What's for Dinner, Sat., July 31, 2021

[NJCher]

First course is creamy mushroom soup. It is basically mushrooms and onions chopped, both shittake and baby bella, with chicken broth, then blended. Add sour cream at the end.

I deliberately did not put any herbs or spices in it because I wanted to experiment with each cup using a new set of spice/herb blends that the RG had sent to me for my birthday. They are the Ripert/Sarcarz formulations. I also got the books by each. Should be a lot of fun. Basically their concept is to come up with these spice or herb combos and then in the cookbook you take something simple like a piece of fish or a few roasted carrots and put the spices or herbs on them. This way you can have a dish that's as good as something you'd get in a pricey NYC restaurant, but in your own home and far less expensive.

Plus it's fast!!

Next up is microgreen salad. Much to my surprise, microgreens are now available at Whole Foods through Sal Gilbertie, who I knew when I lived in CT. I used to haunt his herb farm back in those days when I was really into herbs. Microgreens plus goat cheese, toasted pecans (I burnt the first round, grrr), and dried cranberries marinated in orange juice. Spicy honey mustard dressing, but thinned down considerably with 1/2 and 1/2.

After that something I've been wanting for the longest time: lobster mac 'n cheese!!

Blueberry basil kombucha to drink.

Dessert is undecided but might be simply watermelon.

[Yonnie3]

1. Just grazing here

It is a work night for TJ so us guys are on our own.

I've had a salami, cheese and crackers plate. Cheeses were a white Vermont sharp and crumbly and a ordinary sharp cheddar. Crackers were Triscuit. Banana peppers and bread and butter pickle slices to round it off.

I'm going to have more, lots of leftovers plus fruit and veggies are available.

FLFC has chowed down on some mini-cheese burger made from marked down ground beef at the little butcher's shop. It was less than $2 a pound and 75% lean. I've never seen less than 80% there before. The little man apparently likes it fatty! He has just noisily devoured some watermelon cubes followed by walking over his plate scattering it everywhere. He can't see very well so this happens often. I've got some clean up to do.

Lobster mac & cheese seems interesting. I was in Maine from time to time in the '90s for business and had all sorts of lobster dishes but not that.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Scallops stir fry

with the odd combination of beets, beet greens, turnip greens, carrot, broccoli, the last 5 string beans from the garden that the deer didn't eat, bok choy, garlic, fresh ginger. It's sweet from the beets, and healthy.

[lkinwi]

3. Bacon wrapped pork loin with sweet corn

[brokephibroke]

4. It was good

Grilled a strip steak with grilled garden zukes, baked potato, a garden cuke with sour cream and garden tomatoes with salt.

[NJCher]

5. love to hear

about gardeners making meals with their homegrown produce!