leftover Mirai corn pizza


Pepper Jack cheese, grilled Mirai corn roasted Poblano peppers, little bit of mozz.
sprinkling of smoked paprika and cayenne pepper.

more round things photographed at a low angle...

Peach and blueberry tart.

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM I love Mirai corn

Peaches for freezer jam

Oh, the spirit of Paula Deen was smiling on me this week. On Sunday, I took a trip out to Golden Geurnsey Dairy http://www.iloverawmilk.com/default.html out in Glen Ellyn with a friend so she could pick up some raw milk to make cheese. It had been decades since I'd had really fresh from the farm milk (my parents relatives were all dairy farmers so as I child, I'd had my share of it straight from the pail). Oh my goodness, how a person can forget just how GOOD fresh milk tastes.

The family couldn't be nicer and we got to meet Rick and a couple of his kids and they told us about the cows and their small operation.

The milk was a bargain (about $1/pint). I came home with five which was enough to drink this week, plus enough to make my own buttermilk for a killer chocolate cake and, of course, my own butter.

Some of the yellowest, yummiest sweet butter I've had in an age.

YUM.

Nichols Farm potatoes

My first Melrose Peppers of the season roasted in a cast iron skillet. Some were marinated in barolo vinegar and EVOO and some were mixed w/ sauteed onion on a saaaasage (Mark Malnati said to say it this way via Throwdown on FN yesterday) sandwich. Nice.



Jeff

Peanut butter mousse/chocolate mousse cake with chocolate graham/peanut crust.

Thought this was a big hit at the party I went to yesterday, it was too sweet for my personal taste. I think if I made it again, I'd replace the cookie crust with a chocolate (or possibly almond) sponge/biscuit and perhaps spoon the mousses (meeses?) into shot glasses, so that even though it's very sweet, you wouldn't consume as MUCH after an already enormous dinner.

But it looked pretty.

I also made more jam on Saturday with peaches from the Oak Park farmers market.

Farewell old friend:



Hello new friend:

7.31.10

Chocolate birthday cake for a friend this weekend. Tasty, but not a great photo, since it was with the phone.

Pancetta, Melted Leek, garlic, and goat cheese pizza @ La Madia

(iphone pic, sorry)

that's a great pic

thanks

nice sunlight today and got some new medium bowls at C&B
(replacing my son's nemo/thomas the tank engine bowls...)


this set was a large cutting board below and a smaller thinner one on angle behind softening the sunlight the seam gets blown out by the +1 2/3 exposure over-ride on my point and shoot camera.

figs with goat cheese, honey and yogurt and a fresh herb sprinkle

Pyramid Pointe from Evergreen Lane Farm & Creamery in Fennville, MI

bacon wrapped shrimp with peach

Dave Zier's pig a roasting

Dave breaking down this luscious piggy

Made up a batch of black-n-blueberry merlot sorbet last weekend.

Yet another birthday this weekend...another chocolate cake, (this one gluten-free) by request.

Chocolate rum swiss roll with strawberry vanilla buttercream.

Huitlacoche from Henry's Farm/Evanston Farmers' Market this morning:

Wedges!

A couple of things I have made lately:

Mediterranean Focaccia:





Shredded pork sopes:

mhill95149 wrote:

Beautiful as always mhill. Grilled bread is one of my favorites!

A peach tree grows in Brooklyn.



Setting up the ice cream maker today...

Paul -- Awesome! My neighbor has a peach tree that usually fruits like that, but not this year, unfortunately.

mhill -- How did you like the Evergreen Lane Pyramid Pointe cheese? I have a friend who swears by their La Mancha Moon cheese.

aschie30 wrote:mhill -- How did you like the Evergreen Lane Pyramid Pointe cheese? I have a friend who swears by their La Mancha Moon cheese.

Loved the cheese!
and so did my wife so it's now on the find it/buy it list....

mhill95149 wrote:

aschie30 wrote:mhill -- How did you like the Evergreen Lane Pyramid Pointe cheese? I have a friend who swears by their La Mancha Moon cheese.

Loved the cheese!
and so did my wife so it's now on the find it/buy it list....

Glad to hear! Here's a link to their website. If you're ever up in the Fennville area, a place called Summertime Market in Douglas sells it retail. Or you can arrange a trade-off with me, as I'm up there every two weeks or so.

Though I haven't been, I recommended Bo Innovation in Hong Kong to a friend based on what I read here on LTH. She sent me a photo of one of her courses, Sex on the Beach--brandy mousse, graham cracker, edible condom with condensed milk. Money from sales of this dish go to benefit an HIV/AIDS organization, hence the small chocolate (?) with red ribbon.