Homemade salsa: Throw tomatoes, cilantro, and jalapenos (preferably from your garden) in the blender with some onions and lime juice. Blend, but leave the mixture a bit chunky. Drain out some of the excessive juice.
Bread Salad (also better with tomatoes and basil from your garden).
It’s Saturday. What have I been up to? To keep up with the abundance that summer’s bounty offers, I have been cooking. Jam and I started the day at the farmer’s market and then headed to the Arcade for a diner style breakfast. Since, I have been cooking up a storm in preparation for both the week and the Levitt Shell concert tonight (one of my favorite things about Memphis). Today, I made the following:
– Mint Tea
– Cucumber Sandwiches with Dill Cream Cheese
– Lime, Honey, Buttermilk Dressing with Green Onions and Basil
Babies, babies, babies. I have a go-to CD for new babies that has needed very little updating over the years. The first copy of this cd was created years ago and I continue to burn and gift when new little baby friends enter the world. There have even been a few adults that have become quite addicted, hence the “For Babies Only” title.
1. Didn’t Leave Nobody But the Baby – Oh, Brother Where Art Thou
2. Godspeed (Sweet Dreams) – Dixie Chicks
3. Goodnight – Aaron Neville
4. Birds and Ships – Billy Bragg and Wilco
5. Can I Stay – Ray Lamontagne
6. January Rain – David Gray
7. Lullaby Baby Blues – Keb Mo
8. California Stars – Billy Brag and Wilco
9. A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall – Jason Mraz
10. All Through the Night – Peter, Paul, and Mary
11. Paper Airplane – Rosie Thomas
12. Pirate Looks at 40 – Jack Johnson
13. Sometimes – Holly Williams
14. Pink Moon – Nick Drake
15. Big Country – Bela Fleck
16. The Shining – Badly Drawn Boy
17. Something Is Calling You – Norah Jones
18. Breakdown – Jack Johnson
19. If No One Ever Marries Me – Natalie Merchant
Farms (and some folks’ gardens!) are starting to pop with produce. These days, my nothing-to-do weekends typically turn in to culinary creations that try and take advantage of whatever has sprouted that week. This weekend I made the following. They were all simple, made mostly with things I had at home since I don’t love filling my weekends with trips to the grocery.
Saturday Dinner
– Herb and Parmesan Ravioli from the market tossed with butter from fridge, basil from garden, and parmesan from the fridge.
– Side of Foccacia from the market.
– Salad with lettuce from my garden tossed with a dressing made of olive oil, honey, red wine vinager, mustard, yogurt, garlic, salt and pepper (all from fridge or pantry).
Sunday Lunch
– BLT made with bacon from the market, lettuce from my garden, basil from my garden, and tomatoes from the market on Foccacia from the market.
– Mint Tea made with Lipton Tea from cabinet and mint from my garden.
– Plum Ice Cream made with plums from the market.
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