A top-flight Ka Prao made with ground lamb, home-grown basil/Thai chiles. On the side: a blistering Thai squid salad, incorporating freshly pickled cucumbers and red jalapenos, lemon grass, and lime leaf, with more of that basil, plus home-grown mint and my first garden tomatoes of the summer. The Ka Prao incorporated kecap manis along with the nam pla, and the sweet and salty combo of flavors balanced perfectly. Top that, Achatz!

zoid wrote:Salmon and scrambled eggs are just too good to be that easy.
It has to be one of the best payoff to effort ratios there is.
The dill cheese sounds like a fantastic addition.

You nailed it, zoid. We had about 3/4 lb of salmon leftover and a few roasted potatoes. I flaked the salmon, cubed the potatoes, and gave both a quick swim in about 3 tbs of butter. After that I tossed in 6 eggs. Once they started getting just the slightest bit hard, I threw in thin slices of some great, fresh dill cheese that we picked up at the Mt. Prospect farmer's market this past Sunday. I stirred it all together and waited until the eggs were slightly still wet and pulled the skillet off the burner. Heavenly!! Like you said, the taste payoff to effort is off the charts. The greatest use of leftover salmon I can think of.

grilled some veggies from the garden for dinner
(plus, some melrose peppers YUM!!)

After reading this, I know I'm having scrambled eggs with some of that cheese. Too bad there's no more salmon.

Quick, easy & yummy dinner! Trader Joe's falafel, their delicious hummus dressing (tried the sample & had to get it) in a multi-grain pita. Served with farmer's market tomatoes, cucumbers and radishes and broccoli slaw.

Seamus is trucking on over to Retro Bistro to pick up our to go order. (So lucky it's so close!!) I went with their kobe beef burger & frittes. Great way to kick off the weekend!

Grilled scallops, grits with Laughing Cow queso fresco & chipoltle cheese and patty pan squash sautéed w/ garlic & chili oil

Too wimpy to stand in the rain, I used my grill pan to grill up zucchini, red pepper and eggplant. I then took out the pork chops that had marinated in Walkerswood spicy jerk marinade and grilled them up. Wow, was that all good!

Spicy Italian wine & formogio chicken sausage, sweet potato fries, mushrooms & cauliflower (olive oil, salt pepper & chili oil) . Sausage & sweet potato fries were store bought, so I really only get credit for the cauliflower. But, Seamus called it "the surprise hit of the night", so I got that going for me.

This is the best thing I've had to eat in a long time. My girlfriend and I were trying to think of the best way to get the word out because we couldn't find any similar recipes online. Choose your favorite pastry crust recipe.

1 all butter pastry crust
3 medium ripe tomatoes, coarsely diced
3 peaches, coarsely diced
1 cup yellow heirloom, lightbulb shaped tomatoes, halved (or some combination of ripe, delicious tomatoes)
1/2 shallot, minced finely
1 T fresh thyme leaves
2-3 T good balsamic vinegar
1/4 c crumbled blue cheese
1 1/2 T flour

This was for an 8 1/2" pie pan, scale appropriately for larger or smaller sizes.

Peel and dice peaches, dice tomatoes. Add shallot, thyme leaves & balsamic to a bowl, and whisk. Add peaches & tomatoes, and stir gently to combine. Crumble in the blue cheese and pour into the pie crust. Bake at 400oF for 35 minutes, or until the crust is brown and the filling is bubbly. Allow to cool & set before serving.

Holy Ned that looks good!

Caprese salad and a layered vegetable casserole, which is more-or-less ratatouille-ish (onion, thyme, garlic, eggplant, zucchini, red peppers, tomatoes) and blueberry pie for dessert

Everything is from the farmer's market or my garden except for the pie crust ingredients

And a rosé wine from Spain that is not from either of those places ; )

Garden tomatoes with garbanzo beans over bow-tie pasta
flavored with onion (homegrown) and cumin & hot pepper flakes
finished with more tomatoes and more garbanzos and some spinach

3 Bean Salad w/ Brown Rice, cucumbers and homegrown tomatoes from a friend's garden:


Brown Rice 3 Bean Salad by MsLynnB, on Flickr

Carnitas on corn tortilla, mixed greens with herbs, avocado & Chihuahua cheese. Served with bi color corn on the con coated w/ butter, chili oil, cilantro, garlic & salt.

salt roasted new potatoes from Nichols farm

Plus, a brasied chuck pot roast for no other reason than I was in the mood for some braised meat...

Leftover red lentil curry with coconut milk, freshly made eggplant and mustard seed and tomato curry from a British-Indian friend's recipe, and brown rice. Soon, I hope - I'm getting hungry!

Goat and fabulous farmer's market okra in a spicy, tart tomato sauce.

Braised the goat for about three hours before putting whole okra in. I used red chile flakes and a blend of baharat and high quality curry powder to flavor the stew.

Grilled flank steak marinated in chipotle, honey, & garlic per Sunday's NYTimes.

From 2 nights ago...my uncle gifted me some of his homegrown brandywine tomatoes. They were the best tomatoes I've tasted in a long while...

been looking forward to tonights supper since I gathered the ingredients Sunday.

Pan seared Italian Sausage links, sauteed onions, green peppers, and mushrooms. Lightly sauced with Marinara. Served on squishy white bread with mozz cheese and giardinara.

loved this as a kid.

Roast chicken (on it's way to being part of bread salad a la Zuni cafe)

California Roll Salad:
Romaine and Butter lettuce
Cucumber
Shredded carrot
Slow-roasted tomatoes slivered
Pickled Ginger
Pickled Shiitakes (David Chang's Momofuku recipe)
Avocado, sliced thin
Krab Sticks cut into 1.5" pieces
Garnish with tobiko, panko

Dressing: 1/4C Kewpie mayo, 3 Tbs pickling liquid from the shiitakes (soy with ginger and sugar, mainly), 2 Tbs rice vinegar, 3/4 tsp wasabi powder, 1 tsp sesame oil, 2 tsp sriracha, about a tsp chile/yuzu paste all whisked together

Hi,

Found a collection of take-out containers of hot-, BBQ- and shrimp-sauce in the refrigerator. Made Sloppy Joes using pork instead of beef and all those sauces. The family really like it, even hinted I could do this again. FAt chance I will have that collection of oddities available.

Regards,

Dinner last night was all about trying to use up veggies from the garden and this dish was fantastic!

Eggplant parmesan napoleons: Phyllo dough, fresh tomato sauce, grilled Ichiban eggplant slices, parmesan, phyllo dough, fresh tomato sauce, panko crusted fried Rosa Marina eggplant slice, burrata, basil leaf, phyllo dough...

fun to make, fun to eat, the best of the end of summer!

rack of lamb crusted with macadamia nuts for dinner. Just had an appetizer of clams with chorizo, yum!

Using some beautiful Swiss chard from the MCA farmers market, I made pasta with Swiss chard, goat cheese and onions last night. It was a lovely dish, and probably would have been better if our smoke detectors hadn't gone off with a few minutes left on the clock for the pasta. (The last few times I made pasta, the smoke detector system has gone off. I refuse to make pasta again until we figure out a fix.) I ended up dumping out all the pasta water trying to stop the offending steam. I needed some of that water for the "sauce." Still a good dish.

last nite was beef stew

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Two slices of home made olive bread with cream cheese. An apple.

I had a polish and fries from Portillos for lunch so have to cut back.

The GP wrote: (The last few times I made pasta, the smoke detector system has gone off. I refuse to make pasta again until we figure out a fix.) .

How close is the detector to the kitchen? Generally it should be mounted at least three feet away from any doorway in a kitchen, and if it's in the kitchen itself that's an improper place to have it.