92! Scratch made fish cakes
Stuffed pepper and poached cod mixed with the leftover potatoes from the fish tacos.
Feta and cucs and tomatoes oh my!
Stuffed pepper and poached cod mixed with the leftover potatoes from the fish tacos.
Feta and cucs and tomatoes oh my!
So i got a box of garlic scapes
Tonight we did all veggie with lemon cucs
Tomatoes with feta and basil
Roasted scapes and onions
Roasted romanesco and onions
We finally ventured to the farmers market last weekend. Our first in a post covid world. They had 8 ball squash waiting to be stuffed.
I used this as my stuffing which worked out
I made a sort of mediterranean inspired salad and cooked the squash with tomato and peppers.
I am constantly taking pictures of food that i see and i have fallen so far behind in sharing lately. Im going to try and do a catch up of the last couple weeks of things that I thought were fun enough to share. Passionflowers are blooming, figs and squash are in season. We are like a week or two away from the Southern California summer cornucopia of ridiculous bounty.
My neighbor at the community garden has a full on passionflower wall growing. I have never had the fruit. I was planning to trellis one in my backyard this year but a young plant wont survive our july vaca so after we return.
The van nuys german deli is sooo close to my house:
Usually i will get two smoked brats, 2 swiss and 2 neurenberger for the 2 of us and simmer in saurkraut and wine…
Head cheese anyone?
Does everyone know that i love marzipan! British cadbury chocolate and marzipan enrobed in dark chocolate are two wonderful things.
Gooseberries!
If you zoom in, you will notice flavors of soy sauce in this chinese whisky
Fresh almonds
Dragonfruit
Banana blossoms
No name whiskey shots for your carry on bag
I thoroughly enjoy stroopwafel and if you have had an am flight on United, you have been gifted with a stroopwafel…not sure of the cocktail i would make with this
Last weekend was a roadtrip to the BH branch of Laduree to get the much coveted Barbie box
And of course view the special promo display dolls
Macaron!!!!!
Its fig season! I have some in the fridge waiting to be covered with cheese and balsamic
Its still peach season
Jim is scoping out his fav variety of strawberry
Tomatoes are breaking in. Next week will be full blown tomato explosion
Look close…bok choi and cress flowers
The aquash in unstoppable now.
So that updates like 2 weeks of non restaurant/non home cooking pics….home tou saw something fun or unique.
Okay….this got posted incomplete!!!
Here is my mise en place for this email inspired idea…romaine, parmesan, homemade dressing, smoked blue cheese, tomato, avocado, bacon, garlic, radish, shishito (that i grew!), cucumber….i took like 4 pictures because this has the red pepper that i removed but didnt have the egg i added, etc
Grilled romaine…yep, i flipped and grilled again
Grilling avocado. They made nice grill marks
This is my first try at a grilled chopped blt salad.
It was good:-)
Tonights cocktail was bubbly rose with some Pama splashed in it.
Holy crap? My plan was to blog my whole dinner which was yummy but last we we hit the palm springs street fair and i bought the shit!
I previously bought cranberry walnut balsamic from the Farmers Daughter from hemet at the palm springs street fair….that rocked
But the cherry is ridiculous….and wordpress just put the pics in reverse order…..and im to tired to change it
We are blessed to have a year round growing season, and we are on the verge of the moment where the most of those riches shine! Saturday at the santa monica third street promenade farmers market, the following are a prelude to the full summer bounty:
Figs! I forgot to take a pic before i cut up the ripe ones…it was a nice basket of 1/2 ripe and half ripe in a day or two
My fav farmers market cheese for years…i got the mozzarella and asiago…dont for one minute think its traditional mozza or asiago…they surely have their own style . Spring hill jersey cheese from nocal.
Lemon cucumbers
Baby red leaf heads
The very first of the tomatoes
Citrus!!!
Cucs abound
Herbs
Its still cherry and peach season
Jim Taylor waits for these puppies all year…high price, small fruit, big taste
One years i will buys these and spend the day shucking them. Can you imagine fresh garbanzos!?!
So tonight the figs will be sharing a plate with goat cheese and a Bordeaux cherry balsamic ibought in palm springs