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Mustard Seed Café, 562 N. Main St. Bluffton, (567-226-1120) is featuring local summer vegetables in its offerings for August:

●Rolled Skirt Steak stuffed with herbed goat cheese, mushrooms and spinach, served over potato cakes with pan-flashed green beans and drizzled mushroom sherry sauce

●Summer Ratatouille over lemon herb pasta

●Marinated herbed shrimp over lemon sautéed zucchini ribbons, marinated tomatoes, ricotta cheese and basil pesto risotto

●Eggplant Caponata flatbread with fresh goat cheese and fresh basil

●Smoked Salmon BLT

●Chocolate Dipped Watermelon

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Few could answer this question because, I imagine, few have stumbled upon it.

This is found in a trail in the woods southwest of Fraternity Circle. Growth in the woods has been cut away, a path of cut logs to walk on extends just a few paces.

Looking up, one sees a "monument" of wood circles with colorful bottles attached.

There used to be a small brochure there telling about what the passerby has discovered and why the pathway is there, but the pamphlets are long gone.

Look for an opening in the northwest corner of the woods to find this hidden gem.

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Here's the recipe for the first-place pie in this year's Bluffton's Relay for Life pie baking contest held in mid-June.

Marj Rettig’s Chocolate Pecan Pie
1 unbaked 9-inch deep-dish pie pastry
1 ½ cups chopped pecans
1 cup (6 oz.) semisweet chocolate morsels
1 cup dark corn syrup
½ cup granulated sugar
½ cup firmly packed brown sugar
¼ cup water
4 large eggs
¼ cup butter, melted
2 teaspoons cornmeal
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
½ teaspoon table salt

Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.  Place pastry into a 9-inch deep-dish pie plate, folding edges under, and crimp.

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Mustard Seed Café, 562 N. Main St. Bluffton, is back from vacation with some Jumpin’ July Features:

● Ruby Red Trout with Marinated Tomatoes, Fresh Corn and Potato Salad

● Crab over Gnocchi with Roasted Corn, Sugar Snap Peas, Heirloom Cherry Tomatoes in Lemon Ricotta Cream Sauce drizzled with Basil Oil

● Roasted Chicken Breast and Andouille Sausage over house created Corn Bread Shortcakes with Fresh Peach Salsa and Grilled Leeks

● Cobb Flatbread: Avocado Cream, Torn Romaine, Tomato, Bacon, Crumbled Gorgonzola, Hard Boiled Eggs

● Swordfish Tacos with fried cabbage, House Pico de Gallo, and Sour Cream

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Katie Hohenbrink’s Red, White and Blueberry Pie
This pie was second place at the Bluffton Relay for Pie pie-baking contest.

1 prebaked pie crust

Fruit filling:
1 ½ cups sugar
1 ½ cups water
¼ cup plus 1 ½ teaspoons cornstarch
4 Tablespoons plus 1 ½ teaspoons strawberry gelatin
1 pint fresh blueberries
1 teaspoon lemon juice
1 pint fresh strawberries

Cream filling:
½ cup whipping cream
8 oz. cream cheese
1/3 cup sugar
½ teaspoon vanilla

Whipped topping
Star cutouts for garnish

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Annette Stuckey’s Raspberry Buttermilk Pie

Serves 8

1 1/2 cups buttermilk
3/4  cup sugar
1/2  cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted
1/4  cup all-purpose flour
5  large egg yolks
1  teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1/4  teaspoon kosher salt
9-inch basic flaky piecrust, parbaked
1/3  cup raspberry jam
1/4  cup toasted sliced almonds

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