Michael and I have been enjoying summer's bounty through our CSA and various gifts from rural/suburban friends. We cook new things almost every night. Michael attributes this to the fact that we don't have cable.
Today we made Greek potatoes, which Michael remembered eating as a child. We looked up the recipe online and based our efforts after this one:
http://www.recipezaar.com/Greek-Potatoes-Oven-Roasted-and-Delicious-87782
Preheat oven to 425. Toss 4 medium sized potatoes (each slivered into 6), 1/4c evoo, 1/2c water, 4 cloves garlic, 1T lemon juice 1/2T mixed herbs (I used thyme and rosemary, oregano is more traditional), salt, and pepper in a casserole dish or pan with sides. Bake for ~1h or until very soft, turning once.
We had these with thinly sliced squash (1 zucchini + 2 pattypan) sauteed with 1T butter and seasoned with basil.
Last weekend we made a hit with beet salad: 3 sliced, cooked beets tossed with dill, feta cheese, thinly sliced cucumbers, thinly sliced celery, oil (1T), 2T sunflower seeds, and vinegar (4T? red wine).
Michael concocted a cucumber salad, apparently a jazzed up version of Russia food: thinly sliced cucumbers, halved grape tomatoes, blue cheese, oil, 1 thinly sliced shallot, red wine vinegar.
3 comments:
A picture is worth 1000 words. I didn't really study it before reading your post, and so when I read about your exploits, I thought, how delicious, how neat, how energetic. Then I examined the picture and my reaction was, OMG, I wouldn't know what to do with all that stuff if it was on my counter. So I was all the more impressed after that exercise in startled imagination. Go you!
Did you get the tomatoes from your box? A farmer out here told me that the east coast had a terrible tomato season - most of them were ruined by blight. Luckily, it was a great year for CA tomatoes, there would have actually been a glut were it not for the east coast demand. So perhaps most of the tomatoes you'll be seeing will be from out here! We got a bunch in our box last week, but I bought more at the farmer's market over the weekend. Turns out CA is bad for one thing, though, blueberries!
They only come in for about a month and are "hella" expensive.
No tomatoes yet =( those were from the store
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