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What a beautiful painting. Somehow, knowing that the scene was adjacent to a busy highway and abandoned store highlights that beauty can be found in many places if you look for it. I also like the fact that you used sugar packets from Dunks to sweeten your jam!

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Thanks, Amy! I like your positive outlook.

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What a delicious-looking recipe, and since blackberries are one of my favorites, I have an idea to crush fresh blackberries into the yogurt for the marinade. It will be on my dinner table this weekend.

Love your post and your painting!

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Thanks so much, Sally! Let me know how the addition of blackberries works out. I like the idea!

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4 packets of sugar from Dunkin’s. Who needs measuring spoons? And yes, I am definitely making this.

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My son thought the mention of the sugar packets was tacky, but I thought it was resourceful!

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Funny, I wrote about those dystopian skies too. You found the beauty in them and the bonus of wild blackberries. You wrote a very heart satisfying post.

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Thanks, Bernadette. The haze was disturbing!

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Cannot WAIT to try this recipe. Everything's already on hand as it happens. Have been itching to up my Indian food game, which currently resides at 0. XO

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The marinade is what makes it. Enjoy, Jan.

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The scene along Route 31 does look bucolic in your painting, Vicki--no sense that traffic is droning anywhere nearby or smoke from Canadian wildfires is blocking the sun.

I do love the idea of picking a few wild blackberries to make breakfast jam, and I’ve got to try that tandoori chicken when we get home from our travels. I always thought you had to have a special tandoori oven, but the broiler version sounds delicious!

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Thanks, Ruth. You're much more sophisticated than I am, I had to look up a "tandoori oven"!

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Not really, Vicki! There’s a lot of Indian food in our neighborhood, so we’ve ordered a lot of tandoori chicken, but I’ve never tried to make it. So now I will!🍗🤗

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Where in upstate?!

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Near Ballston Spa. I grew up not far from there.

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Me too!!

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I thought that you had mentioned upstate NY on your Substack.

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