Cooking pictures!

[Mia]

It's been 34C here for five days, humidity at 80%. Dinner was corn on the cob and a cold pasta salad with asparagus, green onion, garlic, carrot, and celery.

Not my picture and without the tomatoes.

Surprised I was actually able to cook anything, but I made everything ahead of time.

 

[Magna]

It's been 34C here for five days, humidity at 80%. Dinner was corn on the cob and a cold pasta salad with asparagus, green onion, garlic, carrot, and celery.

Not my picture and without the tomatoes.

Surprised I was actually able to cook anything, but I made everything ahead of time.

That pasta salad looks scrumptious, Mia! What a perfect thing to have as part of a summer meal. Thank you for posting the pic. What sort of spices, dressing or seasoning did you put on the salad?

 

[Magna]

When we're busy during the week and nobody has planned much for dinner, I just take a look in the fridge and rustle up something, also known as "frying up the thrash"

Made dirty rice for tonight

Excellent. I like the bowl too. In addition to the scallions and red bits (peppers? ) are the darker things wood ear mushrooms?

 

[Mia]

What sort of spices, dressing or seasoning did you put on the salad?

Fresh dill, sea salt, pepper, sumac, fresh thyme, cilantro and an olive oil vinagrette. On top of mesclun lettuce from my garden.

 

[Magna]

Fresh dill, sea salt, pepper, sumac, fresh thyme, cilantro and an olive oil vinagrette. On top of mesclun lettuce from my garden.

Perfection.

 

[BenderRodriguez]

That looks and sounds delicious, Mia, and hat's off for cooking in hot and humid weather - everything above 25C (77F) is uncomfortable for me and above 30C (86F) is officially a heat-wave and I refuse to cook

Magna: chillies, garlic, scallions, finely grated carrots and shiitake mushrooms that were starting to get a bit dry and rehydrated perfectly in a bit of chicken stock. It's farmers' market day today so yay!

 

[BenderRodriguez]

Since I'm still pretty stressed and agitated and the kids are visiting with their grandparents (allowed here), I want to spend a big chunk of the weekend making barbecue sauce, sourdough bread and dinner, so see you later guys

 

[Karamazov]

^ Happy cooking brother bender.

I’ve got a fruit cake in the oven: if I’m satisfied with the result I’ll post a photo and the recipe somewhere or other

 

[Mary Terry]

When we're busy during the week and nobody has planned much for dinner, I just take a look in the fridge and rustle up something, also known as "frying up the thrash"

Made dirty rice for tonight

It looks good to me! I occasionally make "cream of week soup", using whatever stuff I can find in the fridge. Hubby won't touch it but I like it.

 

[Magna]

Supper tonight:

Blanched julienned turnips, thinly sliced raw onion, toasted sliced almonds, well steamed turnip stalks (I hate to waste anything I grow myself).

In the other bowl, brown rice, a drizzle of shoyu and a hard boiled egg.

Dressing: Toasted sesame oil, shoyu, teaspoon of sugar, rice vinegar, minced fresh ginger, minced pickled garlic, hot pepper flakes and a few dashes of high quality fish oil.

It was all very good!

 

[Ella Spell]

Still waiting on my invite. ^

 

[Magna]

Fruits of my gardening labor: Turnip Kimchi. I just assembled it tonight so it won't be ready for a bit. If you haven't guessed already, I feel like I'm about to turn into a turnip I have so many from the garden. I had to get creative to keep using them.

I also have the food dehydrator going now to dehydrate some dill and some shredded zucchini that I'll store until this winter to use for zucchini bread.

 

[Magna]

Still waiting on my invite. ^

I'll set another place at the table. Come one, come all! Well, one can dream of a fun, peaceful feast attended by fellow autistics.

 

[Ella Spell]

... and Toto too?

 

[Magna]

... and Toto too?

And Toto too.

 

[BenderRodriguez]

Magna: I've been planning for a while now to make kimchi but didn't quite get around yet. Everything you make looks great, have you been cooking since you were a kid or is it a more recent interest?

Karamazov: how did the cake come up?

Barbecue sauce simmering:

An Italian friend is sending me a box of local stuff once in a while (I do the same) and this time I had a fresh truffle and girasoli that needed using and made bruschetta to go with it as an entree:

And, of course, my lovely assistant for the day:

 

[Karamazov]

^ Your cat is beautiful
And you food looks both beautiful and delicious

My cake has turned out lovely, thank you: I experimented with a type of sugar I’ve never used for a fruit cake before, and a different spice mix to normal: I’ve used the blog facility to post both the recipe and a photograph

 

[BenderRodriguez]

Thank you, he rules the house - obviously.

Ah, cool, still getting my bearings here and didn't know about the blogs: I've just seen it and it looks great and you can't go wrong with that awesome mix of spices

 

[Stuart1975]

Dauphinois potatoes

 

[Karamazov]

Dauphinois potatoes

I haven’t had those in years!

Maybe I’ll be lucky and my grandmother will make some for lunch next time I help her in her garden...