The last of the brats was tonight’s dinner. We dearly miss our bounty of brats, but all good things must come to an end.
Pot roast was in the slow cooker while I was at work. Came home to a delicious hot meal, with fresh bread to soak it all up. (Couldn’t be arsed to boil up the usual egg noodle accompaniment. Figured, “Meh. It’s hot. I’m tired. Bread’s good.”)
The broth is just red wine and Worshershersher sauce, so it’s pretty potent. Very tangy … and utterly addictive.
Two little onions went into it, too; they apparently gave up their ghosts into the sauce. There’s no discernable sign left of them. The halved baby potatoes & carrot pieces are identifiable, although utterly stained (and thoroughly seasoned) by the sauce.
Grilled pork chops from our neighbors’ pigs. Served with riced cauliflower sautéed with cilantro, lime, and garlic.
For dessert, peaches from the farm market split and grilled. Until the peach harvest is over I’ll be grilling peaches for dessert most nights.
Dined out last night: a bowl of tomato and roasted garlic soup (’way too subtle with the garlic), a 12-ounce Delmonico steak, broccoli with butter, and fingerling potatoes in a light gravy (all tasty, but none of it hot enough when it reached the table), washed down with a gimlet (not bad) and some ice water. For afters, crème brûlée with a raspberry base (pretty good) and a cup of coffee.
Went to a Mexican BBQ place attached to a brewery south of us this evening. She had a nice brisket sandwich with chile mac and cheese and charra beans as the sides; I had a brisket taco, a pulled pork taco, with elotes and charra beans as the sides. Both meals were quite nice (ok, the charra beans were missing some spices), with an IPA and a saison to drink.
I made a pizza dough ball last night, and it’s fermenting away in the fridge in prep for a pesto pizza this evening.
Ham and cheese omelet, Caesar salad, garlic toast, ice water. Later, home-baked sugar cookies and a glass of milk.
Back on my fish & chips kick with a slight twist. I discovered beer-battered haddock, which is nice not because I can particularly taste the beer, but because it crisps up so nicely when I use a slightly higher oven temp than recommended. The result is a crisp firm batter and tender flaky fish. Also instead of my usual tartar sauce, I’m trying chipotle tartar sauce from that Boston emporium, Legal Sea Foods*.
* Although it’s made and distributed by Stonewall Kitchen. I’m familiar with Stonewall for their excellent but pricey sauces – their roasted apple grille sauce is fantastic with roast pork!
I walk on the wild side and eat at Illegal Sea Foods.
Tonight I grilled salmon and split peaches. Served with leftover pasta salad we made for a last Saturday.
Vodka sours to drink.
I was served a carton of spoiled milk at the Sanitary Fish Market and Restaurant. That should have been illegal.
Tonight was bucatini alla bottarga, focaccia, and Rainier cherries. Red wine to drink.
I had a particularly exhausting day, so I just heated the oven to bake a frozen shepherds pie, plus a mini tube of croissants.
Nibbling on a bit of caviar as an appetizer, cuz I’m bougie like that
Filet Mignon wrapped in bacon and grilled rare (which doesn’t cook the bacon enough). Arugula salad. Grilled peaches for dessert. Vodka sours to drink.
Last night was a summertime favorite, Curried Chicken Salad. Curried dressing, chicken, diced Lodi apples, raisins, clementines, cashews, grapes, served over a bed of romaine.
The grapes were “cotton candy” grapes. My first experience with them. They tasted good. Different. I think you have to have the idea planted in your mind that they taste like cotton candy, otherwise I’d just think they were odd but good tasting grapes.
Lamb Curry!! We’ve been avoiding carbs, so instead of serving it over rice, I made zucchini pancakes in the air fryer. Sounds strange, but it worked. Grilled peaches for dessert.
Thank goodness Tom_Scud found some frozen leftover ghormeh sabzi in the downstairs freezer, because then all he had to do was make rice. We were both too exhausted to do any actual cooking tonight. I do miss spinach, though - we have had to switch to kale because he isn’t supposed to eat spinach. It’s still tasty, but not quite the same.
We lost a zucchini under the leaves, and so it grew a foot and a half long at least before we found it. Tonight I made my go-to dish for monster squash, consisting cutting it in half lengthwise and then crosswise, hollowing out the body, reserving the pulp, cooking some Italian sausage, cooking the shells in boiling water, cooking the pulp with onions and garlic, and then apple juice, then adding mozzarella cheese and a beaten egg. Stuff it into the shells and bake for 15 minutes. Came out the best it has in a while. Served it with rice from the Mexican grocery.
Leftover Indian dal Makhani with basmati rice, and baby cucumbers with yogurt dip.
Italian stir fry. Zucchini, various peppers, onions, turkey sausages, bow tie pasta, good parmesan cheese. Served with a small salad and grilled peaches.
Oooh! I had “champagne grapes” years ago that were tiny, and brain-shatteringly sweet.
I shoved a chicken boob into the oven with a halved onion, some garlic, slices of butter, and sweet chili sauce … and hoped for the best.
Probably should’ve halved the chicken.
Update: I forgot how much fun it is to play in the kitchen. This stuff is bonkers delicious.
I sliced/shredded the meat so it could wallow around in the sauce for a while. Yum.