9/6/15

Summer-y dinner: corn fritters and panzanella with tomatoes, cucumbers, fresh mozzarella and some leftover Jason bread. I still haven't come across the ideal corn fritter recipe; these were too loose and got soggy quickly. I am picturing something more like a hush puppy, maybe? The bread salad was nice, though.

9/5/15

Dinner with Jennie and David. Delicious loaf of bread from Jason, trifle from me. The unloved angel food cake was given new life with strawberries, pastry cream and whipped cream. I had never made a trifle before and now I am contemplating all the variations I could make....

Thanks for the bowl, Mom!

9/4/15

Family relaxation night: nachos and chocolate-peanut butter squares. That is all.

9/3/15

A pasta of my own invention, using up a bunch of ingredients hanging around--italian sausage, shallots and onions, zucchini, a giant yellow tomato and some ricotta cheese. It looked awful (the yellow tomato cooking down and mixing with the ricotta was very unappetizing), but tasted pretty good.

It looked better before the ricotta

We also had bread from a french loaf that Jason is experimenting with and it was very, very good.

9/2/15

A dinner that did not involve frying! Seared tuna steaks with sesame seeds and black pepper, rice, avocado-cucumber salad. A delicious dinner for a hot evening.

9/1/15

Another Genius recipe: black pepper tofu. This was delicious! But kind of a production: dredge tofu cubes in cornstarch and shallow-fry them, make a sauce with shallots, ginger, garlic, two kinds of soy sauce (technically 3, but I didn't have sweet soy so just added a bit of extra sugar), brown sugar and butter. And cracked black pepper, of course. I omitted the chiles, because I forgot to buy them, and played with the proportions of the other ingredients a bit. Served it with spaghetti and broccoli. I love that sort of crunchy-chewy texture, and the sauce was really flavorful. The recipe is here:  http://www.saveur.com/article/Recipes/Plenty-Ottolenghi-Black-Pepper-Tofu

Figures that it is an Ottolenghi recipe, what with all those ingredients.

8/31/15

Panko-crusted chicken (Carter's request), mashed new potatoes, corn, and tomatoes. I made the cream gravy from SE again, omitting the garlic and being more careful with the salt. Much better. The potatoes were just a vehicle for gravy, and the corn and tomatoes were a little mealy. I guess we will go back to our regular farm stand.