7/30/15

Tofu, that I dredged in flour + cornstarch and pan-fried. served with rice, plus a thai-style curry that  made with red curry paste, coconut milk, onion, garlic, ginger and zucchini.

7/29/15

Dinner with Jen and Gus. Corn and green chile & chicken macaroni and cheese. I know I have made it twice before, but I love it so. Turns out that green chile and cheese are two of my trigger ingredients. I wonder how it would be in an enchilada form?

Gus buys the ice cream

7/28/15

Another night of SULA: hot dogs and sauerkraut for Jason, grilled cheese for Carter. I made a pasta with beet greens, garlic, red pepper and anchovies:

I ate this in the car (again), which would have been OK except that the pasta could have used some salt and I didn't have any. Still, using up those beet greens made me feel virtuous.

7/27/15

Dinner with Jennie and David. We brought bread, another blueberry pie, and some aloo tikki w/ mint and tamarind chutneys (from "Indian for Everyone"). I have had better luck with the chutneys from Saveur. The fritters were nice; I think if I make them again I would dredge them in chick pea flour before frying.

Here is a picture to annoy Jason:

Rainbow over cohousing

7/26/15

Chicken fried chicken (which I never deigned to eat when I lived in Texas) with mashed potatoes, cream gravy and a salad. I thought the chicken turned out really well, and I will repeat that technique, but the gravy was too thick, and I did not like the addition of garlic. I also over-salted it, but I can't blame Serious Eats for that. The potatoes were a vehicle for gravy and the salad was largely ignored.

7/25/15

No cooking at all. We were invited to Guy's house for dinner and brought only a bottle of prosecco. That felt weird. What a dinner, though: cheese and crackers, corn, cucumber/dill salad (right from the garden), grilled chicken, ribs, homemade bread and a fruit crisp for dessert. I am definitely intrigued by the idea of making ribs. These had a sour cherry glaze and were really delicious. I will bookmark that idea...

7/24/15

Dinner with my parents---a really good chicken/chickpea curry, roasted cauliflower and my first corn of the season! We brought a blueberry pie.

I wish I had gotten a picture of Jason licking his plate...The recipe is the same as the one for strawberry pie; coincidentally it was in the Genius Recipe cookbook I was flipping through, so I more-or-less used their proportions, although I used more of everything. I didn't bother with their overly complicated crust instructions.