sunday dinner menu

• honey/thyme/lemon chicken and oyster mushroom gravy
• goat cheese mashed baby red potatoes
• roasted green beans with balsamic glaze
• corn on the cob

Hello, New York. I have come here to eat.

Poussin, sweet corn, fattoush without the pita (Shaun had eaten it all before Auntie Ouma could make the salad), this green sauce of fresh herbs, lemon juice, and anchovies, and this lovely effervescent wine that they brought back from Spain. 

This was the dinner of my first, and hopefully many, weekend eating trips. I'd like to go on eating trips with all of you. We can do the sightseeing thing, the relaxing vacation thing, the explore the area thing, hobknob with the locals thing, shop 'til we drop thing, all of that. It'll be fun, I will photograph, and get a chance to exercise those writing muscles. Hooray!

I hailed a New York cab by myself for the first time tonight. It was thrilling in the “vina, you have been in plenty of cabs, this is not new, oh hush I am alone and carrying luggage, and Penn Station is loud and boisterous, and all of this is exciting” way. I am now going to shower and go to bed, for tomorrow I will be lunching at Eataly. I do, however, have the afternoon and evening free and, though some of that time is earmarked for writing the book, I would love to hang out with the New York folk. Holler at your girl. 

Side note, I have decided to go to Spain next year. To eat.

Tonight

- seared scallops with a rendered bacon/white wine/lemon zest/mushroom/cream sauce.
- grilled steak with roasted baby reds and asparagus.
- arugula salad with simple vinaigrette.
- vanilla bean buttermilk cake with fresh raspberries and whipped cream.

Tonight

Slow-roasted pork shoulder with rosemary/apple butter paste
Smashed and broiled potatoes with scallions and Greek yogurt.
Mixed greens salad with feta and lemon juice.
I might bake some black tea cupcakes. We'll see.

Tonight

Roast rosemary lemon chicken
Potato gratin
Roast carrots with apple butter
Salad?
Milk chocolate crème brûlée. Maybe, maybe, salted caramel popcorn ice cream.
I also made a pitcher of iced tea from that peach black tea I bought in Savannah. Yes.

NYE: the dinner

avocado alfredo

These photos are from June.
JUNE.

avocado alfredo: 
fresh sweet basil
lemon juice
olive oil
avocado
garlic
s&p
and I'm fairly sure we used nuts. Pine nuts? Walnuts? Probably pine nuts.
I don't remember if we used cheese. The addition of dried parmesan would probably be a nice touch.

Avocado alfredo is ten shades healthier than its heavy cream/cheese alternative. Think of fresh pesto with avocado. Try it. You will not be disappointed, unless you're some kind of avocado hater. I'm not so sure we can be friends if that is the case. 

Brought to you by the letter C

Cheddar cheese and club crackers, chocolate cake, chili, cornbread, and cider

bashful Lydia!

Cry-Baby!

As promised, Jessica: What I ate on my 28th birthday

Tomato and cheese omelette with whole grain toast. Coffee.

Fish stick tower because I'm an adult and make wise food decisions like that.

Epoisses cheese, sliced baguette, pistachios, lemon curd and strawberries

Crème brûlée (with chocolate on the bottom!)

Malbec, eggplant, and Betsy's house is haunted?!

 

 

Tonight

- grilled steak. I don't know what kind since I haven't gone to the market yet.
- creamed spinach
- rosemary/thyme roasted potatoes
- asparagus soup
- pound cake with vanilla ice cream and salted caramel

Risotto

arborio rice
black pepper
butter
cayenne
chicken stock
dry white wine
fresh oregano and Genovese basil
kosher salt
oyster mushrooms
peas
shallots
shaved Parmesan
shrimp

Tonight

+ baguette
+ mushroom soup (trumpet, shiitake, portabella)
+ smoked oysters
+ stinky fromage so runny you need a spoon
+ charcuterie
+ a nice Bordeaux
+ whatever entices me at the Redbox

"All I want is the best for our lives my dear, and you know my wishes are sincere"

Beirut

I always get a weird urge to create elaborate meals when I'm home alone. Tonight was orange marmalade & soy-glazed duck, boiled red potatoes w/butter & parsley, and roasted carrots. Natalie had planned to join me but could not in the end. Ah well.

Will now watch Haunting in Connecticut with Michael and my sister. Tomorrow I'll post about tonight's pièce de résistance: oatmeal raisin & toasted coconut cookies (that I made while eating my dinner solo at the kitchen counter, dah hah).