I canceled our delivery order for this week. If we need milk or juice, I’ll buy it locally. I’m working through a frig that’s filled to the gills and a cooler out on the deck full of iced tea and sodas.
Last night I took the last two boiled ears of corn, cut the corn off, chopped up 1/4 of a red bell pepper, and added enough chimichurri sauce to coat (I use Tyler Florence’s recipe from Food Network). It was good. On a long platter I placed sliced orange and yellow tomatoes (olive oil, s&p, basil), my cuke salad (on the site) and the corn salad. It was served with grilled beef flap meat with Don’s maple-rosemary-garlic marinade.
There were a few kernels of corn leftover so I made boxed cornbread and included the stragglers. The oven ran too hot then too cold and the resulting bread broke apart rather than allowing itself to be cut. So it’s mine, for breakfast this morning and probably tomorrow.
There are three sweet Italian sausages that I parboiled and I thought of joining them with some ground beef and tomatoes and making a version of Frank Sinatra’s dish (his called for about 1 1/2 cups of olive oil) with pasta.
The other night we had guests to see the fireworks and I was supposed to make a blueberry-lemon trifle. It wasn’t until I got everything together to realize I was already using a huge cooler and the frig was full, and the last time I made trifle was for Jim’s office and it was winter! I stored it, covered, in the garage! I still made my version of Mom’s blueberry sauce and sent the guys out for vanilla ice cream before the fireworks started. It all worked and that’s how the frig will be emptied.
Hope you’re having a great start to the summer and will pass along any recipes we need to know about. Cheers! Dee
Cooking with Dee 