Food, Again
Readers, and please de-lurk if you’re lurking, do you like the posts on food? I’ve been posting the food on my Facebook page, then again here since it’s such a big part of our summer. But the links and images are work-intensive, so I can skip it if interest is low. Also, I can make photos bigger, so more detailed, though I’ve not done so because they’d take more time to load on screens.
I did not make those. They’re by Sheela from Miel y Leche and came from Mitrebox, on a cupcake Saturday. That’s a blackberry-lime vegan cake and a s’mores cake. The former was good, the latter was tremendous. You can sign up to receive email for the weekly flavors. This week’s are Grilled Peach Mint, Chocolate Curry with Lemongrass Coconut Buttercream and Limoncello.
These bacon-cheese cups were a request by 5yo Drake, who along with 3yo Guppy made them with G. Grod while I went to yoga class. They’re from the Southern Living Kids Cookbook, a gift from the boys’ uncle, and Drake’s current obsession.
Red salad, with WI cherry tomatoes, strawberries, basil, balsamic vinegar, olive oil and WI parmesan. Salad #13 from Mark Bittman’s 101 Salads.
Homely, but tasty and exceptionally healthy and hearty. From Mark Bittman, a savory breakfast: Barley, coconut, oat bran and fried tofu, with soy sauce, toasted sesame oil and fish sauce, topped with a fried egg.
For National Night Out last night, I made a Carrot Cake (lots of carrots to use up this week). The recipe is from Cook’s Illustrated. I added a teaspoon of cardamom, to good effect, I thought.
And I used up almost all of last week’s CSA veg in a variation on Heather’s Quinoa Salad from 101 Cookbooks. I used pearled barley instead of quinoa, added grated carrot and used chopped zucchini instead of corn.
August 5th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
I love the food posts! Especially while I’m trying to make good use of my CSA items too.
No more vegan cupcakes for me, though.
August 5th, 2009 at 10:55 pm
I do like the posts, very much! I can never see the pictures, unfortunately.
August 6th, 2009 at 7:44 am
I like them. Don”t have much time to comment–but the recipes are the best part for me if you find the pictures are too time intensive. Gives me ideas for our csa each week.
August 6th, 2009 at 8:30 am
I also enjoy the food posts. They make me want to dig out my ATK cookbooks and start actually using them!
August 6th, 2009 at 8:51 am
I like the food posts! I do wish the pictures were a little bit bigger, because I’m totally a proponent of “you eat with your eyes first”! I get lots of great ideas from your food posts, which is good for me because we’ve vowed to cook more at home since the honeymoon & wedding (who knew those things were so expensive?
) and I can always use inspiration. I tend to stand in my kitchen pouting, “I don’t know what to cooook”, so it’s helpful to flag recipes I think would be tasty and easy to make!
August 6th, 2009 at 10:27 am
The food posts are great. I often drool and shake my head in envious disbelief. Suck it up and keep them coming.
August 6th, 2009 at 10:47 am
I like the food posts just fine. I can’t see the pictures either because of our draconian work firewall.
August 7th, 2009 at 2:21 am
I love the food posts, agree on larger, more detailed photos. Just makes me feel bad about how uncreative H and I are on things like salads and using up our veg box.
August 7th, 2009 at 8:43 am
You get a pass because you have a newborn, silly, as does Kate F. But some of the summer salads in the Bittman list are good as they don’t involve cooking, just chopping and mixing.
August 10th, 2009 at 5:44 am
delurking…
love the red salad and can’t wait to try it!
love the food posts too, keep em up!
gretchen aka the fashionable foodie
http://www.thefashionablefoodie.com