

(Granted, gardening in NJ is easy mode for tomatoes, but with some strategic variety selection, I start my tomato seeds outside after the last frost in May and am eating tomatoes by early August at the latest. If I bothered with indoor seed starting, I’d be looking at July.)

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Limonene @limonene.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

As a Jersey girl, seeing “we don’t serve fresh tomatoes until September” on a restaurant menu in Cambridge had me doing a serious double take.

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Limonene @limonene.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It has been so wonderful to see the book and miniseries through your eyes! I had never picked up on Darcy’s wardrobe getting darker and lighter in all my viewings.

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Limonene @limonene.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

(And I know what I do is nothing compared to people who are really serious about food preservation and gardening. I mostly got into it for the healthful exercise and snacks.)

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Limonene @limonene.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I know that in the fall and into winter, I will be very happy and grateful for the refrigerator pickles, and frozen tomato products cooked summer squash and beans and figs, and whatever I get around to properly canning. Right now, the gardening and food preservation feel like a second full-time job.

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Limonene @limonene.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

That would be delicious, too!

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Limonene @limonene.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I caught myself measuring whole beans into the brew basket yesterday morning, so I get this.

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Limonene @limonene.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

If you’re looking to buy, I recommend the Bottled in Bond Apple Brandy over the Applejack (by law, the latter has to be lower proof and cut with a neutral spirit). Both drink more like a whiskey than a calvados.

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Limonene @limonene.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

If you have applejack or other apple brandy on hand, it’s really nice in place of the vodka in a Moscow Mule (I call it a Monmouth Mule because Laird’s was originally made in Monmouth County, but it likely has a different official name).

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Limonene @limonene.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I love an Americano—it’s like a low-octane, highball version of a Negroni (equal parts Campari and sweet vermouth, topped with soda water).

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Limonene @limonene.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Peeling 2 pounds of homegrown plum tomatoes by hand like the recipe in the cookbook calls for is not even the tiniest bit fun (a serrated peeler helps), but the end result is summery magic. The larger Polish Linguisa tomatoes were superior to the Opalka for this because they’re less fiddly to peel.

A light gray pan full of raw, finely diced tomatoes over diced onions that have been cooked to a very pale gold color. The spoonula in the pan is purple.

The now lightly cooked tomatoes and onions tossed with spaghetti and parm in a mixing bowl with my trusty purple spoonula

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Limonene @limonene.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It also seems to work well enough for my purposes in regular bread doughs, so it’s become the only yeast I keep on hand (I only have so much freezer space to devote to yeast).

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Limonene @limonene.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

In my experience, it really does give a better/faster rise to enriched/sweet doughs so you don’t have to leave doughs with lots of eggs and dairy out on the counter proofing for hours and hours.

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Limonene @limonene.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

(In the absence of other triggers, glutamate doesn’t set me off, but a poorly timed bag of Doritos can completely wreck my day.)

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Limonene @limonene.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I am so annoyed that in deference to the dregs of this migraine, I’ve had to put off making the Marcella Hazan tomato sauce with onion and butter (not THAT one—the other one) that I’ve been looking forward to all season because the Parmigiano Reggiano will absolutely send it rip-roaring back.

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Limonene @limonene.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I’ve been having all these amorphous bad feelings since my employer went all-in on AI, and you just put them into words. I also always knew there’s no expectation of privacy on a company laptop, but the way constant surveillance is now touted as a selling point because of AI is messing me up a bit

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Limonene @limonene.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

If all brassicas are welcome: Choy Division Tina Turnip Lou Rutabaga

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Limonene @limonene.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

He is such a dapper little gentleman!

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Limonene @limonene.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Meta keeps trying to serve me rebel canning content as some kind of ragebait, I think (or maybe because I’ve been looking at various refrigerator pickle recipes around the internet)? I have less than zero interest in watching complete strangers play Russian roulette with their food, though.

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Limonene @limonene.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I hope it goes well and that you have a speedy and easy recovery!

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