Monday, 7/28/25

 Too hot to cook (even on the porch) so we just had leftover bread, toasted, and a salad. I made the salad all fancy with feta, cherries and beets.

Sunday, 7/27/25

 Sweet and sour eggplant with crispy garlic chips, from the NYT. I didn't have Japanese eggplant but regular old globe worked fine. Super delicious just as written; served over basmati rice. My only thing is that I should have been more careful getting the garlic chips more uniformly thin (they were worth the effort!).

Saturday, 7/26/26

 A recipe from "Weekday Vegetarians get Simple" that looked good as I was flipping through it at work. Can't resist "brown butter orzo with zucchini". This was similar to a SK pasta dish in that it called for cooking shredded zucchini for a while; the brown butter certainly added a lot of delicious flavor. I think I could have even doubled the zucchini, though. It also would have been nice with a little crunch, like toasted panko or nuts. Than Jason and I ate a whole thing of Ben and Jerry's.

Friday, 7/25/25

 We had some leftover skirt steak from dinner at Vespa last week that I had thrown in the freezer; used that and whatever other odds and ends we had laying around (carrots, cucumbers, egg) to make gimbap. We are getting better at rolling them! They could have used something pickled, like daikon, but it was still a pretty quick and good dinner.

Thursday, 7/24/25

 Still going at the rangoons and sausage dumplings from the freezer. The farther away we get from the making of them, the more delicious they are. 

Wednesday, 7/23/25

 I don't know why I wanted deviled eggs for dinner....maybe because eggs are almost a reasonable price again? Anyhow, had that with leftover toasted bread, cheese, and the last of the pickled yellow squash. The oven is off-limits again.

Tuesday, 7/22/25

 I was looking forward to a white bean, fresh mozzarella and roasted red pepper salad for dinner, so it was disappointing that it was somehow less than the sum of its parts. After cooking my own white beans (25 minutes in the Instant Pot is too much! Try 20 next time), roasting my own peppers and getting fresh basil from the farm I was expecting something more delicious. The ever so slightly mushy beans probably didn't help. I added cucumbers and cherry tomatoes for a little more crunch. It still needed doctoring up (chili crisp helped a little). The last of the pita bread to go with it.