So...whats for dinner?

Open-faced tortillas for dinner.  Ground meat browned with onion and garlic, left-over corn and black beans seasoned with cumin and cayenne pepper.  Chopped avocado and chopped tomato with mayo.  Sour cream.  And whole grain tortillas.  Delicious.

A rainy day here all day.  We bought home-made bread and asparagus at the farmers' market.  Checked out the restaurants for breakfast but they all had lines of people waiting to be seated so we returned to the campground.

If the weather is better tomorrow we'll take the bikes to town and bike the next part of the Heartland Trail from Dorset to Nexis, where there is a pig race. 

Last night was chicken satay, Malaysian style, dal and rice with some javanese pickles. Tonight was "family" dinner. Started last night. I made a rib rub with lots of different flavors. We rubbed that onto ribs to hang out overnight. Today I made potato salad, cole slaw, pickles, and mac & cheese. Then just before dinner, steamed some green beans. The kid was given some burrata and CSA tomatoes so I made a bit of basil oil. Made a platter with all these lovely goods. Meanwhile, Mr. 02143 was manning the grill/smoker. Four hours of smoking and a little bit of mop sauce and dinner was done.

This was worth eating for sure! At the last minute, we mixed up a pitcher of Marqueritas. Perfect meal for the hottest day Boston has experienced in years.

*susan*

Wow, I'm so jealous! After driving home from the farm, I was do tired, i admit it. I drive through , gasp. Um, Taxi Bell. But it was good. LOL, well at least as good as it ever gets. LOL.

Anyone have a tasty recipe low in fat for scallops? I made them the other day (expensive) and they tasted like nothing with my wine lemon sauce. So disappointed!



Thanks, Peggy



PS thanks for the sourdough starter recipe!

Carrie, wow, that is a crew to feed!. I few up with a family of ten. So when we got together with aunts and uncles and cousins, suddenly, there were fifty people. So yeah, I get it. Breakfast done, cleanup, and it almost time to prep for dinner! LOL. Hope you get a bit of rest. Much love to all.

Sitting in laundromat. Good signal in town so called my mother. She was happy with lots of company. Nobody had communicated about food and so one person made seafood gumbo, another catfish courtbouillon, and a third was bringing barbecued ribs!

Tonight will be lemon chicken on the grill, corn off the cob with peppers and onions and sauteed zucchini with onions and tomatoes. Oh how I love summer food.

Wow.  I get where I can't read the posts for a few days and I get *way* behind.  We spent the extended long weekend in Bisbee, Arizona...again at the Inn at Castle Rock. The weather was comparitively nice...95F degrees instead of 115F degrees and hotter. 

I come home and I'm digging around the house and I find....termites....I haven't found any tubes up into the house and the house is a block construction,  so the little buggers may not notice...but...I left a message with an exterminator company.  Hopefully they'll call in the next couple of days. 

Nance...I guess we were reading your mind....same meal here..... Shron is grilling....I've spent the past couple of hours resetting lawn sprinkler heads that aren't working quite right..

Michelle.....enjoy the RV.  It sounds like fun. 

Carrie, that's a huge bunch to feed.  I think I'd be pointing at  few folks and "volunteering" them for at least the cleanup part... :-)

Sharon said dinner is ready...I don't want to keep her waiting....

Eric

Wow Laurie, that sounds like a nearly perfect food weekend!



Tonight we're having grilled chicken quesadillas with fresh pico (jalapenos courtesy of the garden , guacamole, refried black beans. More grilled rainbow peppers and onions into the quesadillas.



I also made a pain de mie today for sandwiches. I've been experimenting with the bread machine, unsuccessfully I might add. I thought it would be a good alternative during the summer when I don't want to heat up the kitchen. But I can't get a satisfactory loaf. Either the crumb is wrong or the loaf collapses or something else and I don't have the patience to fine tune the recipes. Anyway, I dug out my pain de mie pan and let the machine do the kneading and am baking it the old fashioned way.



I got the kaf catalog in the mail today and lo and behold, there was a recipe for a bakers grain sourdough baked in a covered loaf pan. Multi grain bread is one of the things I have been experimenting with. So, this will be my next loaf. It claims to have a "soft, moist, interior and tender crumb." Let's hope there's some truth in advertising here.

Loving all the fun ( and exciting, Michelle) news and great meals.

At outer cape for the week where we had a fabulous seven course tasting menu meal tonight on a deck overlooking busy Commercial St. In P- town. I appreciated all the accommodations the young, accomplished chef made for my allergies.... Super artistic chef!



Our time share has not gotten the wiFi working very well (still!) so I am "phoning" this in. Will keep up with reading but maybe not post so much.



Sounds like all are doing well.... Excellent!

Susan, I have several recipes for pain de mie but the one I use most is Julia child's. I was quite gratified to read that she sometimes used a bread machine to do the hard work in making it.



I'm quite excited today. I got an early birthday present from DH in the form of a new flat bottom wok. What I really like about it is the handle and helper handle. Very useful with my bad hands. I'm hoping I can now get the pan hot enough to really stir fry instead of steam cook like my old one did with the cook ring. I'm in the process of seasoning it now (PITA). Eric, where are you?

Thanks for the advice Susan. Actually, I've been looking at "Breath" on Amazon and will probably end up with it (if not both lol!)  I definitely have patina-envy, but I'm getting a start.  Love the popcorn suggestion!

Tonight I "made" weisswurst and pretzels, both pre-made at the German store, plus a cucumber salad. The shop actually just does the initial boil of the pretzel and freezes them. Then at home you can bake them fresh. Served with Bavarian sweet mustard. A real treat and always enjoyed.

*susan*

I'm here.

I worked 24 hours in two days and I'm tired..but before I sleep..I had to arrange for the horrible, nasty, terrible, rotten, well deserved death of termites.  I was digging in the dirt around the house and I found termites.  A 2 hour inspection by the termite inspector found no evidence of termites in the house, so this will be a pre-emptive strike.

The sourdough was good.  DD ate an entire loaf and a whole stick of reall butter by herself while it was still warm enough to melt the butter. 

My grandmother used to bake every Wednesday.  On Wednesdays my sister and I would clean-up an entire pan of her rolls with butter.  Eric, you reminded me of her.  Thanks.  I still miss her.  She died of breast cancer in 1972.