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 container & chucked it down the disposal when I got home. Coulda gone in the compost, just didn’t.
I also grilled a pork roast, and some potatoes, and we ate them to Steve’s special 4th of July mix, that he brought over on his iPod.
We watched Another Earth, to work up an appetite for pie & ice cream – it was rhubarb peach, pictures soon. [well, I never did take the pictures; I thought they;d just look too much like every other pie picture … it was a good enough pie, but maybe a tad too tart, and the crust was a little too short – I threw in not only butter and vegetable shortening, but a little square of cream cheese lurking in the dairy bin in the fridge, too] None of us liked the actor who played the bereaved dad, but now that I look at his IMDB entry, I think it’s because he just wasn’t suited to playing the character he was – a guy with a wife & kid and music faculty at a big university – he’s better in other roles; he’s been in a bunch of TV cop shows, Lost, and horror movies.
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