Supper

[Sneakeater]

(I certainly sub Vermouth Blanc for dry.)

[small h]

Right, it doesn't look that difficult, but I have no creme fraiche nor shallots, and I was feeling pretty lazy yesterday.

[MitchW]

Caprese salad (beefsteak and heirloom tomatoes).  Roasted chicken thigh. Sautéed Lani's Farm squash with Jersey white corn off the cob.

[splinky]

22 hours ago, MitchW said:

Roasted five ears of real Jersey white corn, procured earlier in the day at the greenmarket. I'd never done this in the countertop oven; came out great.

Buttered, served with a Greek salad, with greenmarket tomatoes, lettuce, cukes. Olives are hiding under it all.

Sometimes this is all we need in the heat (I did eat two ears of corn).

the corn has been so good lately

[Sneakeater]

Climate change giveth and climate change taketh away.

[Sneakeater]

This is the first year I can remember where the corn was great from week one.

[MitchW]

Roasted mushrooms and cousa squash.

Amatriciana Estiva,  a more summery, lighter version of the classic bucatini all'Amatriciana.  Main difference is the use of fresh tomatoes (cherry, or as in this case, Lancaster Farms' organic garden gem tomatoes), and (hide your eyes, @Sneakeater) draining off a bit of the rendered fat from the guanciale.  The pasta used is Setaro's Mezze Rigatoni.

[Sneakeater]

That pasta looks great.

Still don’t see why you’d drain off the fat though. 

[MitchW]

38 minutes ago, Sneakeater said:

That pasta looks great.

Still don’t see why you’d drain off the fat though. 

I'm hoping to keep my dosage of Crestor at 5mg/daily.

[MitchW]

A not beautiful looking, yet delicious tasting (Ugly Delicious?), Pa amb tomàquet.

Paella.

Con socarrat!

 

[StephanieL]

RG Borlotti Lamon beans in a homemade tomato & pepper sauce over polenta. The recipe calls for sauteeing 2 oz. of prosciutto along with parsley until brown, about 10 minutes, before adding it to the cooked beans. Doing this to prosciutto makes the dish taste very porky IMO.

[Wilfrid]

Two slabs of scrapple, duck egg over easy, dandelion leaves followed by cheese and I am full.

 

[maison rustique]

14 hours ago, StephanieL said:

RG Borlotti Lamon beans in a homemade tomato & pepper sauce over polenta. The recipe calls for sauteeing 2 oz. of prosciutto along with parsley until brown, about 10 minutes, before adding it to the cooked beans. Doing this to prosciutto makes the dish taste very porky IMO.

Thanks for the prosciutto tip!

[maison rustique]

A friend dropped off some wonderful chili lime chicken skewers while I was visiting my husband. I popped them into the oven for a quick roast before it got too hot. Froze some for later and ate some tonight with arugula, sliced tomato, avocado lime dressing and buttered baguette.

 

And as long as I had the oven on, put in the shriveling cherry tomatoes I had and a huge green pepper to roast for freezing to use in whatever.

 

[MitchW]

These short, tubular pastas are becoming a favorite lately:

Mezzi Rigatoni with sausage and broccoli.  Roasted corn (an Italian classic) on the side.

[Wilfrid]

I just invented the scrapple taco, fame awaits.

 

[small h]

I have been patiently growing tomatoes and cucumbers and peppers for approximately 1000 years now, waiting for the day when I reach critical gazpacho mass. That day has come. Seen here adjacent to shrimp & egg salad with balcony tarragon. This is a pretty damn good hot weather dinner.

 

[MitchW]

Summer continues...

With another caprese salad, with dashes of balsamico.  Baguette alongside.

[MitchW]

Pork scallopini (or piccata, whichever you prefer; there are 3 or 4 thin slices of pork under the lemon, butter, white wine, capers, and garlic sauce).  Roasted baby potatoes and cabbage wedges.  A pretty tasty, quick and easy dinner.

[maison rustique]

Made up a soup with some of the chicken from the skewers I roasted the other day. Used a packaged cilantro lime rice, some chopped tomato, chicken stock and a dollop of jalapeno something from Trader Joe's that's been lurking in the fridge for a long time.

 

I have to admit that I am really getting hungry for "real" food, i.e., meat to eat with a knife/fork, veggies and a nice glass of wine. My dear friend who always beings me food texted me yesterday and asked me what I'd like to cheer me up and he'd make it for me. I politely declined. I was afraid it would be chicken drumsticks. LOL.

 

[StephanieL]

Chicken tarragon hand pies bought at a local farmer's market ages ago, with a side of sauteed green beans, tomatoes, and peppers from our garden.

[Wilfrid]

Far from fancy. Tuna mayonnaise with spice, crayfish tails, toast points. Quick, easy and cold (apart from the toast).

[StephanieL]

Our garden yielded a zucchini large enough to stuff, so N made a ground lamb and pine nut filling, put some of it into the zucchini and baked it, and cooked down the rest to serve on the side.  She also made hummus with RG chickpeas as a side, with lavash for dipping (bought locally).  Pistachio baklava for dessert.

Edited August 18 by StephanieL

[bloviatrix]

I made a big pot of Smoked Whitefish Chowder. It made me very happy.

[Diancecht]

 salmon and ikura rice (japanese rice cooked with konbu and salmon, topped with ikura and scallions); miso shiru with tokyo turnips and turnip greens; tomato no nimono (peeled early girl tomatoes simmered in dashi, shoyu, and hon mirin, then chilled); cucumber and wakame seaweed salad with sesame vinaigrette; turnip asazuke (quick pickled turnips with konbu, salt and sugar). and for dessert, peaches and blueberries with a little lemon juice and a pinch of splenda.