What did you cook today?

Tortellini with mushrooms and tomato vodka sauce!

 

Cheese on toast just now and it was great.

 

There are actually quite a few of those out. When the natural health craze hit, so did the books.

 

lol No spare bedroom but there's a spacious shed in the yard beside the orchard as long as you don't mind sharing with the spiders. :-D

 

Last night did BBQ chicken breasts. Marinated them in lemon juice, honey mustard, cumin, coriander, garlic, fennel seeds and basil for the whole day. Made linguine with heavy cream, parm, lemon, garlic and dill. Asparagus and a heirloom tomato salad with cucumber, celery, red onion and dill dressed with white balsamic and lemon olive oil.



Tonight we has BBQ burgers and the fixings. I did oven tater wedges with herbs and a salad.

 

Did beef kabobs on the BBQ and had them with Jasmine rice and salad.

 

I just tried making grits for breakfast for the first time. I have been getting really into southern cuisine this summer and thought I would do a trial run before attempting shrimp n grits for dinner later this week.

It was bad, really bad. They were good when i did a taste test right before serving but by the time I sat down with them they were dry and lumpy.

 

Nothing.
Too hot to cook and/or eat.

I bought eggs and tomatoes this morning at the market.
Cantaloupe and blueberries too.

I can't eat much when it's this hot.

 

Not really cooking, but it's been too hot! Picnic at the lake. Lox with celery and cream cheese and vanilla ice cream from a local dairy, with fruit.

 

I've been in the kitchen for 2 and a half hours, I decided to simultaneously make a batch of salsa for the week and eggplant parmagiana which takes forfucking ever

The fruits of my labor should be pretty tasty though.

 

Stewed Cabbage with Smoked Sausage, and Roasted Beets.

 

You have to add them to the boiling water very gradually to prevent the lumps.

 

Striploin steak with sautéed tarragon mushrooms, baked sweet potato with a dollop of Greek yogurt, and a green salad.

 

Vegetarian Enchiladas. They were fucking delicious. I never cease to amaze myself in the kitchen. I always worry that something won't turn out, and then it ends up better than expected.

I also froze a bunch of the mixture to take camping with us, and I have enough leftover mixture to serve the same dish to our friends for supper tomorrow night.

 

I have a loaf of banana oatmeal bread with peach chunks in it in the oven right now! I have finally got a few days off now before the crazy summer rush starts next week so I decided to bake something.

 

I cooked up a mother fucking attitude, apparently.

 

Minced nettles on toast. I added lots of butter. It was quite satisfying and felt good I was getting something for nothing.

 

Beef stew in the crockpot. The aroma is killing me.