So I had this idea to do a series of summer dinners, featuring “the fleeting tastes of summer”.
The first one was last night. It was quite pleasant – a congenial group – one of my “girls” – a young woman who lived at the co-op dorm where I was the head cook from 1981-1986, when she was 18, and I was 26 – and she brought a long another woman who is wondering if she should keep trying to make it as an artist, maybe get an MFA, or pursue some other graduate degree; a young guy on his own, who turned out to have grown up in Manhattan, across the street from my upstairs renter’s boyfriend; one of my oldest friends; a group of four who’d never been there before – so lots of pleasant conversation.
The menu was:
Pan Bagnat – salad Nicoise in a sandwich – crusty bread stuffed with tuna, tomatoes, cucumbers, and olives – with a no-tuna option for vegetarians (that turned out to be pesto, goat cheese & tomato
Salt & vinegar potato salad
Coleslaw
Rhubarb mousse served with butter cookies
- Mousse in the serving bowl, with whipped cream and blueberries
- Individual serving of mousse
- Swirls in the mixer bowl I used to whip the cream
- Another view of the mixer bowl
- Regular iPhone shot of potato salad
- iPhone polaroid of the potato salad
- Coleslaw
- Pan Bagnat & Tomato Pesto Goat Cheese
- iPhone polaroid of the sandwiches
There was a little too much food – a lot of sandwich, only a dab of coleslaw, and a vat of mousse leftover. I had some of the sandwiches for dinner tonight, and mousse earlier today for second breakfast.
