Salmon chowder, with Alaskan sockeye, new crop potatoes, bacon, celery, baby peas, scallions, and chives. Served with chive and tarragon cat-head biscuits (with chive butter in addition), and a repeat of the summer slaw.
Spuds, peas, cabbage, carrots, herbs, and alliums from the garden.
Lunch? Whatever this is. Third meal.
Chicken-spinach-artichoke burgers from the freezer, tomato-cuke salad, roasted purple cauliflower.
Rigatoni with Ricotta-Pistachio Pesto - Pesto made with ricotta, parmesan, pistachios, basil, chives and pasta water
I made some idli for dinner tonight:
Looks good, whatever it is.
Tried our hand at a pickleball match before the temps & humidity picked up, but I tweaked my back in the 2nd game, so we only played 3 (I won, tho 
).
Went to Sam’s club for berries & the FM for peaches and corn, then took an almost 2 hour nap 
Heading downtown to meet my lady posse at the gay bar in a bit. We were going to meet up at 7pm bc we usually get food there…… but honestly none of what’s on the menu this week appeals. Roasted nuts, marinated olives & peppers, a grilled cheese (too spoiled with the ones my PIC makes not for $13), a hummus toast (meh), and a LENTIL SOUP. No salad, no gazpacho, no chilled soup. That’s a big fat nope from me, so I’ll be joining my dood who’s meeting with another dude at the bar above the gay bar, which is part of the same restaurant & has a larger menu to choose from — 3 SALADS, for example, and hop down to join the gals at 8pm.
Should be a fun evening 
Taco Tuesday - flour tortillas with chipotle rubbed shrimp on Caesar salad, cotija cheese, and crushed tortilla chips.
Temps were unusually high for outer Cape Cod today - reached 87° with loads of humidity. Today was the Hydrangea Festival garden tour in Eastham. DH volunteered as a greeter in one of the gardens - almost 300 people came through that property. It’s big draw for tourists, and in our town proceeds go to support our library.
So he was going to be hot and tired - we thawed a small meatloaf and had cold sandwiches for supper along with a midwest kidney bean salad from my childhood that I craved. In hindsight, that won’t be on repeat. Drained canned kidney beans, hardboiled eggs, celery, onion, sweet relish and mayo. Maybe it will be better tomorrow. Maybe my ancestors didn’t use canned mushy beans. I dunno. Neither one of us enjoyed it.
Super simples tonight. BF sliced up some tofu with the leftover soy/chili/sesame sauce from last time, and steamed TJs chicken soup dumplings, served with soy & vinegar (sadly, out of ginger. 
) I really love those dumplings.
Chicken and aji verde tacos with onion and cilantro. Corn, radish, avocado, green onion, salad, oo and sherry vinegar dressing.
Jalapeño and cilantro margarita.
I made yo po mian (using mafalda) using garden chard and leftover purple cauliflower, reverse-sear sesame pork tenderloin with hoisin sauce, and side of peanut-sesame cucumber salad.
Root beer floats.
I’ll be right over.
Black Cows from my 50’s/60’s childhood. A&W rootbeer in frosty mugs (If it was payday, we had ice cream and hotdogs) on a tray hooked on the window of my father’s '57 Chevy…
@LulusMom1’s recent trip to Greece has inspired me lately. I ordered some fried calamari and shrimp, which I was jonesing for, after reading the trip reports, and a watermelon feta spinach salad at a neighbourhood restaurant in Toronto on Saturday night, which was a fail for me. 
I was up drinking water all night because I can’t handle the salt in fried calamari anymore. I need to only order fried calamari when I can share the order with a few friends.
Tonight’s dinner used my first eggplants from my garden.
Baked pork meatballs (Cypriots make a pork kefte, I might try following a recipe next time), a yogurt sauce, briam ( Greek equivalent to ratatouille , also called Tourlou Tourlou) , green salad with home-grown lettuce, arugula, green onions , parsley, mint and oregano, roasted carrots and Japanese turnips .
My mom and I would get A&W curly fries and root beer floats at the mall when I was little. 
I still remember when we arrived the first time ever in the US 20+ years ago for our postdoc - we stayed the very first night in a hotel (before looking for something to rent) and we had heard before about root beer and how Americans love it (but it wasn’t available in Germany). The hotel offered a dinner buffet which also had some bottles of A&W root beer and so we had to try it. I have to admit I rarely spit something out because I don’t like it but that was one of the cases where I nearly did - I have tried other root beers over the years (and there are lemonades with many herbs quite popular in Germany like Almdudler which I like) but I still don’t “understand” root beer.
I want to like root beer, and chinotto, but I don’t. I’ll try ordering one, at a restaurant, and after a few sips I give up. The same with the craft cream soda one craft brewery in Toronto serves. I’ve tried craft root beers and different mainstream brands. I also don’t like Dr. Pepper.
I loved Coke, and drank it almost daily in my 20s, until I started drinking coffee at 26. I don’t mind other colas.
Lentil Salad - Beluga lentils cooked in water and in parallel sautéed some onions, carrots, green asparagus and parsley. Dressing made with olive oil, orange juice and zest, apple cider vinegar and mustard.
I had some sweet potatoes about to go bad and didn’t really know what to do with them. I started digging around in the freezer (looking for inspiration) and found a bag of frozen chopped spinach and some shredded Mexican Blend cheese next to it. So, my mind went to rolls. I made up some dough and that was dinner.
Sweet Potato - Spinach - Cheese Rolls brushed with an egg wash.
