Is done – even the Google Doodle is back to World Cup, instead of Americana. We grilled but just for three. Brats, broccoli & potatoes, and I made a farro, herb & cucumber salad, trying to use some of the three pounds of cukes that I got in my CSA box, and the slightly browning […]
I’ve been enjoying the long holiday weekend – I didn’t work at all on the 4th and only a couple of hours each Friday and Saturday and Sunday – tho I am not quite started on Sunday’s hours as yet <grin>. Yesterday I tried out a recipe for a [vegan] roasted tomato sauce. I liked […]
Ah, dinner’s cleaned up – I had to take a 2nd shower – and I have a drink – Scotch rocks, not the Tom Collins I was contemplating, though it is unlike me to prefer whiskey over gin – and I can hear the fireworks we’re being too lazy to go to. So pictures:
Blueberry cornmeal muffins, with red papers. ha. So here’s the plan: Muffins & bananas for breakfast (any minute now). Maybe a bike ride? For dinner: Grilled shrimp & brats and that potluck broccoli salad with bacon (I am going to make my version with bacon, toasted almonds, raisins, shallots – and the mayo, vinegar, sugar […]
I made this salad on 4th of July – it’s from Plenty, the cookbook from London’s trendiest deli, Ottolenghi. Grilled zucchini, basil leaves, toasted hazelnuts, shaves of Parmesan, olive oil. It was really good freshly made, but I took the leftovers for lunch and the basil tasted like soap – I just closed up the […]
Went for a walk this morning and tried to document the heat wave. I followed the bike path to the cemetery and came back through the neighborhood. Things were pretty deserted – most folks staying inside, sealed up in air conditioning – but there were people out on the bike path trying – like me […]
Watching the golf course fireworks from the DOT parking lot across the road – missing anything good they’re setting off on the ground. Includes motor mouth kid next to us, whose grandparents totally could not cope.